Two and half months ago Naomi Watts said:
“I look at those romantic comedies, and I see actors with perfect hair and six-packs, and I feel myself being numbed, and I get angry because I see so much money spent on these things. I don’t mean to sound righteous here,” she continues. “There is need for it, because there are times when I am in a hotel room and need to be numbed.”
“I want a big paycheck, so put me in some dumb romantic comedy any day.”
Naomi Watts will top line First Look Pictures’ adaptation of Amy Sutherland’s “Kicked, Bitten and Scratched: Life and Lessons at the World’s Premiere School for Exotic Animal Trainers.”
Kristin Hahn and Dana Adam Shapiro will produce the project, developed as a romantic comedy.
Yay! She got her wish! I hope this project is a super duper big paycheck and mind-numbingly dumb on all counts. I hope it is a true affront to humanity so Naomi can rest easy. To recap the issue was not that rom-coms were bad; the issue was that no one had cast her in one yet. You got your wish princess.