{"id":373,"date":"2020-05-25T20:39:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T20:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/?p=373"},"modified":"2020-05-25T20:39:22","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T20:39:22","slug":"095-st-vincent-naomi-watts-part-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/2020\/05\/25\/095-st-vincent-naomi-watts-part-four\/","title":{"rendered":"095 &#8211; St. Vincent (Naomi Watts &#8211; Part Four)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-375\" src=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/stvincent-thob-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/stvincent-thob-1.jpg 625w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/stvincent-thob-1-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nao-May comes to a close this week with <i>St. Vincent<\/i>, the 2014 film that starred Bill Murray as an old codger who learns to love while caring for a not-quite-precocious preteen. The dramedy targeted that elusive follow-up nomination for Murray after losing out for <i>Lost in Translation<\/i> a decade prior, not to mention holding promise for a dramatic turn from Melissa McCarthy. But it is perhaps most remembered by awards hounds for Watts\u2019s surprise SAG nomination as a pregnant Russian immigrant sex worker.<\/p>\n<p>This week, we look at Naomi\u2019s successful 2014 (that also included starring in Best Picture winner <i>Birdman<\/i>), her career post-<i>St. Vincent<\/i>, and what we imagine lies ahead for her career. We take another final look at Watts as a committed performer to sometimes unfortunate material, as evidenced by this film and&#8230; oof, <i>The Book of Henry<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Topics also include the film\u2019s rainsoaked TIFF premiere, embarrassing interviews on morning shows, and (once again) Jaden Mein Leiberher Martell.<\/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><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8604\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-373-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_095_St_Vincent_-_Naomi_Watts_-_Part_Four.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_095_St_Vincent_-_Naomi_Watts_-_Part_Four.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_095_St_Vincent_-_Naomi_Watts_-_Part_Four.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_095_St_Vincent_-_Naomi_Watts_-_Part_Four.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/?powerpress_pinw=373-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_095_St_Vincent_-_Naomi_Watts_-_Part_Four.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"THOB_EP_095_St_Vincent_-_Naomi_Watts_-_Part_Four.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>Nao-May comes to a close this week with St. Vincent, the 2014 film that starred Bill Murray as an old codger who learns to love while caring for a not-quite-precocious preteen. The dramedy targeted that elusive follow-up nomination for Murray after losing out for Lost in Translation a decade prior, not to mention holding promise &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/2020\/05\/25\/095-st-vincent-naomi-watts-part-four\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;095 &#8211; St. Vincent (Naomi Watts &#8211; Part Four)&#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":[5,79,462,461,3,290,6,463],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-this-had-oscar-buzz","tag-academy-awards","tag-bill-murray","tag-jaden-martell","tag-melissa-mccarthy","tag-movies","tag-naomi-watts","tag-oscars","tag-st-vincent","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","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=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}