African Take On Middle Class Misery
Another article courtesy of Sue W. This one is from The Sunday Times:
Emily Watson was wary of taking a part in Wah Wah, Richard E Grant’s directorial debut, but the script won her over.
Emily Watson has just returned to her London home after nipping out to buy a loaf of bread. “It’s the most exciting thing I’ve done all day,” she says, laughing apologetically. But her domesticity doesn’t end there; she has also been clearing the spare room and putting up shelves.
Seven months pregnant with her first child, she is busy getting the baby’s room ready in the Bermondsey home she shares with her former actor husband Jack Waters.
“I feel like a 10 ton truck,” says Watson, laughing, something she does a lot. “I’ve been very lucky, I haven’t suffered from morning sickness. I’m enjoying having time to be at home and get organised.”
It sounds terribly unshowbizzy but then Watson, 38, is resolutely down-to-earth. Best known for her remarkable, raw performance in Lars von Trier’s searing 1996 film Breaking the Waves, which won her the first of two Oscar nominations, she has been continuously employed on both sides of the Atlantic for the last decade. But despite meaty roles in Angela’s Ashes, Gosford Park, the Hannibal Lecter prequel Red Dragon and The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, Watson could still walk down most high streets without drawing a second glance.
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