Naomi Watts
Naomi Watts
Naomi Ellen Wattsis a British actress and film producer. She made her screen debut in the Australian drama film For Love Aloneand then appeared in the Australian television series Hey Dad..!, Brides of Christand Home and Awayand alongside Nicole Kidman and Thandie Newton in the coming-of-age comedy-drama film Flirting. After moving to America, Watts appeared in films, including Tank Girl, Children of the Corn IV: The Gatheringand Dangerous Beautyand had the lead role in the television series Sleepwalkers...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth28 September 1968
CityShoreham, England
Dance was one of the things that led me to acting even though I say I fell in love with acting fairly early on and its true but around 16 and 17 I got heavily into dance but I think I just came into it too late and I was never going to be really great at it so I let it go and the dance led to more acting classes.
Female roles in comedies are usually quite silly, I think.
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?"
I think whether you've got children or not you're just more aware of others as you get out of your 20s.
I don't know that any woman could ever not think about that at some point - even making the choice not to do it and getting to the place of peace of choosing not to be a parent, there would have still been some struggle in between. I'm not a man but I don't think it would occupy their minds as much.
We're all the same, we all think its better somewhere else; its better being older if you're younger - or its better being younger when we're older.
I think every time you take on a new role, you're trying to help find that voice and you add your own bits and pieces along the way but with Noah [Baumbach] it's already done.
I think in my 20s I was just all about having fun.
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.
I think I have better taste now than I did then.
Who are we when we leave our families? Who do we become? What are we capable of? That's something that never leaves us. It begins at that point in your life when you leave the nest, and I don't think we stop wanting to explore that question.
Sometimes they come to you and it's a small role, so it's about the experience and the journey and mixing with people you know you will learn from. Or sometimes it's a scene in a movie that you think, 'I just have to play this person.'
I don't think of myself as a terribly confident person. But I have a survival mechanism that was instilled in me by my mother.
I was never completely destitute. I think I borrowed money once off a friend, but I've always been quite careful with my money, having come from not much of it.