WTF Happened to NAOMI WATTS?

Why Does Naomi Watts Keep Getting Employed?

https://www.datalounge.com/thread/29953376-why-does-naomi-watts-keep-getting-employed-

She's talented "enough" and she's pretty "enough" and her asking price is low "enough" and so she gets work that is turned down by more popular actresses or when they can't afford one.

Eva Marie Saint is a good comparison.

by Anonymous reply 3 December 24, 2021 10:32 PM

She was very good in a film I saw a few years back about the tsunami in India. I think her “problem” is she’s sort of a B+ at everything: she’s a good actress, just not a great one, very pretty but not strikingly beautiful, she works regularly but doesn’t put the hustle in for fame that some other actors do, etc. But as a result she makes a good living, has a family and time for them, doesn’t get swarmed by the press, so maybe she’s the smart one!

by Anonymous reply 34 December 29, 2021 2:05 PM

Lol, you're delusional.

https://www.datalounge.com/thread/30622903-naomi-watts

I agree she is very talented, but her range is limited, more limited than most of the actresses you mention, R2. (But not all: She would have brought more depth and warmth to Gilded Age than Carrie Coon.)

She broke out in Hollywood playing an ingenue (Betty in Mulholland Drive) and she still has that look.

There aren't too many parts for that type at age 53. Witness her being cast as Babe Paley in the second season of Feud.

It's also possible she has bad representation and/or not the best taste in material. She or her team really have picked a lot of lousy scripts.

by Anonymous reply 5 April 11, 2022 6:14 AM

Naomi Watts Deserves Better

https://www.pajiba.com/celebrities_are_better_than_you/naomi-watts-deserves-better.php

Since then, I’ve been an eager fan of Watts. She’s one of the few actors working today whose career I have a curious personal investment in. That’s a difficult situation for any person given that no actor, regardless of talent and opportunity, has a perfect filmography to their name. Everyone has flops, failed chances, and big swings that simply missed the mark. Even Daniel Day-Lewis did Nine. Watts, sadly, doesn’t seem to be doing the kinds of projects I and many others think she is capable and deserving of. It’s almost a joke to some, with many in Film Twitter circles seeing her as the recipient of Nicole Kidman’s cast-offs (the pair are actually good friends.)

Watts always seems to sign onto the ‘right’ project, at least on paper. She’s worked with notable directors, often in their follow-ups to breakout work, where the hype is at its peak. She landed the leading female role in Peter Jackson’s much-anticipated remake of King Kong, which performed solidly but wasn’t exactly elevated to masterpiece status. Ideas that seem right in theory, like a biopic of Princess Diana, fall apart in execution. Blockbuster darling Colin Trevorrow cast her in his return to his indie roots… but that film was The Book of Henry. For every acclaimed experience with a beloved auteur at the top of their game — David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises — there are as many misfires — Gus Van Sant’s Sea of Trees, Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar. Yet there’s this sense among many film lovers that Watts’ career is in irreparable shape, even when her acting is acclaimed and moments of quiet brilliance, such as the drama Luce, sneak up on us.

Bingo.