Naomi, it seems that your character was a devotee to service and sacrifice. Is that the backstory you gave to Helen Gandy? Did you see your character as sacrificing her life?
Naomi Watts: "Yes, I did. Unlike Hoover’s character, there was very little information about Helen Gandy available. All we really knew was that she worked for him for 50 years. She was not married and she devoted her life to her job, and the rest sort of had to be filled in. These were questions of mine in that when I read the script for the first time, I was like, 'Why did she do that?' This was not common for women of that time, to go into her career saying, 'This is all I want,' so she was ahead of her time. That’s an inspiration for all women to see, a woman thinking and moving differently from those around her.
I liked that it was set up, in a way, that perhaps she was going to be a love interest but it just wasn’t who Hoover was despite wanting to please his mother. In terms of Helen Gandy, she wanted that career and she just went after it. She loved serving her country and making those sacrifices and [had] unbelievable loyalty, and that’s what I love about the tone of the whole film. It’s a big subject in the film – the loyalty."
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Thanks.
Thank you for Naomi.
Love the age-marking lines on her face, she is such a natural beauty that ages gracefully.
One of most charming and naturally beautiful women in the world.
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