John Polson has to thank Naomi Watts for his life. Literally. The man behind Tropfest has revealed how the actress saved his life when they were both struggling actors and he was sleeping in her spare room.
"There's not many people you can say, 'If it wasn't for that person, I'd be dead'. She might be the only one," Polson tells tomorrow night's Australian Story on ABC1.
"I had a futon . . . Basically this thing was full of dust and the very night I'm staying in that room, you know, always a little bit of asthma . . . By probably six in the morning, I couldn't breathe any more. Period. I just thought it would go away. And probably about six, I realised it wasn't, it really wasn't going to go away. I was kind of dying."
Watts says Polson came banging on her door and she thought he was playing a practical joke.
"And I was, of course, half asleep and it didn't take more than a couple of seconds because I saw the lack of colour in his face. He needed me to call an ambulance . . . He was in very, very bad shape," she says.
Polson says he was "totally f---ed" and that he stopped breathing. "They said later [I stopped breathing for] eight minutes, which is kind of problematic," he says.
Polson reveals Watts spent the next four weeks visiting him three times a day.
*My remark: Naomi's first big-screen appearance for a second with a one-word line "Hello!" was in "For Love Alone" in which she played Leo's girlfriend. Leo was played by John Polson, also his acting debut.
"There's not many people you can say, 'If it wasn't for that person, I'd be dead'. She might be the only one," Polson tells tomorrow night's Australian Story on ABC1.
"I had a futon . . . Basically this thing was full of dust and the very night I'm staying in that room, you know, always a little bit of asthma . . . By probably six in the morning, I couldn't breathe any more. Period. I just thought it would go away. And probably about six, I realised it wasn't, it really wasn't going to go away. I was kind of dying."
Watts says Polson came banging on her door and she thought he was playing a practical joke.
"And I was, of course, half asleep and it didn't take more than a couple of seconds because I saw the lack of colour in his face. He needed me to call an ambulance . . . He was in very, very bad shape," she says.
Polson says he was "totally f---ed" and that he stopped breathing. "They said later [I stopped breathing for] eight minutes, which is kind of problematic," he says.
Polson reveals Watts spent the next four weeks visiting him three times a day.
*My remark: Naomi's first big-screen appearance for a second with a one-word line "Hello!" was in "For Love Alone" in which she played Leo's girlfriend. Leo was played by John Polson, also his acting debut.
3 comments:
So nice.
Thank you for Naomi.
I remember that scene. She was about 18, so young and lovely. Already very pretty.
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