San Sebastián, España.- Since its debut in “Breaking the Waves”, Emily Watson predicted a promising career. But at age 48, the British actress confesses somewhat overwhelmed to receive a lifetime achievement award like that today gives the Festival of San Sebastian.
“It’s very strange, yet wonderful” said hours before the show, because there is “old enough” to an award as well. She knew the tournament, but had not heard of the Donostia Award, and when he read the list of distinguished -of Gregory Peck Richard Gere Bette Davis or very “surprised and honored” felt he added.
More thirty titles support the career of this actress who claims not to have followed “no plan” going where the papers were carrying him. With the latter, the epic “Everest”, inaugurated a few days the Festival of Venice does, but in his films also include films like “Angela’s Ashes”, “War Horse” or more recently “The Book Thief”.
Although its beginnings were on stage and hand the Royal Shakespeare Company, Watson said he feels “at home” in the film. “I love theater, but it is very difficult to play a character once, and another, and another … is a challenge,” he said. However, in 2002 he returned to the command of Sam Mendes for “Uncle Vanya” and “Twelfth Night”.
If you were to choose a role from the many she has played, the actress married to a writer and mother of two would begin with “Breaking the Waves”, which earned him his first Oscar nomination. “First love is always the deepest” he said of the young and in love Bess who played the orders of Lars von Trier, which is not as fierce as they paint.
“He has a bad name , reputed to be difficult with the actors, but for me it was a fascinating experience, “he said. Then, smiling at the memory “Punch Drunk Love” (Paul Thomas Anderson), with Adam Sandler – “was fun, a very special experiment.” – And finally added the Australian western “The Proposition”
Also , if a director I would like to work, that would be Robert Altman, under whom he filmed in 2001 and “Gosford Park”. “Everything goes in cycles, but there will always be interesting filmmakers who manage to make films beyond the system, and have been fortunate to work with some of them,” he said.
Asked for his recurring role of “mother” on the big screen, this actress frank look who answered the media dressed in a simple black dress says “a lot of interesting women are mothers.” “It’s not one or the other, many of the women in my age most representative film have children”.
In this regard, he acknowledged that in the cinema, physical “obviously important”. But Watson is considered “very fortunate” to have always been fingerprinted “for reasons other than those of some of Hollywood actresses.” Although equal pay is an issue “that must be”, he said it is not his “personal battle”. She feels grateful to pursue what he loves
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