How did we get here?” Emily Watson asks, frustratedly. “Where the victims of a horrific crime aren’t believed and the perpetrators are protected?” In her new film God’s Creatures, the Oscar-nominated star of Breaking the Waves and Punch-Drunk Love plays Aileen, a seafood processor in rural Ireland whose son Brian (Normal People’s Paul Mescal) is accused by a local girl of rape. The residents of the small fishing town they live in rally around him. The accuser, on the other hand, is exiled. “This is baked into our institutions and how our society is structured,” Watson continues, forcefully now. “Somehow sexual assault doesn’t matter. Somebody breaks into your house? The police will sort you out in five minutes. If someone rapes your daughter… good luck!”
Watson has been an internationally acclaimed star and one of Britain’s very best actors for more than 25 years, but there’s still something mysterious about her.
Watson has been an internationally acclaimed star and one of Britain’s very best actors for more than 25 years, but there’s still something mysterious about her.
- 3/30/2023
- by Adam White
- The Independent - Film
The indie thriller “You Can’t Stay Here,” starring “Law & Order: Organized Crime” and “Scandal” alum Guillermo Díaz, wrapped production this month in New York.
“You Can’t Stay Here” is loosely inspired by real events in New York City in the 1990’s, and follows a photographer (Díaz), who witnesses the brutal murder of a gay man in Central Park. When the cops take little interest in the crime, a relationship develops between the photographer and the killer.
“I have been a fan of Guillermo since his first film and when he approached me about wanting to work on something together, I jumped at the chance and came up with the story for ‘You Can’t Stay Here,’ ” said director Todd Verow, who produces through his Bangor Films. “It is a film about queer cruising and finding love and real human connections in the most unlikely places. While set in the 1990s,...
“You Can’t Stay Here” is loosely inspired by real events in New York City in the 1990’s, and follows a photographer (Díaz), who witnesses the brutal murder of a gay man in Central Park. When the cops take little interest in the crime, a relationship develops between the photographer and the killer.
“I have been a fan of Guillermo since his first film and when he approached me about wanting to work on something together, I jumped at the chance and came up with the story for ‘You Can’t Stay Here,’ ” said director Todd Verow, who produces through his Bangor Films. “It is a film about queer cruising and finding love and real human connections in the most unlikely places. While set in the 1990s,...
- 7/30/2022
- by Sofia Behzadi
- Variety Film + TV
Emily Watson's raw performances have made her one of Britain's most spellbinding actors. Now she's playing a woman running for prime minister – against her husband. She talks to Carole Cadwalladr about marriage, sexuality and the joy of viscose blouses
The plots of TV dramas are often so preposterous and far-fetched. And then sometimes they're not. The latest three-parter from the BBC, The Politician's Husband, stars David Tennant and Emily Watson as two senior politicians who are married to one another and whose domestic life starts to unravel when the husband's career begins to be eclipsed by that of his more talented wife. If this is a fantasy (and none too flattering) version of Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper's lives, then at least they can be happy with the cast.
It's a mark of how much the star of TV drama has risen that an actor of Emily Watson's stature is involved.
The plots of TV dramas are often so preposterous and far-fetched. And then sometimes they're not. The latest three-parter from the BBC, The Politician's Husband, stars David Tennant and Emily Watson as two senior politicians who are married to one another and whose domestic life starts to unravel when the husband's career begins to be eclipsed by that of his more talented wife. If this is a fantasy (and none too flattering) version of Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper's lives, then at least they can be happy with the cast.
It's a mark of how much the star of TV drama has risen that an actor of Emily Watson's stature is involved.
- 4/13/2013
- by Carole Cadwalladr
- The Guardian - Film News
British actress Emily Watson would be happy to step out of the spotlight and become a full-time housewife - because she's lost her acting ambition.
The Gosford Park star and husband Jack Waters are parents to Juliet, five, and two-year-old Dylan and the actress admits she's become more focused on motherhood than movie sets.
But Watson has to keep working - because she's the main income provider in the household.
She tells Britain's The Independent, "I don't feel ambitious anymore. I really don't! It's such a pleasure going to work, and I love my job, but if I had to give it up tomorrow, I would. But actually I can't because I'm the breadwinner and I have to keep going. So I won't. I have to find a way of making it all work and putting it all together."...
The Gosford Park star and husband Jack Waters are parents to Juliet, five, and two-year-old Dylan and the actress admits she's become more focused on motherhood than movie sets.
But Watson has to keep working - because she's the main income provider in the household.
She tells Britain's The Independent, "I don't feel ambitious anymore. I really don't! It's such a pleasure going to work, and I love my job, but if I had to give it up tomorrow, I would. But actually I can't because I'm the breadwinner and I have to keep going. So I won't. I have to find a way of making it all work and putting it all together."...
- 3/25/2011
- WENN
In her latest film, Emily Watson plays a social worker who battled to reunite British families with children forcibly sent to Australia, a role made more poignant by losing her mother as filming began
I can't believe I haven't met Emily Watson before. But I know why she seems familiar: it is because of her performance in the tremendous new film Oranges and Sunshine, directed by Ken Loach's son, Jim Loach. It is Watson's outstanding gift as an actress that she appears not to "put on" an act at all. She rejects ornament. She pares roles down. She gets to the heart of things and the result is as close to a personal encounter as you can get on screen. The film is based on Empty Cradles, a memoir by Nottingham social worker Margaret Humphreys, about the scandal of the 130,000 unaccompanied children sent to Australia between the 1920s and 1960s.
I can't believe I haven't met Emily Watson before. But I know why she seems familiar: it is because of her performance in the tremendous new film Oranges and Sunshine, directed by Ken Loach's son, Jim Loach. It is Watson's outstanding gift as an actress that she appears not to "put on" an act at all. She rejects ornament. She pares roles down. She gets to the heart of things and the result is as close to a personal encounter as you can get on screen. The film is based on Empty Cradles, a memoir by Nottingham social worker Margaret Humphreys, about the scandal of the 130,000 unaccompanied children sent to Australia between the 1920s and 1960s.
- 3/20/2011
- by Kate Kellaway
- The Guardian - Film News
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