Watts pulls off The Impossible to critical acclaim

LOS ANGELES – Days after the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, actress Naomi Watts took part in a fundraising telethon spearheaded by George Clooney to help the region’s hundreds of thousands of people in 14 nations whose lives were shattered.

Report by Reuters

Little did Watts know that eight years later she would be starring in The Impossible, out in the United States movie theatres today, about a real family’s experience in Thailand. The tsunami and earthquake killed more than 5 000 people, and resulted in 2 800 missing in that country alone.

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