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Kate Winslet

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“Control yourself. You really get, you're like, oh my God, what am I going to do? Now what am I going to do? It's gone. I can't do it. You can't look at that person. It's absolutely awful. Anyway, that, even though I know it doesn't sound that funny, it was so funny. And that is the funniest moment of my career. There you go. I don't know whether that makes me really sad or just really amused by Leo DiCabrio eating chocolate.”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Say action, and Leo and I would go. No, okay It's not funny. Okay, yeah, let's go. Action. This went on for well over an hour. Every time they would say, and finally Sam got, he was like, oh, for God's sake, went outside. He was like, sort yourselves out. And we were like, oh my God, we're never going to do it. Oh my God, what we're going to do? What are we going to do? We're laughing. We're never going to do this. In the end, we had to, Leo had to sit eight inches to the right so that I could stare at a piece of tape that they put just below the camera so that was his face but he was there because and he stared at my earlobe we could not look each other in the eye and even now i will sometimes say to him oh my god you remember that moment with the chocolate's like oh please don't even remind me he's like i get literally give me anxiety just to remember it because it's terrible as an actor and it never happens to me but if you crack up laughing and you can”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Why didn't you tell me? And vomit comes out. It was almost like that, Leo goes, and sprays this chocolate all over the table, which had this white napkin all over the floor, which was a white carpet. And he's going, I'm cracking up, laughing, and I'm saying to him, what the hell is the matter with you? What's wrong? What is it? And he just looks at me with this chocolate dripping dripping down his face all onto his costume. He's like, that was horrific cherry. Obviously it's not that funny. It's not that funny at all. It was hilarious. We were in absolute hysterics. We were in our own little Kate Leo mad little thing. We are absolutely cracking up, laughing to the point that we can no longer look each other in the eye. But we haven't finished filming the scene. So it was one of those moments where someone would”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I really want some chocolate. I said, oh, that's a good idea. What should we have? I said, should we have like a twix or something? He said, no, no, no. We need to get like a bunch of chocolate. Let's hook me ask. So I said, I said, oh, you know, I asked one of the film crew, one of the ADs, would you mind, could you possibly get Leo and I some chocolate? This lovely AD brings this little bowl of chocolate. And they put it on the table and it's all bits of broken up like dairy milk and green and blacks and different flavors and, you know, some's got nuts in, some's got fruit in. We can see. So we start eating this chocolate. Oh, that's nice. Oh, that one's got ginger. Oh, that's honeycomb, I think that one is. Leo suddenly puts this piece of chocolate in his mouth, starts chewing, and goes, spits out literally like, you know, in Little Britain, David Walliams plays that character that goes, Marjorie.”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I wouldn't want to play Hamlet. I think that'd be too much pressure. Just a man. I just would like the experience of playing a man to see what that feels like. I don't know. Maybe that's a really controversial answer. I have no idea. But the first part, what was the funniest moment? Okay, I really am telling a story now that I have never publicly told. There was a film that I did with Leo called Revolutionary Road that was directed by Sam Mendez. Sam and I were married at the time. And we were filming a scene that comes at the end of the story when Frank and April are having breakfast together. It's all lit very white and beautifully in this room and April is making scrambled eggs for Frank. I played April, Leo played Frank, and they're sitting together at the table and they have a conversation. Anyway, we stop filming for a little break while they're moving the lights around. And Leo looks at me and he's like,”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Believe that acting is your passion and it's what you want to do then do the work and keep going for it just keep trying and do it a lot do it in front of the mirror do it with your friends do it you know learn scenes learn poems have fun experimenting with different voices and that's how you build up your confidence because you'll start to learn things about yourself as you go through that that really really fun process acting is experimenting there is no right or wrong way and there is no such thing as perfect in general so that's that one that's that one”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So Louisa, Louisa in Germany, is that her name, Louisa. So Louisa, the one thing that I would want to say to you more than anything else is welcome to the greatest job in the world. If you choose to do this job for a living, it is truly fantastic. But I do need to tell you that you have to be patient and always do the work, always concentrate, always really try your best and trust your instinct. You know, listen to that little voice inside you that will always be your friend and never give up, never, ever give up. Even if anyone says to you, oh, well, you know, you'd be more suited to this thing. Are you sure you really want to do that? You know, you need to train and do this other job. Or what about this thing? If you truly...”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Do you want me to be in the car? And she was like, Do you mind? And I said, Absolutely. So I was in the boot of the car just because I just knew it just made them feel better to have that person who could put their hand up and say, actually, we're going to cut now. You know, is everyone feeling okay? You know, sometimes directors even don't feel comfortable communicating with actors about intimate scenes, even if it's just kissing. Sometimes there are conversations that could be uncomfortable to have. You don't all know each other necessarily that well. And so it's important, it's very, very important to always speak up, always say actually I don't feel comfortable with that, do you mind? And really think about the moment.”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Subject at that part of the story and I wasn't about to question her on her own sexual identity. It wasn't my business at all, but I just got the sense that she was nervous. And I said to her, you know, I'm going to be around. I'm going to stay for this. I'm not going to leave the set. And she was like, oh my God, Kate, thank you so much. Anyway, I actually ended up being in the car. I was in the boot of the car because I looked at this vehicle and it was this two young actresses together in the front seats of the car and two absolute gentlemen but two male camera operators in the car with them being the only other people in their space and that I was like that's not they need to know that they can say actually I don't feel comfortable lovely respectful men who've been in the industry for years but I just said I said to An Gary”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That friend really, sometimes you just need to have someone to say, oh look, can you ask him to not put his hand there? You know, just so it's not you who's having to say, do you mind not putting your hand there, which can be pretty awkward. And I think it might have made a difference to me over the years. You know, it's interesting, you know, with hindsight. I look back on all these things. But I tell you one thing that I feel very protective of younger actors now. And on Mayor of Eastown, we had a situation where the young actress who plays my daughter, her name is Anne Gary Rice. She's an Australian actress. And she's now 20. She was 19 at the time. She plays an LGBTQ character. And she had an intimate scene in a car. And because there are no clothes that come off in this scene, no one had thought to bring in an intimacy coordinator. But it was an LGBTQ...”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Actually, ammonite was truly a very low budget film, so there simply wasn't the money. We didn't have stunt doubles, we didn't have hand doubles, we barely had a packed lunch, you know, so it wasn't something that was ever offered to us. But I think Sercia and I felt, we felt quite confident in what we wanted to do with the characters in terms of their emotional journey within those intimate scenes. And I think the two of us together sort of looking after one another made us feel a bit better. But I absolutely, I mean, made us feel better, but made us feel, you know, made us feel bold and brave. And actually, we felt good about what we'd planned. And as you say, it felt like it came from an honest place. But yes, for sure, I think in the past, I think I could have absolutely done with that.”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I definitely wish I'd had them in the past. Yeah, I absolutely do. It's interesting. We didn't have an intimacy coordinator on ammonite and I think it's partly because at the time that we made the film, that was the beginning of 2019, intimacy coordinators were only sort of slightly just becoming a thing. They aren't a legal requirement yet, I don't believe on film sets.”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“down physically she moved very differently to me as well and finding that different sort of rhythm internally for her was something that was very important to me. I had to just remove all of my cateness, you know, and really sort of anchor her in something that was quite uncomfortable and still I'm not used to that at all. But I loved her. I loved, loved playing her.”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Six other children to smallpox and housefires and floods and awful poverty illnesses. And so Mary, I think she had to learn how to survive really on her own emotionally from a very, very young age and subsequently I felt had a lot of kind of emotional chips missing little bits of her missing. With the love story element of our film, you know, I had to find a place for Mary where she was deeply insecure, didn't know how to be loved really, and also didn't know how to express just sort of fleeting jealousy to her it was a real affront, you know, a real rejection. And that had to come from quite a deep rooted place. So yeah, I did really quite a lot of prep for that film just to build those emotional layers and really bolt her.”