{"id":254041,"date":"2021-05-20T01:39:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T22:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/emily-watson-gets-too-close-in-tense-psychological-thriller\/"},"modified":"2021-05-20T01:39:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T22:39:45","slug":"emily-watson-gets-too-close-in-tense-psychological-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/emily-watson-gets-too-close-in-tense-psychological-thriller\/","title":{"rendered":"#Emily Watson gets ‘Too Close’ in tense psychological thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Emily Watson gets ‘Too Close’ in tense psychological thriller<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\u201cToo Close\u201d star Emily Watson has a personal relationship to the source material for the three-part psychological thriller, premiering Thursday (May 20) on AMC+.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s based on the titular 2018 novel by Natalie Daniels, the pen name used by Clara Salaman \u2014 one of Watson\u2019s oldest friends.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve known her for pretty much 50 years. We were at school together,\u201d the British-born Watson, 54, told The Post. \u201cClara is one of my oldest childhood friends. I read the book before it was published \u2014 Clara and I set and talked about it over lunch. She said, \u2018It hasn\u2019t been published yet. Will you read it? I think it might make for an interesting project and there are some great parts in it.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cI said yes, of course I would love to read it, but you\u2019re always in that situation where you feel nervous and it\u2019s a friend of yours and what if you don\u2019t like it and it\u2019s awkward? But I found myself really interested.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the series<\/a>, Watson plays Dr. Emma Robertson, a married forensic psychiatrist who\u2019s treating Connie Mortensen (Denise Gough), charged with attempted murder after purposely driving off a bridge into a river during a torrential downpour \u2014 taking her young daughter and a neighbor\u2019s daughter with her. All three survive; Connie, emotionally and physically scarred and in a psychotic state, claims to have no memory of the incident and reacts strangely when confronted by Emma, who attempts to connect the whys and hows of what happ<\/a>ened that night.<\/p>\n

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Connie (Denise Gough) in the days leading up to her attempted suicide in \u201cToo Close.\u201d<\/figcaption>
Robert Viglasky\/Jed Bessell\/AMC+<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The series plays out as a game<\/a> of emotional cat-and-mouse between Emma and Connie, who chide, provoke and manipulate each other during their sparring therapy sessions \u2014 while unlocking secrets both of them have kept from themselves and from others.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Emma has been like a closed porcelain structure that\u2019s got a crack in it and is just waiting for the right encounter to break it open, and that\u2019s Connie,\u201d Watson said. \u201cEmma has this idea of her self as being a very solidly secure professional person while, in fact, she hasn\u2019t really dealt with something in her past.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a common view of psychosis that somebody like Connie who\u2019s in that [emotional] place appears threatening and dangerous, and over the course of the three episodes I hope the audience is lead to a very empathetic understanding of how that happens \u2014 and how someone reaches that place.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the psychotic state she\u2019s in, she\u2019s terrified of looking into the reality of the situation,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen I talked to a forensic psychiatrist, she said the hardest moment of all is when someone dealing with this comes down, because that\u2019s the moment they come back to reality and realize what they\u2019ve done. Everything is working incredibly hard in that person to deny they\u2019ve done anything\u2026and a lot of that, unfortunately, involves harming people they love. That\u2019s the sort of mental energy and acuteness that state takes \u2014 and, in a way, it renders Connie intensely perceptive.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Connie (Denise Gough) is emotionally and physically battered in her psychotic state.<\/figcaption>
Robert Viglasky\/Jed Bessell\/AMC+<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Watson said that Connie also forces Emma to confront her demons, particularly one incident in her recent past that continues to haunt her.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think [Emma] has undoubtedly gone through all the processes she\u2019s supposed to go through \u2014 grief counseling, the stages of grief \u2014 but does she know how to process those things? No, and there\u2019s a secret at the center of it she\u2019s never confessed to her husband about exactly how things happened \u2014 because the guilt is too terrible.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

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