Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category
Naomi’s partner Liev Schreiber has been out and about promoting his new movie, Salt, recently, and in interviews he of course gets asked about Naomi. Here’s some interesting mentions from an interview he did with SheKnows.com, including some further details on the upcoming Untitled Comedy:
Liev Schreiber speaks to SK!
SheKnows: Did current CIA agents affect your performance, or who influenced this particular CIA operative you’re playing?
Liev Schreiber: Fortunately, while I was preparing for this film, Na (Naomi Watts) was preparing for Fair Game. So, Valerie, Valerie Plame was around a lot. I got to hang out with Valerie and I’ve met a lot of CIA consultants — none under the conditions that I had met Valerie. Valerie was particularly interesting to me because usually when you meet a consultant they’re happy they’re on a film. But, Valerie was somewhat different. She had been fingered by her own government. She was exposed. She had an interesting relationship with the CIA. What I got from Valerie that was a value to me was that the part that I don’t understand is what most motivates someone to do something like that and it’s the patriotism. That woman is truly an American patriot. That was always her motivation until she was exposed. She was devastated by that. You see it when you meet her personally. Emotionally, it still hurts her. She thought what she was doing was right. If you think about it, they don’t get paid a tremendous amount of money. So, who does that and why do they do that? That for me is why they are such fascinating characters.
“As an actor, I think I’d never kind of reached the heights of fame that Naomi had and so when she came into my life it was a real test on our relationship because I didn’t like that she was bringing all that attention with her and I think I probably blamed her for it in the beginning.”
Together since
2005. They started dating just before starting to film the movie The Painted Veil by John Curran, where Liev Schreiber played the role of the protagonist’s (Naomi Watts) lover. “We were about three months into dating when filming commenced. At that stage you’re desperate to impress that person and wondering what they think of you rather than honouring your character. It gave me more reason to really focus.” [Harper's Bazaar Australia, May 2008]
Where they met
“Friends had been trying to hook us up for years, but the timing was never right,” Naomi explains. “Then I ran into him at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Gala [in 2005], and we spent the whole night talking and flirting. At some point I thought, ‘This night’s going to end and I might never see him again.’ So I said, in a cheeky way, ‘Don’t you want my digits?’ I can’t tell you why; in the past, I would never have done that. Literally, within seconds after [Liev] left, he texted me his number. I think he liked that I was a bit aggressive.” [Glamour, March 2008]
What’s their secret
Privacy: they don’t like attending social events (“My ideal night in is a good meal and a glass of wine with Liev. That’s heaven for me”), but at the same time they don’t want paparazzi to intrude much into their lives.
Irony: they often joke about the morbid attention of the media, pretending to have gotten married in a secret ceremony. The rumour started circulating in 2007, when Liev referred to Naomi as his wife in an interview, and in 2009: in a video shot in Israel, where they were planting trees for the Jewish National Fund, Liev said Naomi was his wife.
Things to know
They lived similar childhoods, in unconventional families.
Naomi was born in Kent, Great Britain: her father, Peter, was chief sound engineer and road manager of the band Pink Floyd, and her mother, Myfanwy, was a costume and set designer, and antique art dealer. At fourteen she moved to Australia with her mother and brother. “I dreamed of having a boring family for a long time,” she explains, “someone who could pick up me at school wearing tweed and not leather pants and boots. But in the end, I think this has been useful to me in opening the doors to a creative life.”[Vanity Fair Italia, May 19th, 2010]
When Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber enjoy a parents’ night out during her premiere of Mother and Child held Monday at NYC’s Paris Theater, their sons Sasha, 2, and Samuel, 16 months, are top of mind.
Raising sons is natural for the 41-year-old actress.
“I grew up a tomboy,” Naomi tells me. “I had a big brother, so I never had dolls or girly things. Despite the fact that they’re the opposite sex, I feel that I can relate.”
She laughs, “The only thing I miss about not having girls is the pretty dresses, but I can do that with my niece.”
Although Sasha and Samuel are home for the evening, they’ve had a fun time in NYC.
“Yesterday it was raining, so there wasn’t a lot to do – Play-doh,” she admits. “We went out to breakfast, which is always difficult, doing restaurants, because they’re both at an age [where they’re throwing forks]. We never really get to eat.”
Liev, 42, continues, “It’s been a lot of the zoo recently. It’s been a lot of swimming and zoo.”
Naomi adds, “Sasha’s obsessed with animals.”
Emotions got the better of Naomi Watts when she first watched a screening of her new film Mother & Child – because she could see her unborn son kicking in one special scene.
