Why Naomi Watts is a glutton for punishment
March 22nd, 2008, 10:05 pm Hobbies Ideas
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When it comes to being bruised, battered and brutalised, few give victim
like Naomi Watts. There was her supernatural spooking in The Ring and her
wailing, drug-addled widow in 21 Grams. And need one mention the degradation
heaped on her shrieking, scantily clad self by that naked, hairy ape King
Kong? Why, the woman could scream for England . . . and Australia. Even in a
piece of fluff such as Le Divorce, a rare romantic diversion from her more
emotionally overwrought norm, Watts ended up attempting suicide.
Last year, in Eastern Promises, in which she played an angelic London nurse,
she couldn%26rsquo;t help getting sucked into the grisly machinations of the Russian
mafia. And in her latest film, Funny Games, which isn%26rsquo;t funny at all, so
much misery is inflicted on all and sundry - adults, children, pet pooch -
that the poor woman can do nothing but blub and screech and simper (in her
undies).
For a screen actress acknowledged as one of the finest around - Watts was
Oscar-nominated, deservedly, for 21 Grams - this is, of course, being
facetiously disrespectful. Now she has established herself as a latterday
Hitchcock blonde, however, news that she is about to take the Tippi Hedren
role in a big, showy remake of The Birds suggests that she has embraced her
lot.
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