And I was like, I trust your eye more than anyone's. She did lots of recordings of her doing the physical transfers as well as coming to the set because I actually said, can you please be here for this day? Because I'm having trouble, and we'd have to do multiple takes. And again, Sam was very available and generous with her time. You know, like when Andrew Lincoln, who plays Cam, my husband, is picking me up, you help the lift just by instinct. But with Sam, it was so hard to, you know, really try and tell the bottom half of your body from basically the bra strap down to not move. The physicality is usually something I really enjoy. But that's limited here due to Sam's paralysis. A lot of acting, of course, depends on body language, you know. GARCIA-NAVARRO: Yeah, Naomi, this is, I guess, a process question that I am curious about. And the words on the page just really gave it to me in really clear ways. WATTS: And - yeah, because I think she found it hard to express sometimes. And when she could tell that I was really digging deeper and deeper, she actually said, do you want to just read my journals? And she couldn't have been more generous with her time. And we just spent lots of time on the phone, Facetiming, talking about her journey of recovery. And then we just had a lovely, polite breakfast, chatted away. We had our first meeting in a group setting - just her and her husband, Cam. WATTS: She's really just a lovely woman that, you know, you don't get all at once, not the easiest upfront read. Can you tell me a little bit about her personality, what she's like? GARCIA-NAVARRO: You actually met the real Sam Bloom while preparing and filming this role. Naomi Watts plays Sam Bloom in the new movie "Penguin Bloom," which is based on a true story. The rescued bird helps her accept her new condition. As she struggles to adapt to life in a wheelchair, she finds an unlikely connection with a magpie named Penguin. GARCIA-NAVARRO: Sam falls and is paralyzed from the chest down. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character, screaming). Sam Bloom and her family were on vacation in Thailand when their whole lives changed.
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