Queen of remaks and twice the nominee for the Oscar premium, the best friend of Nicole Kidman and the mysterious beloved of the deceased Hit Ledger, a true Englishwoman and a real Australian - who Naomi Watts?
- Naomi, good afternoon! Australians sincerely consider you to be yours, however, as the British. Put the point in this confrontation of nations, please ..
- (laughs.) I am from England. Born in County Kent. When I was four years old, my mother and my brother moved to Australia.
- Cool changes in the life of the family. Because of which?
- It all started trite: Mom with dad divorced. I was very baby, I remember little, I only know that my father worked with the Pink Floyd group, was their sound engineer. Of course, with all the resulting - nomadic lifestyle, rock and roll in full growth. When parents diverged, after a while dad died from overdose. Well, mom ... Mom always loved bad guys. Even married again. Grandma and Grandfather were worried about our fate with Ben (Naomi had a brother, Benjamen Watts, a famous photographer. - Approx. Aut.). In the end, mom and grandmother decided that the family is time to reunite. I was fourteen when we left England.
- You had to go through the movement not in the easiest period of life - teenage. Wouldn't you ruined because of this relationship with your mother, with a brother?
- With Ben, we always had warm, wonderful relationships. As for mom ... Sometimes I was very sad. But I never experienced a lack of love. My mother is a man prone to demonstrative behavior, with difficult fate, with this sincerely loving and gentle.
- They say, it is thanks to Mrs. Watts, did you become an actress?
- The first lessons of the drama gave me, it is. Forever I remembered my impression when I saw my mother on stage. Well, and then she began to study with me - just we then moved, at fourteen. Now it seems that it was her way to cope with my hard age and even distract a little from youthful problems and difficulties.
In the role of a former drug addict from the film "21 grams" directed by Alejandro Inaryrit
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- That is, you are one of those who knew from the very beginning where and why go, and moved to a strictly given direction ...
- But not guess. For nothing, our children's games with mom did not bring me, and for some time about the acting I forgot. I tried to become a model and even went for this purpose to Japan. The worst experience that I was! Since then, I have developed fear of the camera and clusters of people, - imagine? How with such a phobia, I generally began to act?
- Indeed, how?
- Between the careers of the model and actress was another short moment in journalism - worked as an editor of a fashion magazine. It worked properly, but he felt that he did not go there anywhere, where I was attracted. And at some party, my familiar director offered me to come to the samples of the film "Flirt" - that very, with Nicole Kidman. Then it seemed to me that it was all, you know, drunken conversations and promises of anything. But I was still on listening. Since then, Nicole is my best friend. Well, acting is my profession.
"I know that then, at the beginning of the nineties, you were offered to become a star of some Australian TV series. But you refused. Boldly for a beginner actress!
- rather naive. (Laughs.) Everyone, literally everyone said that I was crazy. But I felt my great young alarm (smiles), that if I agree to this, two or three years stuck in the "soap" and I say goodbye to the reputation of a serious actress. And decided to do it even more naive and desperately - went to Hollywood.
"It's amazing, because the same does your heroine Betty from" Malkolland Drive "directed by David Lynch. Throwing and tormented, trying to become an actress ...
- The surroundings constantly remind me of this, even though I do not pay attention to these mysterious and sometimes mystical coincidences. You know that by Malkolland Drive I rode almost ten years, trying to remove tension from unsuccessful samples or diluted auditions? For almost ten years I did not go out, and here Mr. Lynch glorifies me with his film with such a speaking name!
In the iconic image of the King Cong girl with Adrien Broad
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- Do I understand correctly that from Australia in Hollywood you, in fact, went to nowhere?
"I was young and naive, I promised a lot, and how you remember, one such promise already worked. It seemed to me that the world is waiting for me. I sincerely believed in all that flattering, which poured on me. But when I, filled with hopes, broke into Los Angeles, the city of Angelov met me more than cold. Those who called were not so interested in me.
- But still you decided to stay ...
"I knew that in Australia they would take me, I was where to return, but I could not betray myself and my dream. But for this decision, I paid for several years my happy, perhaps my life - the days stretched over the days, I went to the soul to work, once at once put the soul, received refuses and looked at some trance, and more and more. David Lynch helped me get out of my sink. Only imagine - years of failure and collapse. My spirit was broken, my hopes have long collapsed. I stubbornly worked on the films that I did not like. I lived in Hollywood - the most surreal place in the world, which is trying to your soul, seriously. In a word, my mental, and the physical condition at the time of the meeting with the Lynch was far from the ideal.