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was wonderful playing Mary, very, very complicated playing her because there actually isn't that much written about her from a personal point of view. You're right about that line. She did keep not diaries, but she would call them her workbooks, where she wrote a lot of prayer, a lot of poetry, lots of sketchbooks that she kept because obviously she had to document all of her finds and so she drew extremely well. But you know, she was, you know, the world had dealt her a very hard hand. She lost her father when she was young. She was very close to her father. And so for me in building our version of Mary, I actually found myself leaning quite a lot on her childhood. And I decided that she probably had a sort of little bit of abandonment issues in some way having lost her dad and being raised by a mother who was just so riddled with grief having lost”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, it was an enormous honour to play Mary. It really was and it really moved me to see how much it meant to people in Lime Regis where we filmed that we were bringing her to life. And actually they teach the story of Mary Anning in schools in Lime Regis. And there was a wonderful moment. We were standing on the quay in Lyme and a group of four-year-old schoolchildren were just having a little outing with their teachers. There must have been about 15 of them. And there was me in my period costume with my cape and my bonnet like Mary Anning. And they literally went... They absolutely, it was like Father Christmas had 100% shown up in April. They were like flat against the harbour wall like this looking at their teacher. Is it okay if they know it's okay if they speak to me? Are you Mary Nannin? Oh my god, it was just amazing.”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Absolutely, people would stare at me like I was crazy and wiping down door handles and, you know, we lived in a building in Philadelphia where the staff were so, so lovely. They had these luggage carts, a little bit like a hotel. And so if ever we'd come home with just lots of shopping, they'd insist on putting it on the luggage cart. And I would have learned it's fine, honestly. We can carry everything up. No problem because I just didn't want to have to touch this luggage cart that I knew they'd been was a huge thing that would have been a little bit embarrassing to like wipe down the entire luggage cart. But that was from February. I just knew. I don't touch my shopping. I've got my shopping. Thank you. But yeah, definitely had an impact on me.”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, it's interesting because I'm not a sort of a Germaphobe. You know, I don't obsessively in life pre-COVID. I don't obsessively wash hands or not touch door handles or not shake hands with people. And when I was preparing for contagion, I worked with epidemiologists and experts who were already knocking elbows, you know. I'd go to shake their hand and they'd go, they would not touch your hand. Why would I shake your hand? I don't know where your hand's been. Anyway, come with me. Let me show you my sciencey thing in this lab down here. I mean, I have to be honest, it did prepare me really well, you know. I knew what a KN95 mask was long before, you know, the next person. And I was one of the first people wearing straight away. I was wearing masks from February and walking down the street in Philadelphia where I was working, you know, crowded areas I would be wearing a mask.”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, yeah, they really do. That one in particular because this backstory that's quite sad. And so I had to create so much trauma for myself to be able to play that stuff. And I just haven't figured out how to get rid of the trauma bit yet. And it's so silly because it's just acting. You know, it's just acting. It's all invented, you know? And there were times when my family, my husband and the kids would say to me, they'd see me distressed and, you know, thinking about a scene that I'd just done and they would say, mom, it's not real. And I don't know, no, don't say that, don't say that. It is real. It has to be real. It's got to be real. I get quite cross with them. They always tease me.”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Mark on me, the mare that I just played in Mayor of Eastown for HBO. She's definitely left us. I mean, I'm trying to sort of get rid of her because I've only just finished playing her and it's like, oh, God, go, go, go, go, go, leave. She's still hanging around.”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I think all of those things, you know, I think all of it paid off because suddenly I was sort of slightly carving out a place for myself that was, you know, someone who could play characters, you know, who didn't have to be, you know, the in-yourface leading lady looking immaculate all the time, you know. And that's not me, really. And I am more of, I think, hopefully, a character-y actor. I feel much more comfortable when I don't have to sort of look good on screen. I always find that a huge pressure. But I think Clementine is probably one of my favorites, yeah. And sometimes even the characters who are like, you know, not very pleasant to sort of play can also leave a bit of a, you know”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I have a few, but I think when I look back over the years, I think a favourite for me is probably Clementine in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. But you see, the period from Titanic till then, which is about six or seven years, I look back and it seems like it was longer, but it actually isn't. That period of time making those choices to do smaller films and take risks and be in things that sometimes barely even saw the light of day, I think all of that sort of instinctive behavior on my part as an actor in making those smaller choices.”