by Donna Freydkin, USA TODAY
Dec 5. 2012
Here's the thing about Naomi Watts.
In a sea of actresses with immobile faces, puffed-up cheeks and inflated lips, she looks — normal.
That's to say, she hasn't had any work done.
"There are days I feel I'm 100 years old and I'm an inch away from doing something," admits Watts, 44, who's an awards contender this year for the searing drama The Impossible.
But mostly, she's OK with it.
Watts recently shot the drama called, for now, Two Mothers, for filmmaker Anne Fontaine. In the film, which is going to Sundance next year, she plays the mom of a 20-something. "This is going to change things," admits Watts, who's perfectly fine with no longer being an ingenue.
A career, she adds, "has to be reinvented all the time."
Fontaine urged Watts to stay natural. "She was like, 'Don't ever, ever get anything done.' You can't re-light a strange face,'" says Watts. "So that's my thought for the day."
2 comments:
Admirable.
This is what she has said: "I need a face natural so as to be able to play my roles." Wow, this is the girl!
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