Kate Winslet - Actors Studio

nominations still in her 20s she has created a variety of characters in a wide array of films from heavenly creatures for which he won the london film critics and empire awards to sense and sensibility for which she received golden globe and academy award nominations and won the evening standard screen actors guild and british academy awards to jude which earned her an evening standard award hamlet for which she received the empire best actress award titanic for which he received golden globe london film critics screen actors guild and academy award nominations and won the empire blockbuster entertainment mtv european film and germany's golden camera best actress awards hideous kinky holy smoke quills for which she received empire london film critic screen actors guild and blockbuster nominations and won the evening standard award enigma for which she won evening standard and empire awards iris for which she received her second british academy award nomination her third golden globe nomination and her third oscar nomination and won the evening standard best actress award j.m berry's neverland and eternal sunshine of the spotless mind people magazine has declared her one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world the actors studio is proud to welcome kate winslet what a welcome i can't believe it i would just like to say that we are especially honored tonight kate since december the 22nd how many times have you been outside your home this is a thing about the second time kate had a beautiful baby yes thank you she has very kindly come out into the world again after having a baby well i was not going to miss this so thank you very much for having me i'm glad you're here as we proceed through our 10th year celebration the english australian south african parade continues where were you born i was born in a town called reading which is uh about an hour and a half outside of london in england and what is your father's name kate my father's name is roger winslet and your mother sally winslet sally bridges sally bridges sally bridges yes what was your father's profession my dad is an actor and he's still and it's still although he's now he's um he has an incredible voice my father and he's always been very very musical and i think it's really extraordinary what he's doing he's uh he's god he's going to hate me for saying this but dad i believe is 66 years old and uh he's in a band now and every other band member is under 35. he's just having a great time being this kind of aging rocker as he calls himself you have siblings i do i have uh an older sister anna who is 31 and i have a younger sister beth who is 25 and uh and my brother joss who has just turned 23. i know that reading takes great pride in you they do did any other actors come out of bread english kenneth branagh wasn't little chef born in reading little chef is in the roadside cafe yeah i think it probably was it did begin there basing stoke road is where it started basistake road i used to go to a drama club on the basing stoke road did you i did star maker star maker theater company and my sister anna who was always the one that was going to be the actress when we were younger and i was kind of the sort of fat one with big feet who never who never particularly expressed any enormous desire to be an actress although kind of quietly i knew that it was what i wanted to do and a couple of years later i decided that i wanted to join this company too and how old were you when you were doing this um i was 10. what is the red roof school it's a theater school um and it's very singy dancy and i went there now mrs clark has said that you were always very good in dance yes she was the principal she was yeah i wasn't bad um i was always a good tap dancer i would say that for myself you what i was a good tap dancer oh no no no no i'm not getting i'm tapping i'm definitely not going no no no no i'm definitely not believe me i'm lactating here i can't i can't no look the 36 e's will be all over the place [Applause] we we have had no just a moment charlie's there charlize theron and i did we did a perfect arabesque we i partnered her in ballet we've had modern dance we've had tap dance we have never had a lactating tap dancing you don't have to you don't i would break but i swear to god i break my ankles and not fall out no no no god forbid i can't do it i can't i know i i know it i i know you wouldn't and i but let it if i hadn't just had a baby i would completely i'm very game for things like that but i just missed what happened after you graduated from red roofs i went and did a sitcom uh called get back with ray winston playing my father which ran for two years and in the middle of the two seasons um i got a part in a film called heavenly creatures that was shot in new zealand how did heavenly creatures come to you well i was still with the agency from the theater school and um i remember the principal calling and saying uh you know i think you should go up for this dear you've got blonde hair and you're you know five foot six and you know they're looking for someone like you english and it's based on a true story about two girls who um who who murdered murder this woman in new zealand and this