'Perks of Being a Wallflower' stars just enjoyed 'hanging out'
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Emma Watson and Logan Lerman star in "The Perks of Being a Wallflower." -
Logan Lerman stars in "The Perks of Being a Wallflower." -
Logan Lerman stars in "The Perks of Being a Wallflower."
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In case you were a little bleary eyed over your Breakfast Smile platter, that really was Emma Watson at the Eat'n Park, winding down after a long day of filming.
It was one of her haunts -- along with the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Bethel Park, which she called home -- for part of the spring and summer while filming "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" in Pittsburgh.
"The shooting schedule's been kind of crazy. It's such a great group of people, and we all got so close that we mainly just hang out at the Crowne Plaza -- I'm serious -- and we play music," she said in late June in Peters Township.
(Summit Entertainment just released the first photos from the movie set to arrive in theaters in 2012.)
"Pretty much everyone that's part of the cast is musically talented in some way, so we spent most of our evenings playing music and just talking and just being silly. I've been to Eat'n Park a few times. A bunch of times, actually."
She would usually go after filming when it was late and the place was quiet. "I haven't had too much time to do anything but everyone's been so friendly," she said.
The 21-year-old plays high school senior Sam in the movie version of the novel about Charlie, a brilliant but sensitive 15-year-old who pours into letters his feelings about first-time emotions and experiences, perceptive observations about the people around him and, eventually, heartrending memories that surface.
Logan Lerman stars as Charlie and the cast also features Nina Dobrev as Charlie's overachieving older sister; Dylan McDermott and Kate Walsh as their parents; Ezra Miller as Sam's stepbrother, also a senior; Mae Whitman as a "Rocky Horror Picture Show" enthusiast who asks Charlie to a Sadie Hawkins' dance; Johnny Simmons as a closeted jock; and Paul Rudd as an English teacher.
Author Stephen Chbosky, an Upper St. Clair native, is directing the film and wrote the screenplay.
First Published October 10, 2011 12:00 am
