"Oranges & Sunshine" with Emily Watson

Are people in England into like social media? Are they into Twitter? Are they into all that?

Yes, they are. I don't I know I did go to the Twitter website and there's a thing that says for those moments between vlogs when you're not connected. And I just thought, how does anybody have time to do this?

What's up, guys? Nikki Novak here in the Young Hollywood Studio with none other than Emily Watson. It's such a pleasure to have you here. You are the actress' actor. But you're sort of the anti-actor as well because you live You don't even live in You don't even live in the country.

Well, I live out of London. It's which is, you know, it's a choice and it's hard and you know, I don't come enough and I don't do enough and but it's my life. It's my family there. My kids go to school there and I'm a Londoner. I love it.

Other than so are you into because you do live over there. Are are people in England into like social media? Are they into Twitter? Are they into all that?

Yes, they are. I know I did go to the Twitter website and there's a thing that says for those moments between vlogs when you're not connected. And I just thought, how does anybody have time to do this? So, I just

Well, you're working.

I'm working. That's a good thing. I'm working and I'm a mom and yeah. So, orange isn't sunshine. Yes. What happened to these children is an outrage. We're hemmed, closed in here. He has this big stick and he'll The boys put this stone and that building together. We don't have any more information. Why don't you ask your own government? They're the ones who sent the kids out there. They need to find the families they lost. It's a true story of um basically children who were in the fifties and sixties mostly in in England who were deported children in care, orphan in orphanages who were deported wholesale to other countries in the Commonwealth. A lot of them went to Australia. Without any legal status, without legal guardians. Really, just they were just sort of signed off by the government, put on a ship and sent. And they were supposed to be adopted when they got there by lovely Australian families. And most of them ended up in horribly abusive children's homes. And there's this woman who I play in the film who really she was a social worker and she stumbled across it and has made it her life's work trying to reunite these people with what was left of their families. Tell find out where they came from. What happened to them? And make their story known and get some kind of reparation and um sense of identity.

Did you read that you didn't meet the actual person until after you finished filming?

I didn't. I met her after filming. I kind of instinctively just made a choice in them and they said, do you want to meet her? And I go, ah, no, I'm not sure. Um because I've played real people in the past and I've met family members and got quite involved with people and you can get too close. You don't want to sort of cast them in any kind of a bad light or say anything bad about them or do anything that might, you know, and you feel obligated to the person other than to the film. What was great on this film, it's directed by Jim Loach, who is the son of Ken Loach. And the whole set had this feeling of of that really and Jim is very, very gentle and you wouldn't really know if it's a rehearsal or take because it's so quiet and sort of just and you can just start filming and you don't really notice and it's very it's not a great big macho everybody yelling now go! When you had that before with directors. No, no.

Didn't you just work with Spielberg as well?

I did. He doesn't do that.

And I heard and another another great quote about him. He said that he wanted to work with you. You'd met him years ago, he wanted to work with you. Usually it's the other way around.

No, completely. I mean, I've always wanted to work with him. I did meet him here in in in um Hollywood.

Did you have tea with Spielberg?

We did actually. We had tea at Claridge's. That is

He's very fancy, yeah. So if you could invite anybody, let's say you're having tea with Spielberg and you could invite let's say three more people to come. Past or present.

Oh, that is such a rubbishly horrible question. How dare you? And now that it just makes me want No, that's really tricky because then I've got to be interesting and intelligent. I don't know. Henry VIII that'd be interesting.

I love it. Well, thank you so much for coming in. It's been a pleasure to talk to you. Best of luck. Good luck back in Mexico.

Thank you. We'll make the next film. Thank you.