Emily Watson thinks "you have to be a bit of an idiot to be an actor". The 57-year-old star - who has enjoyed a hugely successful career on stage and screen - admits she was "very, very green ...

Emily Watson did not have a typical childhood, and she admitted that her upbringing in a cult-like group helped her with her latest role in Dune: Prophecy. Watson, 57, plays Valya Harkonnen ...

Emily Watson: Yes, and we’ve got every chance of it heading in a smart direction, because with Series 1, we had a bit of strike on us. We got a lot of movement, things going quite crazy ...

Emily Watson has explained that her upbringing in a cult-like group helped her to prepare for 'Dune: Prophecy' as she understands "the sense of young lives being controlled and a sense of ...

EMILY WATSON: That's a good question. OLIVIA WILLIAMS: For me, it was weird to find because, actually, the thing where you find out who Tula is is played by another actress. She’s so good!

Watson doesn’t blame her parents for sending her to the school. “They came from a very troubled generation,” she tells me, smoothing out the sleeves of her roomy black smock.