Emily Watson
Emily Watson
Emily Margaret Watson, OBEis an English actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her debut film role as Bess McNeil in Lars von Trier's Breaking the Wavesand for her role as Jacqueline du Pré in Hilary and Jackie. She won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the 2011 ITV drama Appropriate Adult...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth14 January 1967
CityIslington, England
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Yeah, a lot of people think I'll be a tortured nutcase when they meet me.
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I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still do.
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I do think you feel a little bit like you are preying on people's lives.
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I sometimes feel like it's difficult for people to relate to me, until they spend, like, a day with me, and until they walk around with me in public.
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I always think I am going to do my best.
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When I did get home this last time, we had all these plans to go out. And then we hardly stepped outside because the time together seemed too precious.
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Please, please, please - I would love to do some comedy. Once you have a reputation for one thing - in my case, crying and dying - you are typecast.
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The film Punch - Drunk Love is how you see the world when you're in love. You don't see somebody's psychological baggage necessarily, you see the person walking out of the light.
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I have to be a lot more calculating because I'm a very private person. I actually really struggle with the attention; I'm generally a pretty shy kind of a person. So it's tough figuring out how to manage it. But there are ways of managing it, and you just have to be smart.
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I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it's very character driven.
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As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating.