Performer: Naomi Watts
From: “Mulholland Drive”
“Nothing would prepare you for the performance she pulled in that film. It’s such a strange kind of heightened almost ‘Leave It to Beaver’ reality they’re playing [in the first half], and then the pretense drops away and it becomes kind of shocking because it’s gone from a presentational style of acting to very sucker-punch-to-the-gut. And I realized, Oh, my God, this woman is utterly brilliant—she can take it to another level you didn’t expect at all.”
Gabriel Mann can be seen on ABC’s “Revenge.”