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I knew with that huge success that whilst it was extraordinary and absolutely brought with it freedom of choice and suddenly I went from auditioning for parts to no longer having to audition ever again straight offers from the age of 21 which is kind of crazy and also slightly a shame because auditions are kind of where you learn a huge amount I always say to my daughter who's acting now get in the room just keep going auditions auditions no matter if you don't get the job just get used to that feeling of walking in the door get used to that feeling of being vulnerable and how to hold yourself and you know how to not be too nervous and you know how to connect and they're quite important moments for a young actor so that disappeared but i wasn't i wasn't ready to be famous i mean it just didn't fit”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The last thing you want to do is complain about any part of it. And it's very hard to explain to people why it's hard and why you're not liking that moment in time without sounding ungrateful. And I was raised to really express gratitude and kindness at all times. So I got quite stuck with that and really felt... But I eventually got through it and lived to tell the tale. But Titanic affected my choices in as much as this.”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Very aggressively commenting on what I wore, what I did, what I bought, go into the shop, ask the person, or do you know her? How much does she come into the shop? What did she spend? What did she? Just such an invasion of one's space in ways that do probably still happen, but I think it is a lot better. Since Princess Diana died, things have gotten better. But it did change. It changed the rhythm of my everyday existence dramatically. And in ways that were actually horrible, but only for a while. And the one thing that didn't change was me and who I am. I mean, that just didn't, it didn't change. I do remember feeling quite lonely. I know that sounds really sad, but emotionally I remember feeling quite lonely because, you know, when you come from a family of loving, struggling actors, and you're working,”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Such a good question that, and it's such a big question as well, because I remember feeling defiantly that Titanic was not going to change me. I would remember the makeup artist Tina Arnshaw, who worked on that film. And she would say to me, oh, Katie, what are you going to do? You know, you're going to change completely. It's going to completely change your life. And I would say, don't say that to me. Like, why? I'm not, come on, it's just me. I'm not going to change. It's not going to change my life. What are you talking about? But the reality is it did dramatically change my life almost overnight. You know, I had a little flat in Holloway, lovely, lovely flat. And from one day to the next, I could not go to the shop across the road anymore and buy a newspaper and a pint of milk. I just couldn't do it. It was more hassle than it was paparazzi everywhere, literally in my face. Flash, flash, flash, flash. As many flashes as possible so that I would trip.”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“100% room on that raft. I don't know what happened with that because they must have, I mean, the thing is they must have done. They did so many tests on, you know, on the dress that Rose wears when the ship is sinking because it's lots of thin layers of chiffon. And so when it's wet, when it's wet, it's kind of dangerous when wet outfit. So we did so many tests on it to make it not that. But I'm sure they must have done tests on that door, that bit of wood. It just looked too big, didn't it? 100%. But you know what? Jim Cameron, like I did avatar with Jim Cameron. And he was like, you know, who knew we were going to spend the rest of our lives answering questions about that door, Kate, you know? It's quite funny.”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Very tough shoot. Conditions were difficult. The hours were long, six day weeks for seven months, four and a half months of which were shot by night. And so I'm deeply grateful for that camaraderie that we had, which you don't always find. It is quite unique. So lucky me. And I got Leonardo DiCaprio all to myself for seven and a half months. It was fantastic.”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There'll be a biography one day. The stories I've got, honestly, absolutely hilarious, conversations we would have. And, you know, sometimes, you know, when Jack and Rose are right up on the ship there before it goes down, okay, that was a separate part of the set that worked on a hydraulic arm. So we were harnessed onto this thing. And it was like a fair grammar. Up it would go like this. And it would regularly break. So we would be stuck up there. Just me and Leo. No one could get to us for hours. We would make up songs, we would chat, we would unplug our radio mics that were hidden in our costumes and we would just have such a great time. We'd be like party for one and it was at night. So we're outside under the stars chatting away. And I think if we hadn't have had that, you know, we would have definitely found the whole experience a lot harder. It was very, very hard. It's no secret that Titanic was hard.”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm trying to think. I know Leo and I were so I know people love to hear stories about Leo and I and because in everyone's minds we must surely have had this great love affair. We didn't, I'm sorry. But we were so connected and so close and really tight. We were a little unit. And so I think that we That was quite that and that was quite unusual. That is quite unusual. I mean he would have done anything for me. I would have done anything for him. You know, we stood up for each other and quite literally held each other's hands, you know, when you're standing in freezing cold water for 10 hours straight and all you want to do is cry. You know, we'd be holding hands under the surface of the water and he'd be saying, come on, sweetie, one more, we can do it. Keep going, keep going. And I think if we hadn't have had that, yeah, we could have been outshone by the sinking.”
