Naomi Watts and Andrew Lincoln on Working Alongside Real-Life Bloom Family in ‘Penguin Bloom’

Watts also opens up about the learning curves of filming in a wheelchair.

Naomi Watts is shining a light on disability and healing from trauma with an unlikely hero at its center in her new drama Penguin Bloom.

The film is based on the true story of Australian mother Sam Bloom who, while vacationing in Thailand over the holidays with her husband Cameron and three boys, fell 20 feet from the roof of their hotel’s balcony after a rusty railing gave away and fell to the concrete below. The accident fractured her skull, ruptured her lungs, shattered her spine in several places and left her paralyzed from the chest down.