- They say David Lynch is one of the most difficult and hard to communicate directors. Did you feel it?
- What a nonsense! He is the most sensitive and subtle man I met. He saw his reflection in me, penetrating to me. He made it clear that everything was in order with me - with my doubts, torments, displeasure to life, inaccessible, loneliness. With him, I realized that time had passed to pretend and hide. He is an artist, he knows that creativity and humor, sexuality and power come from the darkest and terrible cattle of our soul. In me, it was in excess. He managed to consider me for what I turned over the years in the USA.
For the role in the horror "call", renovated based on the Japanese film, Watts ordered the queen of remakes
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- They say you have a special connection with the lens. Sorry, if you remind you of these rumors, but immediately after the release of "Malkolland Drive" you would even recorded in lovers ...
"He is my huge friend, my keeper, a teacher, the one who made me by me." These guesses always mixed up us, we loved from the soul to wake over the next article about our allegedly romantic connection. But in general, I can not speak for him. Lynch is a very secretive person who believes in all the signs and superstitions.
- You know that, according to a recent survey, "M. D. " recognized as the best film of the XXI century?
- Yes, and I was touched by this fact. Let's go - how many? - Sixteen (wow!) Years, I still proud that was part of this amazing adventure. Play as part of one role immediately two - is it not what all artists dream about? Some do not get such luxurious gifts for all their careers.
- It is clear that your meeting with Lynch had a huge impact on your career, and life as a whole. Were there still fateful people in your life?
- Certainly, it is Nicole (Kidman. - Approx. Auth.). Now it's easy to talk about it and even a bit ridiculous, but then, to Lynch and "Malkolland Drive," I was seriously visited by thoughts about suicide - I "eaten Hollywood." And only she was near and constantly told that I need to gain patience and wait for the very, my role that would change everything. Thanks to her care and non-uniform, I still waited.
In the "painted veil" Naomi had a beautiful tandem with a colleague Edward Norton
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- Did you have a difficult period? Did you change?
- As for my legendary naivety and gullibility, here, apparently, nothing will correct me. And it seems to me that it is better why the opposite. It happens, people tell me the story, and I, waving my ears, listen and exclaim: "What, right?" And then I need to laugh, announcing a joke. I can sell anything so much. (Laughs.) As for some more changes ... Only now, on the eve of the fiftieth anniversary, I finally gained calm and harmony with me. Allowed me to just be. Previously, I was dissatisfied at first career, and after success and recognition began to make a chance ... Appearance!
- Seriously? You?
- Apparently, a negative program was simply active in me, not otherwise. It was necessary to always be on the dark side. By the way, my agent had passed some comments to me before success - I was sweet, but not too beautiful, then beautiful, but not very sexy. For a long time I was not up to that, but when my career was formed, I finally began to pay attention to "not such" appearance - and it was another stage of dealing with me, persuasion itself. How well, even though he did not drag on ten years!
- How can you play, being so ... exterminated, exhausted?
- harder than being happy. "Malkolland" happened at a break, and then I like to start to live truly. And he began to gradually learn to be happy. Although you know ... Mom somehow told me, persuading not to give up Acting: "You must be interested! Otherwise it is bored to work, boring to live. Do not leave Hollywood. " This is very wise words! We are not obliged to be happy every moment, we should not feel the feeling of guilt, if you do not understand the joy of every moment, but we are simply needed by excitement and interest in life and the case that occupies most of this life. Otherwise, the point of acting disappears.
- The feeling that only now you stopped the exhausting and endless struggle with you. I think correctly?
- Perhaps yes, five years old, as I calmed down a little. And before that, my life resembled rounds, battles, and every time, losing and withstanding these losses, my account was reset.
- By the way, about rounds. A film about the boxer "Knevo-starter", which came out quite recently, noteworthy at once several aspects ...
- Let me guess: first of all, I do not look like myself. Well, joint shooting with my husband Laequer Shreiber, right?
Naomi is the thirteenth year happy with his spouse Laequer Schreiber. Now the couple have two sons
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- Absolutely! First, you really spoke a little in an unexpected role. Are you fond of boxing?
- I am far from violence, even meat is not. But the male love for this cruel, but I fully divide the strong sport. My older brother was a kickboxer for some time, when we lived in Australia. But, despite the acceptance of the box, it was really difficult to sit back, and not jump into the ring, trying to protect someone you love.
- Yes? And your husband said that you liked to watch the scenes where he was beating (Laiv Schreiber was performed by the main role of Boxer Chuck Wepner. - Approx. Aut.).
