Why Did Emma Watson Take 'Beauty and the Beast' But Pass on 'Cinderella'?

Hey, all you folks who are overjoyed that you're about to see Emma Watson play Belle in Beauty and the Beast: Did you know she turned down the part of Cinderella in another of Disney's recent live-action remakes? (It went to Lily James, of Downton Abbey.) 

That said, Watson didn't know Beauty was on the horizon when she said no to the part of the glass-slippered woman who She's All That–ed her way into storybook history. "But when they offered me Belle," Watson tells Total Film (via E! News), "I just felt the character resonated with me so much more than Cinderella did."