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“But that was the time when I started to realize that retouching was really a thing. It really happened. But I wasn't a model. So how dare they do that to me? I didn't ask for that. Models to a certain extent expected that to happen because it did happen as a matter of course. And I was like, don't you be doing that to me? I'm a realist and I don't agree in lying to the public or even manipulating fact I just, it really kind of makes my blood boil, to be honest.”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Googling BBC News and news feed things will pop up, and I think, God, what are they doing? And there'll be a picture of, I don't know, an older actress in a bikini on a beach and there'll be a whole entire commentary about how great she looks. Like they're trying to make a point about going in the opposite direction, but they don't say that about the men. They don't even comment on the men. There's a whole other vocabulary that is used to describe women in this industry than men. And I just have to keep”
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“and harmful and messed with my head, made me feel deeply insecure, paranoid. I mean, really just absolutely awful. And I will be grateful to Emma for the rest of my life because I... I really just remember her making me feel just embraced. But the point is, the point I'm really trying to make is I've always only ever been a normal shape. It's just that I wasn't skinny. You see? And those were the days of the skinny, skinny young wayfish thing, you know. And because I wasn't that I was labeled as curvy, busty, or as though I had some eating issue. I mean, it was just so terrible. And so I think, you know, I do think that whilst the media do still need to be held accountable for some of the things that they do, I don't think that we draw as much attention to leading actresses, body shapes now, these days as much as we did. I do think people do still comment much more on what women look like than men, much more. You know, you'll so often see, I mean, I see it sometimes if I'm good.”
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“Someone's to. And it's one of the things about this industry that I think is changing, actually. In fact, I think has changed dramatically since I was young. I mean, you know, when I think back to that time when I was 19, 20, 21, you know, your body changes so much at that age. You haven't really settled into your woman self, you know, who you're ultimately going to be for your life. And it's a very emotionally vulnerable time. And I remember absolutely feeling so bullied by the media, so horrendously bullied, weighty Katie, commenting on diets that I had been on, what I actually speculatively weighed. Can you imagine? And it's completely diabolical, disgraceful.”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Listening to somebody like that, because that's a person you might meet in street. Whereas if it's a person who's talking like this. So within playing real characters who had really existed, sometimes I have to take a tiny bit of artistic license because you want people to be interested in what you have to say. It can't be the Basel Faulty. It can't be the Basel faulty of voices. Like, I mean, John Clee is Basil faulty. One of the most extraordinary performances ever given, but exhaustive to watch because it's so on. And so with a dialect, you sometimes have to almost find. Like a back seat level to it, so that it just hangs out there and shapes the character but doesn't dominate it. So it is hard and sometimes can hurt your face. That's the other thing too.”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Her voice is very much deep within her. She's from Delaware County. It's a specific type of accent. And so it's much more from the core that that voice comes. And I just would work it and do it over and over again and spend more time with people who are actually from the area where the story is set and listen to them and hear their stories. And that all impacts on the placement of the voice within oneself. And just to bring it back to Joanna Hoffman, who I played in Steve Jobs. So Joanna actually talks a lot like that. So the voice comes right into her face and she's talking like this. And actually, if I had done the accent the way that she talks, for an hour and a half, you probably don't want to hear that kind of voice so high like this the whole time. So I had to find a different place for the voice and talk like that, be much more direct with Steve when I'm talking to him. And so it affects everything about the character. And then you feel more easy.”