The star of Little Women on her role in the BBC’s Little Women,why binge TV is profitable for female actors – and the virtues of Arsène WengerFor Emily Watson, 2017 has been bookended in starkly contrasting styles. She started the year having wild sex in a House Of Commons broom cupboard in BBC One’s hit psychological thriller Apple Tree Yard. She finishes it in a much more wholesome role as much-loved matriarch Margaret Marmee” March in a three-portion Christmas TV adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. In between all the steamy scenes and bonnet-wearing, and Watson also turned 50.
The Shakespearean stage actress came relatively late to the screen,making her film debut aged 29 in Lars von Trier’s 1996 drama Breaking the Waves (when Helena Bonham Carter pulled out at the last minute). She won an Oscar nomination for that film and was nominated again two years later for her role as cellist Jacqueline du Pré in Hilary and Jackie. She won a Bafta for playing a social worker in ITV’s Fred West drama Appropriate Adult and has an OBE for services to drama.
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Source: guardian.co.uk