Samantha Morton’s most diverse role was when she played Sarah O’Brien, a surgeon’s daughter who he personally trained in his technique and skill, in the 2005 movie River Queen in which she played an Irish woman who had fallen in love with a Mori man, Tommy Boy, and bore his son named Boy. Her son was stolen from her when he was but six tears old by his uncle Wiremu. She spends the next few years searching for her son as she travels with the Army, and committed friend Sgt. Doyle, ordered to clear the lands of the Mori.
She plays the pivotal role of woman torn between the love of her son, and a woman who wants to stop the fighting and killing between the tribe and the Army. She flip flops many times between doing what is right, and doing what she feels in just by helping to heal both sides wounded. In the end she falls in love with Wiremu, and now with the Army on her tail, she makes the decision to turn on all she knows in order to keep her son and the man she loves. The role was both pivoting and powerful role that not just any woman would have been able to pull off, with the exception of Samantha Morton.Still bored? Click to continue: The 9 O’Clock News – Wed 12 Mar