DHAKA: Actress Emma Watson says ‘Harry Potter’ was a ‘huge burden’ for its directors.

The actress played Hermione Granger in the wizard saga, and she admitted the filmmakers across the series - Chris Columbus, Alfonso Cuarón, Mike Newell and David Yates - all faced a huge amount of pressure.

She told the Mail on Sunday newspaper’s Event magazine, ‘I do know what it takes’, reports contactmusic.com.

‘Each of the ‘Harry Potter’ directors looked as if they had aged about 10 years by the time they’d finished. It`s a huge burden to carry.’

Her experiences working on the eight movies - adapted from JK Rowling’s seven-part book series, means she sympathised with the task facing ‘Noah’ director Darren Aronofsky on the biblical blockbuster.

She said, ‘Darren doesn’t shave during films, so there was this kind of dilapidation that happened throughout, where by the end of it he looked like this mad caveman’.

Watson, who stars in the film as Ila, admitted she wasn’t sure about taking on the role until Aronofsky laid out his vision for her.

She explained, ‘To be honest, the idea of making a film of Noah seemed really cheesy to me - the dove and the rainbow the two-by-two ... Darren is the lord of darkness and grittiness’.

BDST: 1625 HRS, MAR 24, 2014