Naomi Watts on her grueling thriller Lakewood: 'It scared the shit out of me'
,” the Oscar-nominated star of such grueling exercises in cinematic heroics as “The Impossible” and “King Kong,” spends the bulk of the movie running through the forest, struggling with spotty cellphone reception while trying to make her way to her teenage son’s school, which is under lockdown with an active shooter. It’s Watts and Watts alone on-screen for much of the film’s 84-minute run time.
“Those conversations were not pre-recorded, and that was crucial because so many things could happen that were unplanned,” says Watts. “It meant they were able to move and be agile with me. If we just pre-recorded voices, it would have dictated my performance and left me quite cold.” “Naomi has that can-do attitude where nothing is going to defeat her,” says director Phillip Noyce. “She’s running sometimes two-and-a-half miles in a single take. One day, she put into the sick bay the cinematographer John Brawley, three camera operators and four grips. They all had to be retired while trying to keep up with her, and Naomi was still going.
“I hope that it will continue the conversation,” says Watts. “My job, as an actor, is to reach people in their hearts and in their minds. I’m just a conduit. Hopefully it can alter those who think that gun laws are the way they should be. Hopefully it can show the human standpoint of what a parent is going through when one of these horrible shootings happen.”
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