When we went to visit, it was even more surreal and bizarre than I could have imagined."Showing America - "real" America, not the glossy Hollywood version - is what Bubble and the next five films are about. All will be shot on Hi-Definition (HD) cameras; each will be filmed quickly, with a small crew (Bubble was shot in 18 days with a crew of six); and each will "star" non-actors who, with Soderbergh's help, will write their own script.The first of these six features proved compelling when it was shown at the Venice Film Festival last month. It's a weird love triangle played out in a factory making plastic dolls.Soderbergh was looking for a setting that would ignite his imagination, and the world of plastic limbs, whirring machinery and shiny eyeballs sounded a good bet "I found a doll factory in Ohio. There are things I get to do as a film-maker in those movies that I can't do anywhere else, and it's fun.

But I need to go and make something smaller, something more still, afterwards."Bubble is the first of six low-budget films Soderbergh and producer Gregory Jacobs will make over the next five years. One moment he is pushing technical boundaries to the limit on Traffic (shooting on a digital camera, the first time a feature on this scale had been shot on digital video) and interlinking three different narratives, each shot in its own colour (Benicio Del Toro's Mexican section in a hazy yellow, Michael Douglas's storyline in cold blue); the next he's delivering a perfect superficial money-spinning bland blend for Hollywood in Ocean's Eleven and Twelve. The latter is not something he apologises for "I love making movies like that. When was Steven Soderbergh's moment? Was it in 1989, when he gave us Andie MacDowell, her husband, her sister, a guest and a video-tape recorder in the Sundance- and Palme d'Or-winning sex, lies and videotape? Was it in 2000, when he competed against himself in the Best Picture category of the Oscars, beating Erin Brockovich with Traffic? Or is it now, throwing budgets and actors out of the window for his new feature Bubble, which is showing at the London Film Festival? It is impossible to claim a film, a moment, as definitive - and that testifies to Soderbergh's breadth and versatility as a film-maker. She turned into someone that a lot of people can identify with. She's a great role model."But the exam and job worries of many teenagers seem to have eluded the actors. Watson said: "There are so many scripts and they are fantastic. I think I would like to do something different, maybe something smaller."Radcliffe will not commit to playing the wizard in all the succeeding films: "I'm definitely doing the fifth, but after that who knows? I'm not absolutely confident that I'm doing them all.".

it continues."Emma Watson says of her role as adolescent Hermione: "I'm so close to her that I feel that I don't have to act any more It seems like I'm barely doing anything sometimes. "It makes it easier to play Harry because I've been going through all the hormone stuff like Harry has so it's fresh in my mind In fact. "For me, I only feel famous for two days a year and that's at the premiere." Radcliffe, who was 11 when he first played the role, said it was good not to be "just a child actor" anymore. He said: "We can make our own decisions - in collaboration with Mike [Newell, the director], of course."He says he can identify with his character, who has his first kiss with another pupil at Hogwarts in the fourth film. When Daniel Radcliffe first appeared as Harry Potter five years ago, he liked watching the World Wrestling Federation.