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Naomi Watts practised Diana voice on her children
Biopic star says it was ‘scary’ to get the voice right.
Naomi Watts practised her Princess Diana lines on her children to get the accent right.
The actress - who plays the title role in ‘Diana’ - said in an interview with Yahoo Movies UK: “The hardest thing, I would say, would be the voice and the dialect. I haven’t been living in Britain for a long time, so I think people don’t even think of me as being properly British. So to get back to those vowel sounds and things like that? Even when I was living here my accent didn’t sound anything like hers!”
“I worked with a dialect coach every single day. And every time I went out of the house I had my iPod on and listened [to the voice].”
“I would read aloud to my children sometimes,” she laughed. “Annoyingly for them, I’m sure.” And a bit weird, we suspect.
Judge for yourself if she did a good job by watching the trailer below.
[Listen: Is this the awkward moment Naomi Watts walks out of an interview?]
Director Oliver Hirschbiegel, the man behind 2004’s Oscar nominated ‘Downfall’, also explained why no other members of the Royal Family appear in the movie.
“[The] last two years [of Diana’s story] are pretty much about her being with Hasnat Khan, as a fascinating universal love story - which is what drew me towards it.
“She’s basically on good terms with Charles, but it’s not about him and her... There’s nothing to tell [about their relationship] really. She is with Hasnat Khan, he is the man she loved.”
One scene in the movie does feature a young Wills and Harry in the background, but Oliver said it “didn’t sit right” to include anymore of the young Windsors.
“I had a couple of scenes with the sons, but it didn’t feel right to have them in there. It felt like we stepped over a line” he said. “And everybody knows she loved her sons in the first place. I just wanted to focus on that love story - which is a unique one really.”
Watch the rest of our interview with Naomi and Oliver above. She stayed right to the end, unlike her interview on ‘Kermode and Mayo’s Film Review’, which saw the actress reportedly walk out.
‘Diana’ is out in the UK on 20 September 2013.
