Naomi Watts as Princess Diana in her latest movie
Prince George Alexander Louis has finally arrived and this fall, his late grandmother makes it to theaters, as embodied by Naomi Watts.The actress tackles the role of Princess Diana, in a drama that examines the last two years in the Princess of Wales' life. In Diana, opening in September, Watts transforms into the beloved royal to explore her campaign against land mines and delve into her relationships with surgeon Hasnat Khan (Naveen Andrews) and Dodi Fayed (Cas Anvar).
Over the last few months fans of Naomi Watts and Princess Diana alike have been given sneak peeks of how she will look in the upcoming movie biopic, Diana. The first film poster has now been released of the movie, showing the actress looking the spitting image of the princess on the new poster as anticipation mounts over its September release.
To ensure that she resembles the People’s Princess in both appearance and behavior, Watts reportedly spent six weeks working with a dialogue coach, studied Diana’s 1995 interview with Martin Bashir, and was fitted with a prosthetic nose and four wigs. Additionally, News Ltd reports that the actress wears several custom-made designer replicas of dresses worn by Diana as well as a few Jacques Azagury ensembles that belonged to the princess herself.
Here take a look at the pictures of Naomi Watts as she embodies the Late Princess Diana in her new movie -
Naomi is the spitting image of Diana's Mario Testino portrait for Vanity Fair published just months before her untimely death in a car crash in 1997.
Left - Naomi in the movie. Right - Princess Di in the memorable cerulean one-shoulder dress she donned at a charity appearance in 1996.
The princess-playing Naomi Watts looks like the beloved royal in a bright blue suit reminiscent of the same color-coordinated outfit that Diana wore at a Core Trust event in London on September 19, 1990.
Left - Naomi in the movie. Right - A week before her death in 1997, Princess Diana perched on her beau Dodi Al-Fayed's family yacht.
In one shot, Naomi recreates the image of Diana on BBC Panorama
Left - Naomi Watts in costume on the set of Diana. Right - Diana, Princess of Wales, wearing a dress by Jacques Azagury on her 36th birthday in 1997.
Left - Princess Diana sported a print suit to jet-ski with princes William and Harry in St-Tropez, France, in July 1997. Right - Naomi in the movie.
Left - Princess Diana's trip to Sarajevo to meet land mine victims in 1997. Right - Naomi in the movie
The biopic depicts the paparazzi obsession with Diana, and her bid to escape the lens
So tell me what do you think of the looks potrayed by Naomi Watts as the Late Princess Diana?
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