- He said so, is it true? (Upset.)
- This is a joke.
- And I believed! In fact, I was not on the set, all these episodes were filmed in Bulgaria. But the lue was striking me too much - strong scenes!
"Don't you think that the sports industry is something similar to the movie industry?" There is a story, the plot ...
- Battles! And let us do not accept physical strikes, how many of them, metaphorical, we are demolished and sustained!
- It was difficult to play love with whom you live together for the thirteenth year?
- We played with him a completely different type of proximity, different from our usual. But it is definitely a kind of challenge. Remembering the experience of Nick (Nicole Kidman. - approx. Auth.), Who broke up with a circle after joint filming, we tried very hard to turn the work in the arena to clarify personal questions. Surprisingly, but in front of the native lies, I'm nervous and shy to play. Obviously, because he knows me not actress, but just his wife and mother of his children. He knows me thoroughly, and it is very difficult to go beyond the face of pretending and start truly playing. But ultimately I can say with confidence that I would repeat such an experience! Just fifty percent of our shooting time, I was very worried, so I could not completely feel a buzz from cooperation with my spouse.
"I am the first adult love of my husband. We went past each other for a long time, just not noticing, but once they met and no longer parted," says Watts
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- LEV - Hero of your first serious novel?
- Yes, and I am his first "adult" love. We have long walked past each other, just without noticing, between common friends and buddies. We were actively tried to reduce, to push, suck, but it turned out how it came out - in one day they just met, and everyone, no longer parted. It happened so naturally, so smoothly, so correctly.
- And nevertheless you are called late Hollywood flower ...
And it does not hurt me at all. Everything happened to me when I had to happen. It seems that my life began at thirty years, as if someone pressed the "Start" button - and everything was twisted. Late quarry, late children - yes. Although for whom are they late? Me - just right.
- Today you are not just an actress, who has five prime mines, - you are the mother of two sons. Traditional question: How do the first magnitude stars be balancing between work and personal life?
- Honestly? In no way. And how can I balance? You just have time, and you are struggling to you, you do everything you can, give all myself. By the way, I am sure that men are much better, so to speak, share and rule. In the working days you have to use the services of a nanny, but I dedicate any free minute to sons. I love to cook for them, although New York, where we live the last few years, is a city of eating a removal. But agree, there is something cozy, nostalgic, warm to bake with their children a chic chicken with potatoes. It is so in English. I spoke roots. (Laughs.)
- How to accept your gradual aging when you are a star, actress, and your face is a business card?
- Relax. No good thing happened to us as a result of meaningless tension. Look at Parisian! They have some internal source of power, elegance, non-perceptual years. Take the natural course of time, feel it, succumb to him and be sure that everything that happens is right, as it should.
"Good, Naomi, but don't you really have so-called beauty secrets and everything you do with your face and body," just relax?
- Well, I have a certain set of actions, but the secrets are difficult to call. Obvious things: a sufficient amount drunk on the day of water, a sufficient amount of sleep, a good moisturizing cream and an effective means of cleansing overnight.
"It seems that my life began at thirty years, as if someone clicked the" Start "button - and everything was twisted. Late quarry, late children - yes. Although for whom are they late? Me - just right, "Naomi
Photo: instagram.com/naomiwatts.
- What about sports? At the past red tracks, you conquered journalists with their neckline and fitting dresses.
- I do not like to do alone. Perhaps an exception is a bike, but when you turn the pedals in the park, it is difficult to be alone. I love yoga and pilates. And recently was fascinated by a purely New York theme - dance intensive under stunning music. From the side probably looks silly, but terribly fun! And I have recently laughing lately. Wrinkles around the eyes are not frightening me and the face is always glowing with a stupid smile, and it really mivges! In fact, I'm not very worried about my forty-eight years now.
- Where does such a philosophical attitude towards age?
- All from there - from my glorious period of failure. Due to the fact that I have learned happiness to be only recently.
- It turns out that in real life you are absolutely not like most of your heroines ...
- Why all this fruit (laughs). Yes, I'm not the dark and dark woman who usually appears on the screens. Like every person, I have a lot of demons - and with the help of acting I let them. Yet better so that they find the output, right? Today I can call myself an optimist and even a laughter. Although the directions about me in such a way do not think, find me "not funny."
- By the way, you have no plans to conquer the comedy genre?
- We will be frank: at my age to find and get good roles on this path almost impossible. EDAK I need to be a pretty young girl, the classic young lady from Romomomov. Although ... I started so many times from scratch! Why not try and now?