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"   In Mother and Child, the poignant story of three women whose lives converge due to disparate circumstances involving adoption, Naomi Watts plays Elizabeth, a neurotic lawyer who claims no close companions, starts a fling with her widowed boss, and simultaneously seduces one of the happy marrieds next door (tucking away her lingerie in the wife&amp;#039;s bureau as evidence so as to ensure ruining their connubial bliss). So was Watts daunted by this complicated character? &amp;quot;I was kind of afraid of this strength of hers; I didn&amp;#039;t understand how it worked,&amp;quot; she revealed to us while promoting the film in New York this week. &amp;quot;She&amp;#039;s often doing things that were very confusing to me. I understand that she&amp;#039;s a powerful woman, but is she evil? I think it was just that she&amp;#039;s in a lot of pain and has been badly wounded. She doesn&amp;#039;t hold men\u2014not just men, human beings\u2014in the highest regard.&amp;quot; She also discussed Elizabeth&amp;#039;s headstrong decision to have her tubes tied at the tender age of 17. &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s a wildly dramatic thing to do. At 17, most people get their ears pierced or get a tattoo. But that&amp;#039;s what I love about [writer-director Rodrigo Garcia]. He&amp;#039;s not conventional\u2014he&amp;#039;s someone who sees people in their extraordinary ways and forgives them.&amp;quot; Her role as outed CIA agent Valerie Plame in Doug Liman&amp;#039;s Fair Game\u2014set to premiere at Cannes \u2014had a different set of challenges. &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s a huge amount of pressure playing someone like Valerie. Who she is and what she&amp;#039;s done is wildly intimidating. It&amp;#039;s scary to take on that responsibility to honor her story\u2014such an incredible story that&amp;#039;s affected us all.&amp;quot;  \u2014Erin Clements Photo: Getty Images Follow ELLE on Twitter.    Become our Facebook fan! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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