Emily Watson is an easy talker.
After three decades in Hollywood (and plenty of adulation and awards to match), the British star could put on plenty of airs.
Instead, she comes across as approachable, candid, and kind — even when she’s placed mere feet away from this interviewer’s snotty Covid test (negative!).So when she admits that being first choice for a role can be “quite scary”— as she was for the leading part of Aileen in Anna Rose Holmer and Saela Davis’ Irish gothic “God’s Creatures” — you believe her, even though she became an Oscar-nominated actress with her very first on-screen performance in Lars von Trier’s “Breaking the Waves.”“‘Why me? What is it about me? What is it in my bag of tricks that you are interested in?,” When directors pursue her, those are the questions she asks herself.
For “God’s Creatures,” she went even further:
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