Emma Watson plays Belle in the live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, due out next March Ale Russian is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023.

When we first learned that Emma Watson was set to play Belle in Disney’s live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast, we couldn’t think of anyone better. After all, the bookish princess is one ...

Emma Watson has spoken extensively about her costume designs for Belle in Beauty and the Beast. The actor was keen to ensure that her character’s wardrobe was fit for an “active princess ...

Salma Hayek as Frida Kahlo? Ideal. Emma Watson as the bookish, sensible, apparently newly feminist Belle in Beauty and the Beast? Right on. But in a new interview, Watson has revealed that she ...