Miss Potter
Emily Watson
It was a decade ago that Emily Watson received her first Oscar nomination. She sits down with Harry Smith to discuss her latest movie, Miss Potter.
Thirty years old and single, Beatrix Potter lives in London with her social-climbing parents, who are exasperated that she has turned down any number of eligible young men. Her only real friends are the animals which since childhood she has lovingly drawn and made up stories about. She finally succeeds in selling a book of the stories, and it becomes Norman Warne's first project. He quickly falls in love with both the book and Beatrix and together they carefully arrange publication. This proves to the first of many successes, giving the authoress a chance to escape from both her parents' way of life and London.