{"id":370,"date":"2020-05-18T21:25:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T21:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/?p=370"},"modified":"2020-05-18T21:25:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T21:25:50","slug":"094-diana-with-richard-lawson-naomi-watts-part-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/2020\/05\/18\/094-diana-with-richard-lawson-naomi-watts-part-three\/","title":{"rendered":"094 &#8211; Diana (with Richard Lawson) (Naomi Watts &#8211; Part Three)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-371\" src=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/thob-diana.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/thob-diana.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/thob-diana-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/thob-diana-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As our Naomi Watts miniseries continues into its third week, we come to the biggest misfire therein: 2013&#8217;s reviled biopic <i>Diana<\/i>. With Watts taking on titular role, the film follows Princess Diana in her final days and her thwarted romantic relationship with surgeon Hasnat Khan (played bby Naveen Andrews). But in an attempt to avoid the salacious of headlines, the film became a bland failure and received much-earned bad reviews when it opened.<\/p>\n<p>Vanity Fair chief critic and Little Gold Men cohost Richard Lawson returns this week to talk about the actress&#8217;s path to a second Oscar nomination and how <i>Diana<\/i> quickly took the wind out of those sails. Yet another example of Watts working with the right director at the wrong time, the film also suffers from an ambivalent approach to its subject by director Oliver Hirschbiegel. On top of the film&#8217;s dullness, we discuss\u00a0how some felt its very existence missed the point of Diana Spencer&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>Topics also include the film&#8217;s symmetry to Nicole Kidman vehicle <i>Grace of Monaco<\/i>, KT Tunstall song cues, and teenage psycho twinks.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Us on Twitter!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Had_Oscar_Buzz\">@Had_Oscar_Buzz<\/a><br \/>\nJoe: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joereid\">@joereid<\/a><br \/>\nChris: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrisvfeil\">@chrisvfeil<\/a><br \/>\nRichard: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rilaws\">@rilaws<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9172\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-370-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_094_Diana_-_with_Richard_Lawson_-_Naomi_Watts_-_Part_Three.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_094_Diana_-_with_Richard_Lawson_-_Naomi_Watts_-_Part_Three.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_094_Diana_-_with_Richard_Lawson_-_Naomi_Watts_-_Part_Three.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_094_Diana_-_with_Richard_Lawson_-_Naomi_Watts_-_Part_Three.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/?powerpress_pinw=370-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_094_Diana_-_with_Richard_Lawson_-_Naomi_Watts_-_Part_Three.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"THOB_EP_094_Diana_-_with_Richard_Lawson_-_Naomi_Watts_-_Part_Three.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As our Naomi Watts miniseries continues into its third week, we come to the biggest misfire therein: 2013&#8217;s reviled biopic Diana. With Watts taking on titular role, the film follows Princess Diana in her final days and her thwarted romantic relationship with surgeon Hasnat Khan (played bby Naveen Andrews). But in an attempt to avoid &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/2020\/05\/18\/094-diana-with-richard-lawson-naomi-watts-part-three\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;094 &#8211; Diana (with Richard Lawson) (Naomi Watts &#8211; Part Three)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5,51,3,290,458,459,6,460],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-this-had-oscar-buzz","tag-academy-awards","tag-biopics","tag-movies","tag-naomi-watts","tag-naveen-andrews","tag-oliver-hirschbiegel","tag-oscars","tag-princess-diana","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}