Naomi Watts Believes Standards Have Changed for Older Women in the Industry: ‘Look at the Emmys Last Week… That’s Heartening to See’

The ‘Mulholland Drive’ star is at the San Sebastián Film Festival to screen Ben Shirinian’s ‘The Housewife,’ as well as to receive this year’s Donostia Award

British actor Naomi Watts , at the San Sebastián Film Festival to receive this year’s prestigious Donostia Award, spoke about opportunities in the industry for women over 50. Talking a week after Sarah Paulson told Variety about the lack of film offers following her spellbinding portrait of Marcia Clark in “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story,” Watts said, “things have changed.”