Naomi Watts has a new interview and photospread with Net-a-Porter magazine. For a magazine from a shopping site especially, they always kill it with their in depth profiles and beautiful fashion editorials. Naomi’s photos feature her decked out in white and cream-colored clothing, looking fresh and ethereal. She gives a lot of good quotes too, and I left out some below so I would suggest you read the article if you’re a fan like me. She said that her kids don’t watch her movies because she let her youngest watch a clip from King Kong and he freaked out thinking she was in danger. I don’t think most of her films are appropriate for little kids anyway, her movies can be dark. She also explained that she prefers it that way and that she likes those type of roles. Here are some other things she told Net-a-Porter:
On why she stuck with acting despite setbacks
I tried to find a way to extricate myself many times, and I couldn’t. I couldn’t let it go. Firstly because I knew I loved it, and I knew deep down that I did have something, even though I was being told that I had nothing.
On the roles changing to reflect her age
The longer the life, the richer it gets, and the [movie] roles generally reflect that. Mid-forties, you’ve accumulated a fair amount of experiences – tragedies, good things, bad things, divorce, loss, things like that – and those make for good stories to tell. Although, your kids start getting older and older and older in movies to the point that it’s like, please! But, hey, that is the industry that we live and work in, and I am not going to get caught up in getting bitter about that.
On the wage gap and female filmmakers
There are films I’ve worked on where I’ve been asked to work at such a low fee when I know the leading man is working at a proper-sized fee, and it’s really upsetting. I went through 10 years without working with female filmmakers, and the good news is that lately I have worked with quite a few… Voices are being heard.
Her friendship with Nicole Kidman
We’re busy people that live in different places. The thing about Nic and I is that we have so many years of history now, that even after big gaps, we just take up where we left off. We know we have limited time together, so we go strong; we cover big topics in a really limited amount of time. It’s just like, boom, we’re back.
On her family with Liev Schreiber
It’s all constant negotiation and seeing how things go. [We are inspired] inspired by each other, and I think there’s great respect for one another’s work. He’s got major [acting] chops and he’s incredibly bright and funny. I just love his mind.
As far as the wage gap, can you imagine being told that the film is being made on a shoestring and “would you just do us this favor?” (I’m assuming that’s how it goes) and then learning that the man you’re playing opposite is getting a huge salary? I bet that happens all the time and that actresses haven’t talked about it due to legitimate fear of being blacklisted. At least it’s finally a conversation.
When Watts mentioned divorce as a life experience in her mid 40s my spidey sense started tingling, but I checked her IMDB and she’s playing a single mom in The Life of Henry (also starring 9 year-old cutie Jacob Tremblay) so she’s likely talking about a recent role. Watts has been busy. She’s of course currently promoting her role in the third Divergent movie, Allegiant, but I’m going to give it a pass until it hits cable. It’s got a miserable 10% on Rotten Tomatoes. It will make bank anyway, those movies always do, but this one seems to have suffered some from word of mouth. It “only” made $29 million this weekend, down about 44% from the opening weekends of the other two films.
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