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| It's weird that there are so many remakes out at the moment. We're run out of new ideas, which is sinful, and we're going to burn out. Naomi Watts As new movie remake of King Kong in which she stars is about to be released, December 2005 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. Naomi Watts Oh, I'm definitely a wild child. Naomi Watts Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering. Naomi Watts 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.! Naomi Watts (on why not having an Oscar yet doesn`t faze her) The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That`s the little girl in me that will never grow up. (on her early career) There`s a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they`re wearing. I`m not gonna act all ashamed of it. There`s a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work. Even during my most intense scenes with Sean Penn (in 21 Grams (2003)), we found ways to have fun. Sure, I have my dark moments, but I`m the girl you`ll see driving down the highway singing to Blondie. I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it`s always the darker stuff. (on the usual dark roles that she is known for) I`m not this dark, twisted person. Yes, I have my demons and this is my way of exorcising them. It gets them out - and better out than in. Actually, I think that it`s the comedians who are the darkest people on the planet, because they think life`s just bloody hilarious. I`m a tomboy now. I always wanted to fit in with my brother`s group, so I climbed trees and played with lead soldiers. But I`m a woman`s woman. I never understood women who don`t have woman friends. Every time I dress up to go somewhere, I say this is who I am: like, I feel like a Russian hooker tonight. A long time ago, I put on a Stella McCartney top with a huge amount of feathers, and I had really black eye makeup and stringy hair. My mom was like, `That top`s not working`. But that`s what I looked like, a Russian hooker. I`ve had people who`ve seen 21 Grams say, `Wow, you`re so brave to be looking like that`. This shocks me. I think that`s what an actor`s job is, to lose yourself in a role. Instead of thinking `how can I slow the ageing process?` I think `how can I bend the rules?` Every year you add to your life, you`re going to add a different experience to your face. (on one of her first gigs) That ad recently turned up in a magazine in Australia. My head is in my hands as I`m sitting at as desk, thinking, `When can I start using tampons?` I was quite old, but I was supposed to look 12. To be appreciated or recognized is everything to an artist, but to be placed in a category where judgment occurs is awful, and yet we are all liars if we can`t admit that we haven`t all chased it or dreamed of it, even just a little bit. I always love being in the company of women. It`s all about good conversation and great wine. You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have. Every time I`d think to book a ticket to leave L.A., something would come up-even just a three day job or something. That was enough to keep me invested. I still pinch myself when a certain director calls and says, `Would you like to read my script?` I don`t take any of it for granted because I struggled for so long. When I had dark hair I definitely felt that I was more anonymous. I don`t think I`m really the go-to girl for that sort of cheery popcorn movie. I`ve done that little bit of lightness in King Kong, and I Heart Huckabees was definitely goofy, but I just don`t connect that well to romantic comedies because they`re usually so formulaic and not really based in truth. (on moving frequently when she was younger) The consequences are that you fear and dread being abandoned. You get a little tougher, and it`s more difficult for you to become intimate. The pros are that you can adapt to any situation and that you`re open to new surroundings. A lot of people get stuck in their ways, but I embrace change. Yeah, I suppose I am ordinarily drawn to the darker stuff. You won`t find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don`t speak to me. People don`t come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I`m this dark, twisted, miserable person. Yes, I`ve had six great years of being in a position where I can pick and choose a bit, but it`s not like I suddenly feel so calm and relaxed about that. Having spent a large portion of my life with a constant struggle and trying to find ways to make it work, that`s what sticks with me. (on the struggles of her early career) 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. I keep saying to myself, Oh, God, I`m sick of playing these dark, harrowing roles. I want a big paycheck, so put me in some dumb romantic comedy any day. 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. 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. For the record, I am actually British as well as Australian. People always think I`m Australian but I`m happy for the Brits to claim me back. I`m offering myself up. It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself `give it 5 years, there`s no way I`ll be here after that if it doesn`t happen`. Cut to ten years later! ([after being asked if it was hard to do a love scene with a woman in the film Mulholland Dr. (2001) It`s always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, `Don`t grab me there: That`s where my cellulite is`! 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. |
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