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 Watts, 46, found herself drawn to comedies such as Noah
Baumbach's "While We're Young," a look at the disconnect between
Generation X and Millennials through two New York couples -
Cornelia and Josh (Watts and Ben Stiller), and Jamie and Darby
(Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried).
Ahead of the film's theatrical release on Friday, Watts spoke to
Reuters about her character. Following are excerpts from the
interview.
Q: What attracted you to this role?
A: This feels a little bit familiar, and the juxtaposition of
each couple, how different they were in the stages of their
lives and how they were approaching everything, their work - it
felt like a funny dynamic to be a part of.
Q: How is this story relatable to people?
A: It's really a human drama-slash-comedy that could take place
in any part of the world. There's endless fascination with youth
culture and in the same regard, the young are fascinated with us
but possibly for less pure reasons. Even though (Jamie and
Darby) present themselves as this very purist couple, I think
they, particularly Adam Driver's character, were using us as a
form of a meal ticket.
Q: Did you overcome any challenges to play Cornelia?
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A: Not really, I loved her instantly. The first read I just thought,
'Wow, she's great and she's smart and she's made choices that she
thinks she's all good and squared on,' but she ends up changing, so
there were no issues with me playing her.
I never felt, 'Oh, I don't like this.' I mean, you'll often take on
characters and you'll think 'Oh God, I wish she hadn't done this and
done that,' but in Cornelia's case I pretty much loved her in every
direction.
Q: Do you see yourself working in more comedy?
A: I'd love to. I think it's harder to find good comedies and the
formulaic ones don't interest me as much, it's more the situational
and the ones that are more believable. Or slapstick, I like that.
"St. Vincent" felt pretty broad but it was really fun to do that and
with Bill Murray, of course, and Melissa McCarthy, and
(Oscar-winning) "Birdman" being a black comedy - now maybe I'm on
people's radar for that.
(Reporting by Alicia Avila for Reuters TV; Writing by Piya Sinha-Roy;
Editing by Tom Brown)
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