The long-lost actress Naomi Watts recently posted a red lip photo on her social media, which was simply beautiful.
Saying that this is the state of the sister who is almost 53 years old, does anyone believe it?
During this time, she was nostalgic on the IG from time to time, and people couldn't help but look at it.
"In 1999, I wore a Collette Dinnigan dress to the AFI awards ceremony, which still fits perfectly today. Disposable cameras, please ignore it~"
He also often spoofs his old photos of the past and comes to a home replica.
Such a cute and humorous humor in private, and the contrast between the image on the screen is really too big. "Mulholland Avenue", two American versions of "Midnight Bell", "Veil", "21 Grams", "Tsunami Miracle"... The sister's representative works are a long list, and almost none of them are characters with smooth and smooth lives, either with dark pasts or with troubles and crises, and need to endure great pain.
In reality, Naomi's life is also full of twists and turns, her father died of a drug overdose at the age of 8, and almost the same tragedy happened to her ex-boyfriend Heath Ledger 32 years later (Ledger's cause of death was an overdose).
Career-wise, unlike her young girlfriend Nicole Kidman, Naomi only became famous at the age of 33 with David Lynch's Mulholland Drive, and before that she had almost given up on Hollywood.
The amazing thing is that after experiencing so much, her temperament on the screen is still changeable, but she is gentle and sharp, and her facial features look better under the infiltration of the years, how did she do it? Let's start at the beginning.
We all call Naomi Watts as Australian actresses today, when in fact she is of mixed British and Australian descent. Naomi's grandfather was Welsh and her grandmother was Australian, and she was born in 1968 in Kent, England.
Speaking of which, Naomi was born into a very artistic family, her father Peter Watts is the tour manager and sound engineer of the legendary British band Pink Floyd, and her mother Myfanwy is an antique dealer and costume/set designer.
Pink Floyd is a London-based British rock band known for its philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album cover art and exquisite live performances, selling more than 250 million records worldwide, and was inducted into the American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 and the British Music Hall of Fame in 2005. (From Wikipedia)
From left to right: Naomi and Mom Miv and Dad Peter
However, in childhood, Naomi did not have much opportunity to feel the warmth of the family, let alone absorb artistic nourishment, her parents divorced when she was four years old, Naomi and her brother lived with her mother, her father quickly left the band, and when Naomi was 8 years old, she was found dead in her apartment due to overdose.
After the death of their father, the mother and son began a life of displacement for many years. He first moved to Anglesey Island in North Wales and lived with his grandfather and grandmother for three years, and also learned the local Welsh native language at the local language school.
One of Naomi's places of life in Wales is Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, the longest officially recognized place name in the UK and one of the longest place names in the world, translated as Chinese "Ranvelpur Guin gilgo Gerhuil Endro Gorgogog". Taron Egerton of Ace Agent also lived here.
Their mother remarried soon after, and they moved to Suffolk, where she also became obsessed with acting while still in secondary school and planned to make a living as an actor.
In 1982, at the age of 14, Naomi moved to Sydney, Australia, with her remarried mother and family. After remarriage, her mother did not give up her career to catch up with the booming Australian film and television industry, first as a TV advertising stylist, and then began to work as a costume designer in Australian soap operas.
Thanks to her mother's cool head and hard work, their lives were finally stable and secure after emigrating, and the mother immediately signed up for her daughter for the acting course she had longed for, and Naomi also began to audition for TV commercials. Recalling the turbulent experiences of her childhood, Naomi puts it this way: "Although my childhood was full of sorrows, I never lacked love and wherever I moved, I adapted and learned the local accent. This is certainly an advantage for me as an actor. ”
Looking back at her various encounters after entering the show business circle, I will only be impressed by her optimism. In 1986, at the age of 19, she starred in her first work, "For Love Alone", but unfortunately the reputation was not good, this year, because of perennial absences, Naomi did not graduate from high school, once worked as a newspaper delivery worker, and also worked in a delicatessen on the north shore of Sydney's wealthy district.
When he was younger, Naomi's face was more rounded than it is now, and some of the makeup and hair were even a bit like Kylie Minogue in some ways. During this time, she also tried to be a model and was sent to Japan by the agency, but unfortunately several auditions were passed off by the brand, and she had to slip back to Sydney.