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Somehow you can hear them doing it. You're aware that they're doing a voice. And that's, to me, that's a whole area that I try and really just stay away from. So I just drill it and I work it and I find it and really embed it. And sometimes a voice can have a different resonance truly in your body. The character I just played in an HBO series, Mayor of Eastown, that's coming out in April. She's a woman whose world is in complete emotional crisis. She's dealing with some grief. Something happened two years before the story begins and it all unravels throughout each episode. But what that means is that she's very depressed. She's very lost and broken. And so the resonance, the register of her whole voice, my voice is quite jolly and happy and colourful. And, you know, there's lots of sort of noises to it. And I'm animated with my hands. Mayor is not like that at all.”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Audiences start to feel that they sort of know me better as time goes by. You know, social media for sure, I think adds to that, which is part of the reason why I don't have it, because it's nice to have some mystery. So for me, I feel it almost gets harder to completely separate from me and immerse myself in that character so that audiences can see a character. They see a character as part of a story. They don't see Kate. And so a voice for me, whenever I get to do an accent, I really appreciate it because I know that it adds to that exactly that thing of being able to disappear. But there is a trick. There's lots of tricks. But one of the tricks for me is doing an accent really, really well, but doing it so well that it disappears. And the audience don't hear you doing it. You know, often you'll watch someone do a very accomplished American accent or Scottish accent or Welsh accent.”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, it's really interesting when you say showy because it's one thing that I shared with my late mother. We both have this real loathing of show-offs. My mum would say, just promise me you don't get showy offie. She'd always say. And that has really stayed with me. And it definitely has an impact on my work, I think, and how I approach it. You know, I don't, funnily enough, I don't like being in the limelight. I'm not really such a driven career woman as, you know, one comes across a lot in this industry, but I just love acting.”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No I somehow know. I mean I just am and it's never turned my head. You know, I really never, I've just always been able to see that side of the business as just that's the wow factor you know there are these great moments that come and then they go and then you go back to your reality you know and I was able to assess that straight away. I was able to see that oh this is great fun but it's not real and so when that's gone okay and then you have to go back and do the work again and I just was always able to do that I don't really know how again I think it's just that I had such lovely parents quite honestly and great family”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Finished making it. I got such a shock because suddenly I was in a film. It wasn't just my lovely experience that I'd had working with Peter and Fran and Melanie Linsky who'd played Pauline the other girl in Heavenly Creatures. It wasn't just this wonderful personal experience that I'd had. It was there. We had to sort of share it and people were going to comment on it. And I was in a movie and it premiered at the Venice Film Festival and I was in Venice. I mean, you know, I just didn't go to places like that. That wasn't how I grew up at all. It didn't turn your head.”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It probably is quite unusual, I suppose, but I come from a family of pretty self-sufficient individuals, you know. I don't want to use the word fighters, but just surviving realists, I guess. And so I had most certainly had that instilled in me, this sense of like, come on, get on with it, you know, just knuckle under, do the work, focus, you know, I just, I just, that was part of my life. And I also grew up surrounded by people who didn't feel that the world owed them owed them anything in any way. There was no sense of entitlement, there was no sense of bitterness or, I don't know, just no sense that anything was going to come for free. And an absolute ability to be able to just really make the most of life. So I went to New Zealand just feeling elated. And what was so funny was that when I saw the film for the first time, probably about a year after...”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Look back over all these years. I think for me, that was when the sort of process of being quite private about the job I do, just within myself, it really began with heavenly creatures. You know, I don't talk about the job much. I didn't share it much with my family. I don't think I even let them read the script. But I was quite grown up for my age, even though I was only 17. I did have a mature head on my shoulders and was fairly independent. And yeah, off I went to New Zealand for three and a half months and learned so much. I mean, I have very much learnt on the job. And that was, you know, that was the greatest education I could ever have been given at that point.”