Watts It All About?

Having Steamed up the screen with raunchy same-sex shenanigans in David Lynch's Mulholland Drive, Australian actress Naomi Watts has recently been getting in touch with her provincial side, starring alongside Christopher Walken in Welsh comedy Plots With a View. Swanning through town for the London Film Festival, Watts managed to set aside some time to tell Empire Online about her role in the tale of feuding funeral parlours. "I play a welsh girl," she chirps in a convincing lilt, "and I'm a bit of a tart. I cause a lot of trouble." Alfred Molina co-stars as a funeral director in a rural Welsh town, whose amorous advances towards local lass Brenda Blethyn are interrupted when some slick American competition (Walken) begins to steal his business. "There are a lot of different subplots going on, a lot of scheming and plotting. It's a good, wacky, farcical comedy. It's something completely different from the other things I've done." On working with embodiment of cool, Christopher Walken, Watts bemoans her lack of screen time with the actor, but admits to catching up with him after hours. "We got to hang out and talk and he's a true character, in the best possible way." Next up for Watts is Gore Verbinski's remake of cult Japanese horror film Ring. Terrifying audiences in Japan, the original film worked unexpected wonders at the box office, it's tale of a literal video nasty enough to inspire a timely Hollywood makeover. "It's horrific, it's truly disturbing and I'm really excited about it," said Watts of the role that will see her the focus of a hi-tech hex hidden within a deadly video tape. "It's is full of esoteric, weird things and you can't quite make out what it is or what it means. It looks like a bad student film, but when you've finished watching it, the phone rings and you're told you have seven days to live. My character sees it and a family member is caught up in it and killed so she has to work out how to stop it, and also save herself. She's a really smart, survivor chick ."