By Hollie McKay, Nov 01, 2010, FoxNews.com
In her latest, real-life inspired drama, “Fair Game,” Naomi Watts takes on the White House – and hopes Americans will take away a lesson from the film’s plot.
Watts plays Valerie Plame Wilson, the former CIA covert operations officer married to former Ambassador Joseph Wilson (played by Sean Penn), who made headlines in 2003 when her identity as an operative was exposed, reportedly in retaliation for her husband’s New York Times article concluding that rumors of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq were exaggerated.
Plame’s outing sparked a media storm known as “Plamegate,” leading to questions about the involvement of then-Vice President Dick Cheney and others in the Bush White House, and ending with a perjury and obstruction conviction against Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis “Scooter” Libby.
The case is now long over, but Watts suspects the film will rile up its viewers nonetheless.
“It is supposed to get under your skin; it was terrible what (Plame and Wilson) went through. To me, what was compelling is that both had strength in their convictions. They went through the most horrible fight you can imagine and they stood by their truth and managed to stay together,” Watts told Pop Tarts, adding that the film’s message is that everyone should “stand up and say the truth.”
“I am inspired by Valerie, and I can relate to her," Watts said, "but I definitely don’t have the strength she has. I don’t know many people that could take on that kind of fight and not cower or lose their marriage.”
2 comments:
Beautiful Naomi. Beautiful story.
Thank you for Naomi.
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