Naomi Watts recollects how David Lynch stopped her from quitting Hollywood
Naomi Watts wouldn’t be a Hollywood star if it weren’t for David Lynch.
Naomi Watts almost left the appearing world earlier than a pivotal assembly with the late director modified her trajectory, she revealed on Reside With Kelly and Mark, through Leisure Weekly.
Solid because the lead in Lynch’s critically acclaimed 2001 movie Mulholland Drive, Watts turned a star after struggling by means of “10 years” of unsuccessful auditions.
Lynch handed away on Jan. 15 on the age of 78.
“I wouldn’t have stayed [in Hollywood] had I not met David Lynch,” Watts shared.
“The chips were down, it was 10 years into flunking auditions [and] nothing was happening…I was literally alienating people. I was making them uncomfortable because I was so like, ‘I need a job! I need a job!’”
The scenario turned dire sufficient that Watts recalled her agent saying, “‘You’re too intense. You’re making people uncomfortable,’” including, “Yeah, I need a job. I’m desperate, I need to work. I planned on going home multiple times.”
Watts described Lynch’s distinctive strategy to casting “very different”.
“Long story short, David Lynch called me in and has a very different way of casting,” she defined.
“He sat me down and just looked me in the eyes and asked me questions, and most of the time I was like, ‘How do I get out of your way? How do I speed this up?’ [Because] I’m sure I’m not right, because I just had that programming: I’m not funny, I’m not sexy, I’m too old, I’m too this, too that. And he just saw me and was able to sort of lift these veneers.”
Their collaboration prolonged past Mulholland Drive, with Watts engaged on Lynch’s Rabbits and Twin Peaks: The Return, alongside different common collaborators like Kyle MacLachlan and Laura Dern.