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Emily Watson: ‘I’m Blessed With a Readable Face’
The double Oscar nominee grew up in a cultlike organization. Acting became her way out of it.
In order to make sense of the sudden rupture from her community, Watson threw herself into work, going on to star in some of the most acclaimed films of the aughts: Gosford Park, Punch-Drunk Love, and Synecdoche, New York. There’s a similar kind of abandon in your performances in Breaking the Waves and then in the controversial Hilary and Jackie, in which you’re playing Jacqueline du Pré, this prodigy cellist depicted in the film as totally self-destructive in her personal life. “Nothing about Breaking the Waves is more fortuitous than the choice of Ms. Watson, the former Royal Shakespeare Company actress who so fervently and glowingly embodies Bess,” wrote Janet Maslin in the New York Times.
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