This photo, taken on March 13, 2017, shows actress Emma Watson attending the New York special screening of Disney’s live-action adaptation “Beauty and the Beast” at Alice Tully Hall in New York City. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP)
Emma Watson has chosen the City of Light as the place to hide copies of Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale.”
In a tweet on Wednesday, the “Beauty and the Beast” star played another role—this time as a real-life book fairy—to lucky Parisian bookworms. In partnership with the charity group Book Fairies, Watson hid 100 copies of the 1985 novel across several spots in Paris.
“I’m hiding copies of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ in Paris,” Watson tweeted in English and French, alongside an image of the book, which bore a sticker of her online feminist book club Our Shared Shelf.
I'm hiding copies of The Handmaid's Tale in Paris! Je cache des copies de La Servante Ecarlate dans tout Paris! #OSSParis @the_bookfairies 📚 pic.twitter.com/SvwjYqm1G3
— Emma Watson (@EmmaWatson) June 21, 2017
A copy of The Handmaid's Tale has just been left… well… here! Go go go! Alle alle alle! #OSSParis #ibelieveinbookfairies #OurSharedShelf pic.twitter.com/R82ux9Z0Fv
— The Book Fairies (@the_bookfairies) June 21, 2017
Two lucky finders of The Handmaid's Tale in Paris were also lucky enough to meet Emma on the red carpet for #TheCircle! #OSSParis 💚 pic.twitter.com/jmCS3nFL9D
— The Book Fairies (@the_bookfairies) June 21, 2017
Watson, 27, was also in Paris for the red carpet premiere of her recent movie “The Circle,” which also stars Tom Hanks and John Boyega.
Last November, Watson morphed into a book Samaritan when she gave away copies of Maya Angelou’s “Mom & Me & Mom” in the New York City subway and London Tube, in collaboration with Books on the Underground. Gianna Francesca Catolico /ra
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