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Emily Watson thinks “you have to be a bit of an idiot to be an actor”. The 57-year-old star – who has enjoyed a hugely successful career on stage and screen – admits she was “very, very green” when she was nominated for an Oscar for her debut film role in ‘Breaking the Waves’, the 1996 melodrama film. Speaking to the Observer newspaper, Emily recalled: “I was very, very green and I was just going where I was told. I don’t think I ever had an instinct for it; you either have or you haven’t. “I think I’m good at what I do because I’m an idiot. You have to be a bit of an idiot to be an actor.” As…