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| • | "In filming a movie [Angela's Ashes (1999)]...the movie is why I am smoking. Angela smokes two packs a day, so I am calling this research...I didn't smoke before [the movie] I am afraid to say. But it's quite addictive.", Philadelphia Weekly, Jan. 13-20, '98
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| • | smoked Silk Cuts, started smoking to play cellist Jacqueline Du Pre in the recent film "Hilary and Jackie" and continued smoking for the upcoming film Angela's Ashes, Sunday Times (UK), Nov. 29, '98 |
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| • | "'It's tough', Watson said with a sigh, relaxing in a hotel suite at the end of an arduous shooting day, lighting a cigarette and sipping at a glass of red wine", Los Angeles Times , Dec. 22, '98 |
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| • | "She lights up a cigarette, explaining that she only took up smoking for [Angela's Ashes (1999)]. 'Angela smokes 40 Woodbines a day in the film, but I'm going to quit as soon as we finish shooting'", Irish Times, Dec. 24, '98 |
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| • | "British actor Emily Watson insists she's not a smoker as she frantically scours the room for an ashtray", Toronto Sun, Jan. 2, '99 |
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| • | "British actor Emily Watson insists she's not a smoker as she frantically scours the room for an ashtray. 'It's just that I'm in the middle of shooting [Angela's Ashes (1999)], and Angela smokes four packs a day', she explains, holding up a pack of smokes. 'So this is research', she smiles. Watson deserves, or needs, a good drag ... taking a long inhale on her cigarette", Ottawa Sun, Jan. 2, '99 |
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| • | "She slips off her shoes and tucks bare feet under her legs, lighting a cigarette... Watson pauses to drag on her cigarette", Washington Post, Jan. 17, '99, p. G1
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| • | "Most people want to know if she's a 'fruitcake,' Emily Watson says, legs tucked under her on a sofa in a hotel bar, puffing on Silk Cut cigarettes", Associated Press, Jan. 21, '99 |
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| • | "'It's research. Please don't tell anyone I've started smoking again,' says Emily Watson, puffing madly on a cigarette before butting out to begin her interview. She quickly explains that her character in Angela's Ashes is a smoker, but concedes: 'I quit smoking six years ago but ever since I started smoking again for Angela's Ashes, I know I'm hooked again.'", Calgary Sun, Jan. 30, '99 |
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| • | "Watson fetches an ashtray as she settles down to talk, adding that she only took up smoking for the movie [Angela's Ashes (1999)]. 'Angela smokes 40 Woodbines a day in the film', she explains. But this is Emily's day off. 'I know,' groans the actress. 'I'm going to quit as soon as we finish shooting'", Irish Times, Jan. 30, '99 |
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| • | "Emily Watson, in the running for the Oscar for a second time, took a drag from her cigarette and quickly extinguished it - looking like a naughty little girl who had been caught with her hands in the cookie jar. 'Don't tell anyone I'm smoking again. It's research for a role. I'm in [Angela's Ashes (1999)] and that woman smokes. I quit years ago but, to tell you the truth, I think I'm hooked again' ... she casually lit another cigarette, and with no apologies this time", The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, Feb. 14, '99 |
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| • | "Emily Watson starts the interview with an apology - for smoking. 'I'm working on [Angela's Ashes (1999)], and my character goes through 40 Woodbines a day. So I find myself smoking' ... Still, her rookie Oscar night was a treat, she says, lighting another cigarette", Rochester (NY) Democrat and Chronicle, Feb. 17, '99 |
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| • | quit - "She chain-smoked on- and offscreen [for Angela's Ashes (1999)] but has since quit.", USA Weekend, Dec. 19, '99
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| • | "Watson's new year resolution is going to have to be to quit smoking - her new play's made her addicted to nicotine. 'I didn't mean to take up smoking, it just happened. Within a week I was on 20 Silk Cuts a day'", World Entertainment News Network, Jan. 2, '00 |
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| • | quit - "plays the chain-smoking mother [in Angela's Ashes]...and she found herself becoming hooked on nicotine for real. 'I didn't mean to take up smoking, it just happened...I'd smoked years before and I'd tried herbal cigarettes on set before - they are disgusting. Angela smoked 40 Woodbines a day, but I got them to make Silk Cut look like Woodbines - but within a week I was on 20 a day.' She managed to quit after several months.", Sunday Express (UK), Jan. 2, '00 |
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| • | quit - "'I took up smoking' [for Angela's Ashes (1999)], adding that she quit since doing the movie", Houston Chronicle, Jan. 18, '00
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| • | "Emily had quit smoking in 1994, but just can't manage to quit again", World Entertainment News Network, Jan. 20, '00 |
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| • | quit - "Q Was learning to smoke for the role [in Angela's Ashes] a challenge? A That wasn't as bad as stopping afterwards; I couldn't. Then I was feeling run down. I saw the doctor, and he said, 'Well, if you will smoke...' I said 'That's it, then,' and stopped immediately'", Mail on Sunday (You Magazine) (UK), Jan. 23, '00 |