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Fair Game (2010)



Naomi Watts plays Valerie Plame

Director: Doug Liman Writer: Genre: Drama, Biopic Filming: Filming started in Washington DC in March 2009. Budget: Box Office: Runtime:

Valerie Plame's status as a CIA agent was leaked by White House officials after her husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, wrote articles for the New York Times criticising the Bush administration's reasons for invading Iraq, suggesting that they had manipulated evidence about weapons of mass destruction to use as justification for the invasion.

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Sean Penn as Joseph Wilson

2010

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• Based on Valerie Plame's 2007 memoir, "Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House."
• Naomi's partner Liev Schreiber was shooting a film in which he played a spy at the same time Naomi shot this film. "Naomi and I both play CIA agents who appear normal. They aren't Hollywood's idea of a spy. We're both trying to figure out who they are," Liev says. Liev was playing a CIA chief in Salt, opposite Angelina Jolie.
• Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe were originally attached to star.
• This marks the 3rd time Naomi and Sean Penn have worked together - they were first seen together in 21 Grams (2003), and then in The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004).
• Director Doug Liman sent Naomi to a CIA boot camp to prepare her for this film, where she reportedly took part in interrogation sessions in which she was hooded, hand-cuffed and kicked about.
• The movie’s title comes from a quote from senior Bush adviser Karl Rove, that Joe Wilson’s wife was “fair game.

• Naomi Watts: "Actually, there are parallels. I take on characters. She had to take on personas, and identities. The difference is, if I do badly I just get panned by the critics. If she does badly, she could end up with a bullet in her head. (My job) is not so risky, right?" (at the Cannes Film Festival, on whether she is like Valerie Plame)
• Naomi Watts: “I may have been the only person I know of who was simultaneously breast-feeding and learning how to pack a weapon.” (on shooting the film just after she gave birth)
• Naomi Watts: "“They kicked my shins and knocked me down and I said, ‘Ow!’. But they said, ‘No. You don’t say ow until you actually have to go to the hospital.’” (on the boot camp she was sent to to prepare for the role)

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• IMDB
• Valerie Plame at Wikipedia