Naomi Watts’ nerves for Mulholland Drive masturbation scene gave her “explosive something or other”
Naomi Watts admits her climactic Mulholland Drive scene was "traumatizing" and sent her to the bathroom
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Tuesday has been a great day for “celebrities are so relatable” news. And what’s more relatable than a nervous stomach? Who among us hasn’t, at one time or another, been so anxious that it gave us the shits? You don’t think about this happening to preternaturally beautiful women like Naomi Watts, but she, too, has run to the bathroom in distress from nerves. (The “Hot Girls With IBS” community is surely standing in solidarity today.) The mind-body connection is real, people, and it does not discriminate.
Watts gifted us with this bit of honesty in conversation with Jonathan Bailey for Variety’s “Actors On Actors” series. Bailey had a masturbation scene in Fellow Travelers, and it made him think of Watts’ masturbation scene in the David Lynch classic. “Oh, Mulholland Drive. Yes. I was traumatized,” Watts admitted of the scene. She laughed: “I remember having to go to the bathroom multiple times because I think I might have been having explosive something or other.”
Look, Watts may have too much class to say the word diarrhea, but we all know what she’s talking about! And having to do such an intense and intimate scene would cause anybody’s stomach to act up. “I was so in butterflies. I was freaked out, and David knew that, but he didn’t want to not get the scene. And I kept sort of attempting it and going, ‘I can’t do this, David. I can’t do it,’” she recalled. “He was always off at the other side of the room in a black tent or something, and actually he made it very private for me.”
Watts said the way she was sectioned off on the set helped her “feel a little bit safer,” but she “kept crying” trying to act out what was required of her in the moment. That made it more difficult, because Lynch “didn’t want an emotive scene; he wanted someone who was angry and trying to reconnect with an erotic moment that she’d shared with Laura Harring’s character,” she explained. “It was making me emotional and vulnerable.” Girl, we’ve all been there. Well, not there-there, but you know, there, on the toilet somewhere, nervously pooing.
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I’m sure she was sectioned off partly to feel “safer” but also partly because of her stinky poops.
Lynch, holding nose and spraying Febreze: Totally respect *tssssh* your privacy for this scene *tssssh* Naomi I’m just – oh god my eyes – *tsssh* gonna be in this tent *tsssh* with twenty scented candles in it *tsssh* action!
breathe happy Febreeze, La-la-la-la-la!
I mean, I’ve seen masturbation sometimes cause something else explosive that she might not want to have shared on a movie set.
Spontaneous combustion?Kerosene is not water-soluble.
Insufficiently lubricated friction certainly could raise the temperature enough, but liquid kerosene also is difficult to ignite. Maybe once the temperature causes enough of it to evaporate into fumes, but those same fumes are likely to stop one’s ability to continue to apply the friction.Oh and kerosene is pretty greasy so it probably would work as a lubricant. I will leave it to others to test that one out for themselves.
There’s an extremely niche nursing home joke I could make here.
Before I clicked I thought Naomie Watts was so traumatized that she was diagnosed with Intermittent Explosive Disorder and I thought an article about Naomie Watts having Intermittent Explosive Disorder would be sort of interesting so I clicked and it was about poop which was disappointing. That’s my story.
Another clear-as-mud AV Club headline!
Just like you – alone
Are we sure it wasn’t something else that was explosive? Do you people just not watch enough porn?
Holy fuck, Naomi Watts looks amazing! Is she a vampire, or some kind of immortal? What’s her secret? Goat placenta, monkey sweat? Is it holy water?
Apparently she’s friends with Nicole Kidman, so I assume they’re both working the same type of dark magic.
Thought that was Sandra Bullock?
You can tell Nicole’s age by her withered, red hands though. Naomi perfected the spell.
Kidman’s face is finally settling into something resembling normalcy since that fright mask she had done a few years ago. She needs an intervention to be sure she doesn’t try it again. Meanwhile Watts is a case study in aging gracefully.
Not sure if you’ve seen her recently, but Nicole Kidman looks like she murdered Nicole Kidman and is wearing her face.
that magic is enjoying amc theaters. it can happen for you too!
It’s hard to imagine Watts not being hot. I’ll be ready to date Grandma Naomi years from now!
For real. I basically never post comments about any celebrity’s looks but damn, I do not get it. She looks 1) nearly the same age and 2) arguably MORE attractive than when she was in Mulholland Drive. And that was however many years ago, let’s see now (googles it, does some math, kills self)(comes back from the grave just to say this:) She and Julia Louis Dreyfuss have some incredible genes, apparently.
I’m waiting for the day we find out her, JLD, Paul Rudd, Sigourney Weaver and Joseph Gordan Levitt all have a piece of the same ancient amulet or something.
It’s wholly water.
Wholly Moses!
Australian women have a kind of Dorian Gray dealie. But instead of a withered face in a painting growing old at an alarming rate, it’s Australian men.
That scene sent me to the bathroom multiple times as well. Knowwhattimean?
Cut it off next time you get the urge
You can get a UTI from that.
front to back front to back
So Ray Davies was wrong?
DON’T ruin this for me!This is as bad as when I heard about how Phoebe Cates got up out of the pool, popped her top and cut a loud still-wet-from-the-pool fart.
Shut up
Do NOT mess with me!
I mean…at least Lynch didn’t tell her to actually DO it like we heard happened to Aubrey Plaza. That discomfort (uh maybe physical also) came across as self-loathing in the scene and really worked.