--- title: Emma Watson, Lin Manuel Miranda Beatbox, Rap Freestyle description: Emma Watson beatboxes while Lin Manuel Miranda freestyle raps about equal pay for He for She the UN Women gender equality campaign. canonical: https://time.com/4263187/emma-watson-lin-manuel-miranda-hamilton-musical/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-17T18:22:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:30:59.448Z og:title: Watch Emma Watson Beatbox While Lin-Manuel Miranda Freestyles About Equal Pay og:description: And she sorts 'Hamilton' characters into Hogwarts houses og:url: https://time.com/4263187/emma-watson-lin-manuel-miranda-hamilton-musical/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Emma Watson Beatbox While Lin-Manuel Miranda Freestyles About Equal Pay twitter:description: And she sorts 'Hamilton' characters into Hogwarts houses twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Emma Watson Beatbox While Lin-Manuel Miranda Freestyles About Equal Pay  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Mar 17, 2016 6:22 PM CUT  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Mar 17, 2016 6:22 PM CUT Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator of the hip-hop-themed _Hamilton_ musical, recently freestyled about the importance of gender equality while _Harry Potter_ actress and United Nations Ambassador Emma Watson dropped a beat for him. Miranda shared two video clips on his Facebook Thursday, showing the freestyle as well as a clip of Watson sorting Hamilton characters into Hogwarts houses. The clips were filmed earlier this month around International Women’s Day to promote “HeforShe,” a UN gender equality campaign that Watson helps promote. Beatboxing on camera was new, frightening territory for Watson, but as soon as Miranda assured her that he is a feminist, she seems to have felt empowered enough to give it a try. And while the effort might not have earned her top marks at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, it didn’t throw off the rap. Watson was more in her element when she put on her “Sorting Hat” to “sort” actors into Hogwarts houses — specifically, cast of Miranda’s Grammy-winning Broadway show. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4263187/emma-watson-lin-manuel-miranda-hamilton-musical/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4263187/emma-watson-lin-manuel-miranda-hamilton-musical/"},"headline":"Watch Emma Watson Beatbox While Lin-Manuel Miranda Freestyles About Equal Pay","datePublished":"2016-03-17T18:22:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:30:59.448Z","description":"And she sorts Hamilton into Hogwarts houses","url":"https://time.com/4263187/emma-watson-lin-manuel-miranda-hamilton-musical/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4263187/emma-watson-lin-manuel-miranda-hamilton-musical/","name":"Watch Emma Watson Beatbox While Lin-Manuel Miranda Freestyles About Equal Pay"}}]}] ```