By MICHAEL SMITH Movie Critic on Feb 9, 2012, at 4:54 PM Updated on 2/10 at 9:26 AM
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Naomi Watts
A woman born in England will play Princess Di on film, not a California girl.
Naomi Watts, who was raised in Australia but born in England, won the role in "Caught in Flight," a film that reportedly will show Diana during the last two years of her life.
This is a film project to which Jessica Chastain ("The Help," "The Tree of Life") was previously attached. But I have to imagine that there was tremendous pressure on the filmmakers to not cast an American (Chastain is from California) and instead cast someone British to play their icon.
If that is the case, the hiring of Watts is not that surprising to me. The director on this project is Oliver Hirschbiegel, a German filmmaker best known for his Oscar-nominated foreign film "Downfall."
But the director made his English-language debut in 2007 with "The Invasion," a remake of "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers." Hirschbiegel's star of "The Invasion" was Nicole Kidman.
Nicole's longtime best friend: Naomi Watts. In Hollywood, like in life sometimes, getting the right job can come down to who you know and having made the right connections.
You know Watts from "The Ring" horror film and its sequel. She fit into an ape's hand in "King Kong." Two of her most recent roles have seen her play real people: Valerie Plame in "Fair Game" and Helen Gandy in "J. Edgar."
But can you see her as Lady Di?
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