While the cast of the Divergent franchise is headlined by relative new faces like Shailene Woodley and Theo James, there are also a host of accomplished actors and actresses who take part in the series including Kate Winslet, Naomi Watts and Octavia Spencer.

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Speaking with MTV on Monday, Watts talked about her decision to join the cast for this young adult adaptation series, and why she even made the choice to jump on for a total of three films in the series.

"They're such lovely people," she said of the cast, calling them "wildly, wildly talented."

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Watts will portray Evelyn, Four's (James) mother and the leader of the Factionless. She was responsible for the idea of destroying the Erudite so that Jeanine (Winslet) would lose control of the government, but deceived the Dauntless into believing that their goal was to restore the peace of the old faction system, when her true goal was to abolish factions.

In the Insurgent book, Evelyn convinces Tobias to become a Dauntless leader in order to ally with the Factionless. After the alliance defeats the Erudite and the traitor Dauntless, the Factionless take control of all the weapons before Tobias plays the video. Tobias believes his mother while Tris (Woodley) does not.

Having an big name like Watts attached only adds more pedigree to the series and should allow for this role to be not only important to the story, but also have a great actress behind it.

Insurgent is directed by Robert Schwentke and is opening in theaters on March 20, 2015.

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