Later, in 2002, Naomi starred in the "American version of midnight murder bell", which was also a magical fate.
Naomi was then hired by fashion magazines as an assistant fashion editor, but in the end, her willingness to become an actress trumped other possibilities.
It was at this time that Naomi's girlfriend, Nicole Kidman, appeared, and the two had attended the same high school and joined the same troupe, but it wasn't until 1991 that they became acquainted with each other when they collaborated on the Australian comedy film Flirting, and friendship began to sprout from this time.
Who is this familiar sister? It's Thandie Newton, the "Maeve" of Westworld.
Encouraged by her girlfriend, Naomi decided to move to the United States to pursue her career further.
Still, Naomi soon felt the brutality of Vanity Fair. At that time, Nicole was already married to Atango, filming Lon Howard's "Far and Away", and in 1995, "Batman Forever", when Naomi could only appear in some TV movies and funny movies.
"At first everything was amazing, Hollywood seemed to open its doors to me, and some of the people I knew through Nicole showed every way they appreciated me, but when we met again, they didn't even forget my name, let alone the 'promises', and everyone jumped the ticket." 」
Only then did she understand that she could not take the flattery of huang tang down her stomach seriously, and Naomi secretly encouraged herself: "I said to myself, 'Fight for five years, good things will happen'. ”
What is even more chilling is that some casting directors have bluntly bullied newcomers. "At that time, they even refused to fax me the script on the grounds of inconvenience, and I had to drive for several hours to get the three pieces of paper, and then go back to the line for two hours the next day to meet the casting director who barely looked at me, which was a shame."
Because she has not yet made a name for herself in Hollywood, Naomi needs to work back and forth in the United States and Australia to make a living, and in the film and drama circle of newcomers, the income of a ride is not embarrassing enough to make her give up her career, but the embarrassment of not being able to pay rent and paying health insurance is also common.
Soon she had spent all her savings and became withdrawn. In an interview with CBS Sunday Morning in February 2013, Naomi revealed that if it were not for Kidman's encouragement, she might have given up her then-failed film career to return to Australia early in the late 1990s.
"She always encouraged me, 'Dear you, make one more film, insist on one more film, as long as one work is on fire, your life will be different from now on.'" ”
"'Only by continuing to work can you meet a new job(work begets work)', which became my motto"
This waited until the age of 33, and Naomi did wait for "Muhran Road". This time, director David Lynch only took one look at her headshot and fixed her, directly to the protagonist's offer.
Oh time!
This classic black suspense film, a hall-level mystic masterpiece, started out as a two-hour sample of a series, but I didn't expect to be killed directly by the American Broadcasting Corporation, and Naomi, who got the news of the killing, was once very desperate: "I thought I was too unlucky to meet a big director like David Lynch, but I acted in the only show that he could not broadcast. ”
Lynch, who did not give up, completed the production of the film version with the help of a French distributor, and "Mulholland Drive" premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2001 to great acclaim.
Lynch later wrote in an interview about why she chose Naomi: "I knew at a glance that she was a very talented actress with a beautiful soul, who could show the possibilities of a variety of different roles, in short, she took all her talents into account." 」 ”
In the past 20 years since the film was released, there is still a lot of debate among fans about which are real and which are dreams in the film, to some extent, this is the epitome of Naomi's ten years of Hollywood: one person plays two roles, Betty is the ideal world of Naomi, and Diana is the real world of Naomi.
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After "Mulholland Road", Naomi's drama road finally opened,: the movie "21 Grams" won her first academy award nomination, "Midnight Bells" and "King Kong" were box office hits, the disaster film "Tsunami Miracle The Impossible" cooperated with the young Dutch brother Tom Holland, and in "Birdman" after 12 years to cooperate with Edward Norton again...
At the 15th Huading Awards in the same year, Naomi won the title of "Best Global Film Actress".