was literally all she said and there was something i remember that really my heart stopped i remember and i remember thinking i'm gonna get this and after about four or five call backs it was really grueling peter jackson offered me the part did you hear that name i know who directed heavenly creatures i have just i mean i have everything to thank him for peter jackson that was really incredible i mean that is where the luck really began i know this is peter jackson of lord of the rings uh an astounding start for how old were you i was 17. okay 17 and working in a delicatessen part time and i remember receiving the phone call from my agent whilst i was literally making like a turkey sandwich for a customer and um and as i'm putting you know mayonnaise on and pickles and whatever the phone rang and i jumped and i said can you just wait a minute and i'm making this turkey sandwich for this guy ranked ran to the phone and i remember the my the principal of the school saying to me who's a clever girl then and uh and i just collapsed collapsed into tears and uh and had to go home immediately got the bus home here's the part she's not telling you that guy is still waiting for his turkey sandwich poor guy poor guy poor guy at the age of 19 this delicatessen waitress was nominated for a golden globe and academy award and won the british screen actors guild and london evening standard supporting actress awards for her portrayal of marianne dashwood in sense and [Music] sensibility what is the angeli experience like oh my god it was terrifying he'd ang would always tell me that he was he would say to me don't do this and he'd go like this with his mouth and his hands would come up like this to his face and he'd go and i would say what do you what do you mean he would say it's too big and i'd think well do i act like that and uh basically what he was saying was that i was just too over the top but it was all to do with this thing of just trying to ground me and trying to calm me down and i can honestly say that he did achieve that to a certain extent it's quite difficult to calm me down once i really get going i think but um yes i think so um but i couldn't get you to tap dance it's amazing working with ang but i went to him at the end of the day and i said you know so you know was everything okay and stuff you know was i alright am i good and i remember him saying you'll get better i wanted to die and i remember thinking okay i'm not gonna cry i'm not gonna cry i just thought i'm gonna be really strong and i'm just okay i'm gonna get better okay that said that's the direction i'm going to get better i think i did get better eventually you got wonderful oh marianne dearest it is best to know what his intentions are at once think of what you would have felt if your engagement had carried on for months and months before he chose to put an end to it we're not engaged but you wrote to him i thought then he must have left you with some kind of understanding no he's not so unworthy as you think him not so unworthy did he tell you that he loved you yes no never absolutely it was every day implied but never declared sometimes i thought it had been but it never was he's broken no vow broken faith with all of us he made us all believe he loved you he did he did he loved me as i loved him when the picture was released and you received all these nominations and awards i understand that emma thompson gave you some advice about what to do if you were ever to win do you remember just don't cry he said to me i do remember her saying to me whatever you do don't cry what was the movie jude based on it's based on a woman yearning to break free and a man yearning to break free sue brideshead was a tough woman with an incredible mind and yet very very stubborn and um you know somehow that felt like me at the time as well and i've always said that i think just personally that was one of the most wonderful filming experiences i've ever had because i was just i was 20 i had left home by that point and it was just a really liberating experience for me actually that film was your sue is not exactly the one of hardy she's a much more complex person i remember doing an interesting thing actually when i was preparing for that film because i got to a certain point i just thought oh god i can't i can't read anymore i can't read any more hardy i can't i can't theorize about this anymore and i just threw all the research material away and stopped writing things down which i you know furiously do and still do to this day you know writing things in notebooks and so on and i just remember thinking god i just i just have to leave a lot of this person to chance actually because i can't i can't do it the way that it is in this book because i it was just so black what do you write in your notebook oh crap absolute crap [Laughter] um i don't know i just write you know how would this person walk and what would they eat and i always try and build um a history for each character very much so yeah absolutely so i you know what were they like as a child and how did they have siblings what was their relationship like with their mother with their father did they go to school what was it you know all of those things and really try and create