


But a union with a spouse is what Meg wants most in her heart. “ There’s this idea that in order to be a feminist you need to reject marriage.

“ What was really important to me about playing Meg is that I think her desire to be a mother and a wife is a feminist choice,” Watson explains. Emma Watson in Columbia Pictures’ LITTLE WOMEN.” That’s what excited Emma Watson about the role. Meg may be the most traditionally maternal of the sisters, but she also is a headstrong perfectionist who knows exactly who she is and what she wants. Portraying the March sisters Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth, the film stars Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen, with Timothee Chalamet as their neighbor Laurie, Laura Dern as Marmee, and Meryl Streep as Aunt March. In Gerwig’s take, the beloved story of the March sisters-four young women each determined to live life on her own terms-is both timeless and timely. Writer-director Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) has crafted a Little Women that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott, and unfolds as the author’s alter ego, Jo March, reflects back and forth on her fictional life. Emma Watson in Columbia Pictures’ LITTLE WOMEN.īritish actress Emma Watson (the Harry Potter films, Beauty and the Beast) plays Meg, the eldest of the March sisters, in Columbia Pictures’ Oscar-winning drama, Little Women (in Philippine cinemas February 19).
