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In an exclusive interrogation with E! News, The Watcher stars Naomi Watts and Bobby Cannavale speech astir moving with "main attraction" Ryan Murphy connected the Netflix series.
The stars of The Watcher knew they had to accidental yes.
Naomi Watts and Bobby Cannavale play Nora and Dean Braddock, respectively, connected the spooky Netflix hit, based connected a existent communicative that went viral with a 2018 nonfiction successful The Cut. When she got upwind of the project—and who was acting arsenic the series' co-creator—Naomi said she didn't adjacent person to deliberation twice.
"The archetypal main attraction for maine was Ryan Murphy called," Naomi exclusively told E! News. "Of course, that's the telephone I had been hoping for for immoderate time. Then, I work the nonfiction and I got wholly swept up with it and imagined myself successful their shoes and conscionable thought this could beryllium anyone's story."
She added, "It's instantly compelling and I evidently americium a instrumentality of the genre. It was a nary brainer."
Bobby also said he "wasn't acquainted with the story," but it was a speech with Ryan—whose past enactment include American Horror Story, Ratched and Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story—that convinced him to motion on.
"He called maine and I ne'er met him before," Bobby revealed. "He said, 'I don't cognize astir you, but erstwhile COVID hit, I conscionable felt truthful powerless and I felt similar unequipped to support my family, and I've got the means to support my family. But this happening that we can't spot was terrorizing beauteous overmuch the full population.'"
Ryan used it arsenic an analogy for the communicative of The Watcher, which centers astir a dramatized mentation of the Broaddus family's story. In 2014, the household was terrorized by a bid of anonymous letters sent to their Westfield, N.J. location by idiosyncratic calling themselves The Watcher.
After proceeding Ryan out, Bobby was hooked.
"I deliberation Ryan has his digit connected the pulse of something," the 52-year-old histrion said. "Clearly, he's been doing it for specified a agelong clip and usually taps into the zeitgeist successful a truly absorbing way. I'm ever blessed to beryllium a portion of benignant of a creator's imaginativeness similar that."
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Naomi is evidently connected the aforesaid page, arsenic evidenced by the information that she's getting acceptable to enactment with Ryan again connected season 2 of FX's Feud. The 54-year-old histrion is acceptable to play socialite Barbara "Babe" Paley, who fell retired with famed writer Truman Capote successful 1975. Pride & Prejudice prima Tom Hollander volition prima arsenic Truman and, arsenic Naomi revealed to E! News, "we commencement successful November. "
All 7 episodes of The Watcher are disposable to watercourse connected Netflix.
- Reporting by Charles O'Keefe
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