A few months ago when it was announced that Naomi Watts would be playing Princess Diana in a film about her last few years, there was a mixed reaction. Some thought she was the perfect choice, whilst others felt it was totally inappropriate.
The Australian is the cover star of this month’s issue of InStyle and talks about the film, which is due to be released on 20th September.
She confesses that she almost didn’t take the role. “More than twice I thought about not doing this. I said no before I said yes just because taking on that challenge is a massive one,” she says. “There were weeks of deciding, and then I thought, ‘God, I don’t like the idea of anyone else playing that role.’”
Speaking about the criticism she’s received, she says it’s all to be expected when taking on such a well-known figure. “Of course, people are going to jump to say, ‘She’s not tall enough; she doesn’t have the nose, the look, the voice…’, all of those things. But once I got past that, I liked the idea of the challenge,” she told the magazine.
Read the full interview in the October issue of InStyle.
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