Naomi Watts

Naomi Watts

Actress

Naomi Watts is an acclaimed actress known for her powerful performances in films like 'Mulholland Drive' and 'The Impossible,' exploring themes of vulnerability and authenticity.

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Born
September 28, 1969
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"I got knockback after knockback at auditions. Just before ‘Mulholland Dr.’ my agent told me I was so intense I was freaking people out. She told me I was a brilliant actor but the feedback was that I made people feel uncomfortable because I was so nervous and intense. I just sat there and blubbed. My mum was staying in LA at the time and I went to her and said: ‘I just can’t do this. I’m not cut out for it.’ She just said: ‘Don’t believe a word people say about you. Forget them.’"

Believe Cutting People
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"In your 20s - and these are generalizations of course - I feel like I didn't care about as many things or as many people, or even myself, as much. There's more recklessness and more ruthlessness; you're not as considerate of how things land with other people I think."

Thinking Land People
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"Liev cares about a lot things. Israel is one of them. We had the good fortune of going there a couple of years ago. To share that experience with him was a great pleasure."

Couple Israel Years
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"Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets."

Mother Teenager Thinking
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"If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will."

Change Hollywood Way
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"The use of violence in movies is a subject that's worth addressing. I'm not standing on a soapbox or wagging a finger, but I'm interested in those subjects for sure."

Use Soapbox Violence
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"On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength."

Talking Red Stuff
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"There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!"

Creativity Humor Vacuums
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"I go to a dance class myself called BBS - Body By Simone - its little mini dance routines and I am often the oldest person in the room although I forget that. I'm fairly fit."

Class Body Littles
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"I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left."

Sexy Self Labels
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"I love being outside with trees and water, lying down somewhere or walking. I do transcendental meditation, which keeps me calm and steady."

Lying Love Is Water
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"Hotels are temporary people storage, no matter how big the boxes are. Remember that."

People Matter Remember
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"What you want, as an actor, is a great leader. I can't bear it when I work with a director who is wishy-washy and says, "What did you think?""

Thinking Leader Directors
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"At seventeen most people get their ears pierced or get a tattoo or something slightly taboo. That is what I love about Rodrigo Garcia, he's not conventional. He's someone who sees people in extraordinary ways, and forgives them for being such."

Tattoo People Forgiving
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"I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff."

Drama Book Stuff
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"My mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up."

Drama Class Way
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"When I had dark hair I definitely felt that I was more anonymous."

Dark Hair Dark Hair
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"Noah Baumbach writing is really wonderful. I think the way he plays out each character with a unique voice is really impressive, and rhythmically his dialogue works."

Writing Character Thinking
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