![]() Why is Paul Thomas Anderson such a good director of actors? Whilst I am sort of a serious European actress, with no sense of humour and all that! We had a respect, fascination, and nervousness and curiosity around each other - we weren't acting that. To me he's a very, very American comedian, who speaks a language that I don't understand. ![]() Paul and I learnt a lot from Adam - he just opens the door and sees what falls through. What was it like to act opposite Adam Sandler? You don't necessarily see somebody's psychological baggage, you see the person walking out of the light. The film is about how you see the world when you're in love. In a way she's somebody's dream, she's not really a real person. Her language is oblique and strange and sideways. I am so used to really challenging 'acting' roles, whilst with Lena everything is veiled and very subtle for lots of different reasons. What was your initial reaction towards your character, Lena Leonard? He said, "I'm doing this film with Adam Sandler and I'm writing a part for you." And I said, "Fine." He asked me what I wanted to do next, and I said "I'm not interested in weeping and wailing and crying and dying." He was in a similar frame of mind, because he had made "Magnolia". I was in LA promoting another film in the summer of 2000 and I met up for lunch with the director, Paul Thomas Anderson. How did you become involved with "Punch-Drunk Love"? ![]() After playing the blind lover of a serial killer in commercial hit " Red Dragon", she's now playing Adam Sandler's girlfriend in Paul Thomas Anderson's "Punch-Drunk Love". Best known for harrowing roles in distressing movies ("Breaking the Waves", "Hilary and Jackie", "Angela's Ashes"), Emily Watson has changed tack in recent times. ![]()
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