But Vanity Fair doesn't treat you well just because you've proven yourself time and time again. Last year, HBO abruptly announced the cancellation of the planned "Game of Thrones Prequel: The Long Night", and the heroine is Nonei Watts, and the crew completed the filming of the pilot episode in Northern Ireland in 2019. Naomi, who learned of the bad news, was very disappointed and said that it was a "great shame".
You can only keep proving that that is Naomi's motto, work begets work.
"I am very grateful for where I am at the moment, the constant invitations to work, the directors I love and respect will call me, and my original intention has never changed."
In the adult world, work is not the only one, you need a healthy body, harmonious interpersonal relationships, a suitable social circle for yourself, and can enhance your hobbies. Rich and interesting enough in the real world to support a person's exploration and expression in the spiritual world and the field of art.
Naomi Watts thinks so and does just that.
Keeping a low profile in life allows her to better return to herself. She said: "I actually don't like the feeling of walking the red carpet, hundreds of people shouting your name in the loudest voice, my heart is going to jump out... My favorite thing is that you are welcome to visit my house. ”
Harmonious interpersonal relationships are very important to Naomi, who has encountered family troubles very early.
Late last year, she and her two sons worked on the November issue of Hamptons with her brother Ben Watts, girlfriend Gabriela Langone and their son, Wynston Watts.
My brother is a well-known fashion photographer who also lives in New York, and his photographs are often published in international fashion magazines such as ELLE, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, vanity Fair and so on.
Naomi said in an interview: "We moved a lot when we were kids, there were a lot of different houses, different schools, and even a different country, so it was easy for us to cause friction between us. ”
"It all ended on the day we moved out independently, and then even if we had occasional fights, we never had a fight anymore, and we would support each other as much as we could."
What is more commendable to outsiders is that although the career paths are very different or even quite different, it does not prevent Naomi and Kidman from becoming true friends with each other.
In 2007, both were guests of the Academy Awards, walking the red carpet hand in hand, ah so beautiful!
In 2001, when Naomi had a career breakthrough with Mulholland Drive, Kidman personally presented Naomi with the Movieline Trophy: "Naomi used to support me and participate in the premiere of my films, and now I can support her in my own way." ”
In June 2015, Kidman was awarded the Women in Film Crystal + Lucy Awards by the Women in Film Crystal + Lucy Awards, and in his acceptance speech, Kidman joked that he had once passed directly because he saw a script in which two girls kissed with a shower cap.
In August 2017, Kidman revealed in an interview with the Australian talk show Today that he and Naomi had celebrated their 25th anniversary together over the past summer: "We had a big party and we played crazy that night! ”
Naomi has only joined IG in recent years and regularly sends birthday wishes every year. Sister Kidman began joining IG in the first season of "Big Little Lies", and although she was mainly based on work and family, her girlfriend position has always been there.
"We have been through a lot together over the long course of time, and it is that history that has held us together and made us feel a strong sense of respect and love for each other."
Emotionally, Naomi and the late Australian actor Heath Ledger have been dating for 3 years, and since 2005, they have been dating American actor Liev Schreiber, and have two sons, 14-year-old Sasha and 13-year-old Sammy.
In 2016, the two announced their breakup without warning, shocking the world.
Even more surprising is that since 2017, she and billy Crudup, a co-star of the Netflix series "Gypsy", have begun to date.
Billy Crudup's reputation in the relationship is not particularly good, and when she and her ex-girlfriend, "Single Toxic Mom" Mary-Louise Parker is preparing to usher in their first child, she cheated on co-actress claire Danes of "Homeland", and neither relationship ended well, and also made people sweat for Naomi's choice.
The two people were also photographed walking their dogs on the streets of New York this month, and it seems that the relationship is still quite good.
It is said that after filming "The Veil" in China, Naomi developed a strong interest in Buddhism. For Naomi, who believes that everything in life is experience, falling out of love is also a lesson that must be repeated in life. She once said, "As an artist, you have to go through pain. It's not enough to experience it only once; You have to go on and ”
The pandemic is not over yet, but she has begun new work, and last October, Naomi announced on social media that she had completed the filming of a new film in Canada.
"Now I can have a little say, but I don't feel like I can relax. For most of my life, I've been constantly struggling, and that's what I've been holding on to. ”
This is a sister who really rides the wind and waves.
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