Naomi Watts on “King Kong” Injuries: “Major. Well, not major - thankfully. But it felt like every day there was a new bruise, new pain of some sort. I did have a near major accident. I fell down a hole backwards, and it was about a five or six foot drop. It was a little bit terrifying because I was down in this hole, or ditch kind of thing, and my legs were in the air. And it was only about this deep, and I was physically jammed.
I couldn't move right away so I instantly thought, ‘Oh dear, I'm paralyzed or I've broken something. Something really, really bad.’ And all I could see was everyone looking up at me going, ‘Oh my god, oh my god, is she okay?’ And I was [crying] and the medic came over, and he was telling me not to move and all I wanted to do was move. I guess he was being careful to make sure that I hadn't broken anything. But really, most of what I could think about was, ‘My underwear is on display and everyone up there is looking at it.’ (Laughing) So I sort of knew once I had that thought that I must be okay. They got me out.
Everyone was very worried but, you know, we stopped shooting for that day and then I was fine. I mean, I tribute it to years of yoga, I think, because I'm very flexible. Literally my body went up into sort of a very strange shape. I was quite contorted (laughing).”
Naomi Watts on Chemistry with Adrien Brody and King Kong: “Well [laughs] – he is the ultimate man. He has everything you need. I mean, as someone said the other day, the combination – if those two men were molded into one, that would definitely make the perfect man (laughing). Well Adrien Brody, he plays the writer, he's the wordsmith. He's got all the words and then Kong has all the soul. And all the power, as well.”
Naomi Watts on Working with Andy Serkis: “Andy and I, you know, we tapped into each other right away. We knew what we had to do, the work that needed to be done in order to suspend disbelief and, you know, and we just both went there. There were times when we'd fall about laughing going, ‘What are we doing? This is the most peculiar thing.’ And then we had to let that run through us and then get back to it. We'd have to send ourselves up every now and again.
I gave Andy a Barbie, you know, because he was always up in this big tractor thing and that was my eye line. That created the scale. I couldn't fit in the palm of his hand, for when he's doing motion capture, so we gave him Barbie's and dressed them up.”
Naomi Watts’ Scream Broke a Hotel Window: “That is a true story. Now one part that you may not have known about was that basically what happened was, I was asked to scream on a live TV show. We were in a hotel on the balcony, and they had a hot light on the window that was going through to me on the balcony. I think the combination of my scream and the heat from that lamp just created some weird vibration and frequency, and it literally cracked from floor to ceiling.”
Naomi Watts on Her Stunt Double: “Oh yeah, there's a great stunt woman who helped me out but I tried to do as much as possible. They were happy for me to do a lot of the jumps and things, and the dangling from ladders and things like that.”
