Naomi Watts talked with French Le Monde (video) and M Magazine World (article) on "Adore"

*video credit: LeMonde

[Feature article (translated from French)]

Naomi Watts, the unexpected

By Thomas Sotinel, M Magazine World

Naomi Watts could stay in the shadows . It is almost . The late thirties , she was still an actress in the disastrous filmography ( 1996 , Children of the Corn IV , Greg Spence horror film) , from Australia to try his luck in Hollywood. The only interesting project which she had participated , the pilot episode of a television series directed by David Lynch, was rejected by ABC. That was in 1999 .

Today, it has delayed his arrival in Paris to promote Perfect Mothers , Anne Fontaine, because she was nominated to the Oscar for The Impossible Juan Antonio Bayona . This is Jennifer Lawrence, who took the statuette , but Naomi Watts did not care. She may be able to claim it next year for her portrayal of Princess of Wales , Diana in the movie she just turned in the direction of the German Oliver Hirschbiegel.......

It only took one night in May 2001, it turns into a star , the night of the screening of Mulholland Drive in Cannes. With money Canal + David Lynch turned his series into a feature film , selected for competition . Overnight , Naomi Watts, who no longer had an agent , was bombarded with requests. " The day after the screening, I was shooting a TV movie in Australia in the middle of nowhere, and I received my box of bouquets from people who refused to see me two days ago ," she recalls .

The actress was immediately fulfilled , turned two pillars of American cinema , Woody Allen and Clint Eastwood without hesitation to put in the hands of Michael Haneke, the most anti- Hollywood filmmakers . Just as it has grown from a Spanish director - Juan Antonio Bayona - for which she played in The Impossible , a courageous mother taken in the 2004 tsunami, the radiant perversity of French Anne Fontaine .

In " Perfect Mothers " Naomi Watts plays Lil , an Australian who has spent his entire life in an Edenic place at the seaside alongside her best friend, Roz , the role played by Robin Wright. The two women were married, each had a son . While boys are 20 years old , Lil Roz and live each an affair with the son of another. A true story, one of the protagonists told Doris Lessing , Nobel Prize for Literature , which has made a new one - The Grandmothers - which was in turn inspired by Anne Fontaine.

Presented at Sundance in Utah , the film has angered a Mormon organization and misunderstanding of some of the spectators : " There was laughter, we realized that people felt ill comfortable , "says Naomi Watts, who immediately asked whether the french public will be more relaxed ," I have this prejudice that the french are more jaded , more " that's life " , "she said laughing. She knew , by embarking on this project, she ran some risk.

Naomi Watts was in Thailand , on the set of The Impossible, when her friend Julianne Moore advised him to read the script . "For a nanosecond , I thought that these women were doing was wrong . Almost immediately I changed my point of view, I understand, I have forgiven them . And the third part of this movement , it was to desire the same thing they do. " Finally , Julianne Moore gave up , and Robin Wright joined the film, which was shot there a year on the west coast of Australia.

It is in this country that the actress grew up. She came with her ​​mother and brother, after the death of his father , Peter Watts, road manager of Pink Floyd. This is where it debuted at the same time one of his best friends , Nicole Kidman. She was uncompromising , probably too : . "I remember refusing a television series, a long-term contract , it was a quality project , not a soap opera And suddenly, I spent a lot of time without work, but I did not want to lock me up . "

For the actress, this role Perfect Mothers was also an opportunity to speak with its own voice, without being obliged to take the focus of another . She found her adolescent intonations ( while for the role of Princess Diana , it rose to its English children ) to play the distraught woman of desire, who does not want to leave his girlfriend while " they can not be with each other , they are not lesbians and yet they are so related . "

She started with a little bravery unconscious, which made ​​him even risking drowning on the set of The Impossible . " It was she who called the shot where she looks in the mirror without makeup ," noted Anne Fontaine, evoking one of the most powerful moments of the film . " This is an extremely prepared actress says the director, it comes with a degree of assimilation of the character that I had never seen before. "

Naomi Watts enjoys doing research before taking on a role . To embody the Secretary to the Director of the FBI in J. Edgar , Clint Eastwood , she read all of the testimony of the latter before the commission of inquiry - and she used it to build the loyal wife to blindness, " which still has the blood on their hands . " This concern for precision has led to deny three times the role of Diana : "I knew I was not the right size , I was too small, I did not have a good nose importantly , everything. the world understands who she was. What makes me mad . I searched the writers too, and I have not found a way to interpret it. "

As if to prove that it will never be quite where we expected , Naomi Watts turned in late 2011 , a small American independent film, Sunlight Jr., the role of woman who lives "just on the threshold of poverty , as a good part of America . " If his schedule of mother allows him ( her two son , whose father is the actor Liev Schreiber, have 4 and 5 years), it will start in the deserts of Morocco and Jordan to rotate one and terrifying - - the most demanding directors of contemporary cinema , Werner Herzog.