Emily Watson

What do you mean?

Well, I think possibly there's a lot of parts that I've played have been, you know, had a lot of trauma and sadness involved in the nature of the roles.

But I think you are putting yourself into an emotional place, which is pretend you're pretending, but your body doesn't know the difference.

All the stress hormones and your kind of neural pathways are doing the thing that they would do.

And you're not just doing it the once, you're doing it over and over and over.

How do you deal with that then?

That must be really difficult.

You have to learn to sort of regulate yourself physically.

And, you know, you come away from doing a big scene and you feel like you've been through the ringer and you have to...

I have a friend who actually, who's a wonderful actress, who's had to recently wear a, for health reasons, she's had to wear a blood sugar monitor.

Blood glucose thing.

And she said that not having eaten or drunk anything when she's acting, it's going up and down like crazy.

Because of all the stress hormones and all the things that your blood is doing in response to the emotional story that's going on in your chemistry.

So do you worry about that?

I mean, the body keeps the score.

Well, exactly.

The body keeps the score.

I do worry about it.

But I think being an actor is like, you know, you're sort of an amateur psychologist anyway.

And really annoying amateur at a lot of things.