Naomi Watts to play landmine campaigner -
Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams
Hollywood Reporter, Oct 22, 2008
Naomi Watts is in negotiations to star in "My Name Is Jody Williams", a drama based on the life of the Nobel Prize-winning campaigner against landmines.
Williams, a strong-willed teacher working for a temporary employment agency, left her life in Washington to pursue an unlikely career in global activism. Almost a decade and a half later, in 1997, Williams won the Nobel Peace Prize for leading an international campaign to eradicate landmines.
Brash and somewhat controversial, Williams famously called President Bill Clinton a "weenie" for not signing the landmine ban.
The Universal project will be written and directed by Audrey Wells ("Under the Tuscan Sun").
Watts last starred in the English-language remake of "Funny Games" and "Eastern Promises."
4 comments:
This is definitely a great role for Naomi.
The sounds really promising, a strong role and an orginal story, that what's we need for a good actress like Naomi Watts.
I think she is going to pick up very good roles for 2009 after giving birth to her second child, and this is just the beginning. Good news indeed.
Here's a link to Jody Williams' Biography:
http://www.kepplerspeakers.com/speakers/speakers.asp?Jody+Williams
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