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, I mean, I remember it like it was yesterday. I remember receiving the phone call to tell me I'd gotten the part. I remember every audition that I did with Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh in Soho at John and Ross Hubbards who are casting directors, much loved casting directors. And I remember a real I just had this sort of burning desire to do anything I could to prove to them that I could play that part but it was a very it wasn't like a oh please let it be me please let it be me it wasn't that sort of a feeling it was more I'm going to do this I'm gonna do this just gonna stay steady I'm just gonna concentrate and I'm just gonna give them no option but to be so good that they just have to give me this job and I and I remember being incredibly focused and quite private about it and that was really I suppose when I”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Look a bit late, so I was about 15 and I did an episode of Shrinks, you're absolutely right. God, I almost forgotten about that one. I was in a series written by Russell T. Davis, actually, called Dark Season when I was 15. And so I'm always really intrigued. I love seeing how well his career has gone and how it just, I mean, it's just everything he does is just brilliant. But then I did casualty, yes, when I had just left school, I had finished my GCSEs. I did a first series of a sitcom I was in called Get Back in which Ray Winston played my dad. And it was just before that, I think it was, was it before or after, I can't remember, but I did this episode of Casualty. And to me, that was a very big deal because I watched casualty. And so meeting all those actors, I got incredibly starstruck. And it was soon after that that I was asked to audition for a film for the first time ever. And that film was Heavenly Creatures.”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, we still put sugar puffs, and it was a little bit later. I was probably about 12. And I was one of many, many kids who were in this commercial. But yes, I do remember being paid £60, which was a huge, huge amount of money to me for being part in this commercial and getting fed all this free food. You know, I didn't know about onset caterers. I couldn't believe all this wonderful food.”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, growing up in my family, it was really lovely. It was filled with. fun and playing games and Role play and dress up and I remember dressing up my brother who was the only boy and Was always quite shy. We would dress him up as a, I don't know why, we used to read the Topsyan Tim books and there was one edition of Topsy and Tim where they dressed up as Gypsies and they put tight scarves on their heads and for some reason gold earrings and they painted Brown on their cheeks with cocoa powder mixed with water. And I remember doing that to my brother and him sitting there going, oh, this is. I do remember that. We've got lots and lots of photographs of all of us dressed up and my poor old brother dressed up as well. What good?”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A great fun, entertaining passion, but not a proper job. So I very much, it was never frowned upon, but it was considered not a proper job. So I always thought, well, if I wanted to do that and be on the stage, because I only ever imagined going on the stage, I didn't even imagine doing television. But I thought to myself, well, I'll have to figure out what that proper job is going to be. And I never did figure it out. And so thank God things worked out for me because there was never anything else that I wanted to do. I just wanted to do silly voices and dress up. And I did like being on a stage. I liked that feeling of audience interaction. It wasn't so much about applause. It was more about the gratifying impact that you get from, I don't know, being able to see responses on people's faces, entertaining, you know, being an entertainer.”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Loud and colourful and an enormous amount of fun. I mean, you know, I grew up in just a very regular... Family. My dad was an actor. My mum was not an actress and she was actually very shy and hated the idea of going on stage. But interestingly, both of her parents were actors and her mother was in the same class as Noel Coward at drama school when she was younger. And my grandfather was an actor, but he was also a dentist way to go for a combination. I mean, he had a family of six children. My mother is one of six, so he had to make a living, a proper living somewhere. But I grew up in a world where acting was considered...”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“badges and prizes and stickers It's amazing, really. Yeah, I didn't set out to do all of that, I suppose. It's a funny thing”
2021-02-28 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Kate Winslet on Titanic, Hollywood and Finding Her Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source