Emma Watson To Star In South American Political Thriller

'Harry Potter' actress Emma Watson, who recently received standing ovation for her speech on feminism and gender equality at the U.N., has signed on to star in a South American political thriller, "Colonia," according to reports.

The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is reporting that Watson has been cast opposite Golden Globe award winner Daniel Bruhl in the political thriller. Watson and Bruhl are set to play the role of a young German couple, Lena and Daniel. This movie is set during the Chilean military coup of 1973.

Oscar award winning director Florian Gallenberger is also associated with this project. The shooting of this film is going to take place in Luxemburg, Germany and South America. The filming is scheduled to wrap up by this year-end.

The producers of "Colonia" have said in an announcement that the principal photography on the film has started, THR reports. According to the film synopsis, the German couple "become entangled in the violence which led to the overthrowing of the democratically elected president Salvador Allende." The secret police of army chief and dictator-to-be Augusto Pinochet abduct Daniel. It is Lena who tracks him down to a "sealed-off area called Colonia Dignidad ('Dignity Colony'), led by preacher Paul Schäfer."

"However it soon transpires that the commune is being used as a torture and detention center from which few people ever leave," according to the synopsis, as published by THR.

In another Watson story of this week, a 15-year-old boy Ed Holtom recently wrote a letter after he watched Watson's speech at the U.N. This letter was first published in The Telegraph and has since gone viral. He begins the letter by saying that he saw Watson's speech and that he agreed with everything she said. He expresses his disappointed that his class-mates were not aware about the issue. Also in his letter, he describes feminism, talks about gender stereotyping and suggests how gender equality can be achieved. He ends his letter by saying, "we must not let gender define us."

Meanwhile, Taylor Swift has praised the young actress for her speech at the U.N. Huffington Post has quoted the actress as saying, ""I wish when I was 12 years old I would've been able to watch a video of my favorite actress explaining in such an intellectual, beautiful, poignant way the definition of feminism because I would've understood it, and then earlier on in my life I would have proudly claimed that I was a feminist because I would have understood what the word means."