Naomi Watts said on Tuesday that she almost quit acting before David Lynch cast her in Mulholland Drive.

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Watts said "the chips were down" and she was "desperate" for work after "10 years into flunking auditions" in Hollywood before Lynch agreed to work with her.

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“I was literally alienating people ... old; I’m too this, too that. He just saw me and was able to sort of lift these veneers.” Watts played Betty Elms and Diane Selwyn in Mulholland Drive.

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such as in Eraserhead and Mulholland Drive, had recently revealed his battle with emphysema. A lifelong smoker, Lynch attributed the illness to a habit he began when he was only eight years old.

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