To cut costs, Watts, who plays a mum-to-be in the film, agreed to show off her real pregnant belly in the Rodrigo Garcia movie – and now she’s thrilled the magical moment was captured on film.
She tells WENN, “Here I had this growing belly and we needed a few shots but we actually only used one. It was a no-brainer because prosthetics never look convincing enough and the good ones are really expensive and this was a tiny budget, so Rodrigo popped on a plane and came with his cinematographer and he stole that shot.
“Now, when I watch it, I get very emotional because it was that moment between me and my baby and you see a little bit of movement because I drank some ice water and shook him (baby) up!”
Watts’ second son, Samuel Kai, was born in December, 2008.
Naomi Watts wants a daughter.
The Mulholland Drive actress – who has two sons, Sasha, two, and 15-month-old Samuel, with long-term partner Liev Schreiber – is considering extending her family further but is worried she will have another boy.
She said: “If I could guarantee myself a girl, I’d say yes to having more children… but I’d be sure to have another boy.”
The 41-year-old actress also admitted she constantly questions her choices when she is trying to juggle her family life with her career, but knows in her heart she is doing her best.
She added to She magazine: “I see myself as any other working woman. Every day I’m struggling to get it right, do the best I can, make the right choices for work, be a good mother and have time for my relationship with Liev. I’m never sure whether I’m doing any of it right, but I’ve finally got to the age where at least I know that I’m just doing my best.”
Francisco Costa, the creative director of Calvin Klein, has recently mentioned dressing Naomi:
The matchmaker
“I’ll never forget the first time we dressed Naomi Watts. It was this pale organza dress, the whole thing was ruffles, very crazy. She looked absolutely beautiful. She wore it to the Met [New York's famous Met Costume Institute Gala] and that was the night she met her husband. Those are the things that are cool – moments when you become part of people’s lives.”
The apple didn’t fall far the tree when it comes to 2 ½-year-old Alexander ‘Sasha’ Pete Schreiber — so says his mom, actress Naomi Watts.
“He’s acting now … a lot of acting,” she jokingly reported to Celebrity Baby Blog backstage at the Calvin Klein fashion show in New York City recently. Insisting that she’s “not a stage mother,” Naomi later revealed that her firstborn “likes to play little characters.”
With that said, her second child with fiancé Liev Schreiber — 14-month-old Samuel Kai — has also been giving the couple plenty of reasons to celebrate.
“Kai is definitely starting to talk. He says ‘book,’ ‘apple’ and ‘banana,’ ‘Sasha’ — his brother’s name — and ‘Mommy’ and ‘Daddy.’”
Sporting a dress and cashmere coat, Naomi, 41, appeared fresh and well-rested at the event — and for good reason!
“Both kids slept through,” she revealed. “It was a good night last night.”
– celebrity-babies.com
Naomi Watts breaks away from sons Alexander, 2, and Samuel, 1, during the Sundance Film Festival premiere of her drama Mother and Child held this week in Park City, Utah.
Being the only woman in the house she shares with the boys and fiancé Liev Schreiber, 42, means Naomi has to look beyond her immediate family when it comes to girl talk and activities.
“Oh yeah, there’s a lot of testosterone,” the actress, 41, tells OK!. “And I’ve got two male dogs. I know — I’m desperate. In Australia, all my girlfriends, we come together and take up a lot of space.”
Still, Naomi’s greatest joy can be found when she has all her men around.
Liev Schreiber, 42, recalled the early days of his courtship with Naomi Watts. Schreiber and Watts, 41, had just started dating when they were working on The Painted Veil (2006).
Watts had got Schreiber the part. But things got awkward when the on-screen lovemaking moved at a faster pace than the off-screen intimacy. He said: ‘I was chopped liver on that set.’
Schreiber has just opened his new play on Broadway, a revival of Arthur Miller’s A View From The Bridge with Scarlett Johansson and Jessica Hecht.
Schreiber, meanwhile, said the time spent away from his family over Christmas was dismal. ‘The kids went away and Naomi went away and I had one of those shotgun-in-the-bathtub holidays.”
Our lovely Naomi turns 41 years old today, September 28th, and we here at Blue Jewel would like to wish her a very Happy Birthday! Kick back and relax Naomi, because you deserve it! We hope you have a wonderful birthday with your loved ones, and that the year ahead brings you all you wish for.
As previously mentioned, I am unable to update the Gallery properly at the moment, for various reasons, so there will be no special birthday gallery update unfortunately … but stay tuned for a surprise here in the next few days … 
Mother And Child (2010) 
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010) 
Fair Game (2010) 
Dream House (2011) 
Untitled Comedy (2011) 
