Naomi Watts: No to kids movies, yes to more babies
At a press conference on Tuesday for her new film Eastern Promises, actress Naomi Watts, who turns 39 later this month, showed a bit of ambivalence when asked just how many Watts-Schreiber co-productions we can expect to see in the future. Hint: Anywhere from the one they already have up to five!
I would like five more. Five is excessive, particularly for someone myage! I’d love three. Thatmight be pushing it, so two. But one’s great, too. We’ll see.
As mom to Alexander Pete — ‘But we call him Sasha, because that’s the shortened, Russian version of Alexander‘ — 7 weeks, Naomi is reflective when asked how she plans to balance motherhood with her workload, a topic she discussed earlier in the week as well.
I’m only six weeks into motherhood, sowe’ll see how things evolve. In terms of content, I don’t see thatchanging. I’m not going to start making movies for kids. That’s not how I’veever approached my work. It’s just what I respond to, what’s truthful,what speaks to me.
I tend to make my choices — they’re driven often by the director — asI feel film is their medium. They are teachers and give guidance. And Iimagine that would stay the same. Maybe later on, I’ve got to do onefor my son to impress his friends!
Playing a large part in her decisions will be the schedule of fiance Liev Schreiber, 39 — he will have a chance to do his stage and screen projects, but Naomi hopes he’ll help with the heavy lifting as well.
It’schallenging, especially traveling with all the equipment. But I thinkI can say for certain the questions I have to ask first before eachproject that is offered to me is how long, and where. And then there will be a discussion with Liev, and whose turn is it to work and if they overlap, how long for.
Source: Boston Herald; This is North Scotland
