Emma’s making a BBC movie right now “Ballet Slippers.” Who cares if she can act? She’s got millions in the bank and aced her college entrance exams.
It’s one thing to be a poor actor and it’s another to be a poor actor and not know it.
Anyway, the English have a different standard that Americans. The people playing the Weasley’s would do well in America whereas Watson and Radcliffe would only do well in Englnd. We would consider the latter “stiff”.
I saw the last movie this week and was disappointed in the acting. The story was pretty good but there was a lot of “going through the motions”. The exception was the person playing Luna who I suspect really is Luna in real life. My son told me after the movie that her father was an Ewok.