a full person so that hopefully when an audience meets the character and sees them on screen they really feel the presence of a a well-rounded individual and they can feel a sense of history and and depth and you just hope to god that somehow all that research is going to pay off in 1998 kate won the empire magazine best actress award for her portrayal of ophelia in hamlet [Applause] most english actors aspire to shakespeare did you no absolutely was terrified of it terrified foreign language i was like oh my god it's like speaking a foreign language i can't do this and derek jacoby was in it for god's sake and kenneth branagh and julie christie and all these amazing people and ken asked me to be his a failure and i thought i can't do that and that's exactly the reason i should be doing this and it does take time it does take time to read shakespeare and truly understand it and truly feel the richness of every single line and um you know it took me a little while but but but but very quickly i loved it and and got it and uh and ken's an incredible god he's such an incredible director and he's a wonderful team leader brannan does not play a classically traditional hamlet he's a more forthright man what did he want from your ophelia what did you want from europhia i wanted her to be different from all the other ophelias and i wanted her to be my interpretation of ophelia i wanted her to have her heart truly broken and i wanted her to be strong i wanted her to stand up to her father stand up to her brother and i wanted her to be slightly kind of sexy as well i think i wanted there to be something bright about her to begin with because i wanted an audience to understand why hamlet was in love with her and what it was about her that that was you know that was making him so happy for that time bruno saw it the same way you did there are nude love scenes between hamlet and ophea that are flashed back to what's it like when your acting and sexual partner is your director terrible because what he does is you know you know you're in the middle of a taking you're sort of rolling over or whatever you might be doing running you know fingers through three foot long hair and uh suddenly he'll go he'll be you know he would be kissing me and saying okay cut okay hold on a second babe can i just have the uh portable monitor in and so this little camera would come in you go i'm just to watch this but i'm just going to watch this back okay do you want to say oh look look good bit of ask a bit of ass and i'd be thinking good bit of arse just who are you you know we come now to a phenomenon called titanic [Applause] it was a small film i did about a boat this was a period piece yep and an actual event yeah how much research did you do oh god i did so much research i remember um i just read up read up read up on everything to do with that boat did you fill your notebook with notes i did yeah yes i did i did yes yes and i actually kept a diary on that film too have you it's locked in a safe it's locked in a safe now it had some stuff in it she thinks is it oh no it is oh no okay i did fill it with notes yes um on september the 14th 1996. oh no no no kate wrote in her diary oh no i do not believe this i'm very tired i need to get some sleep oh dad you're gonna make me cry what else did i say i feel ugly talentless and uncommitted frightened lonely nervous mad and we haven't started shooting yet if it's not rehearsals it's weight training if it's not etiquette it's voice coaching by the end of this film if it's not suicide it'll be an asylum did i really write that yes you did on september the 14th 1996. my god on february the 16th you wrote oh my god these women oh i forget that person i'm the person no i know but someone must have got them out of the slave i'm exhausted and ache like hell i'm bruised and battered from head to foot what you do on the screen looks physically impossible was it as difficult as it looks it really really really was i had makeup i had makeup girls taking photos of my arms for bruises reference because i had deep like serious blood bruises i mean like i've been beaten up a lot of the time october 15th 10 days after my birthday kate's diary oh god my dress is driving me bloody bonkers story-wise the point the ship hits the iceberg i'm in the same dress till the end of the film yeah it must have been sheer murder it was actually and i remember the scene when when she's shimmying down the pipe to get to him with the axe in one hand my my legs kept getting tangled in the dress and we'd have to stop so many times and i couldn't touch the floor so i'm i was really pulling myself along on this pipe and just working my legs and we'd have to stop because of you know my leg i go i'm sorry i'm someone i'm tangled in the dress again so a diver would then swim in and i'd be i'm holding onto this pipe with someone untangling my dress from my legs and then jim cameron would use all kinds of f words and swear words and everything get me some scissors with lots of you know bleep bleep bleeps in between and uh because he was so tired of this dress getting uh caught in my legs and he came in and he then created the bo peep dress he just cut the dress off he just we had like 20 of these dresses he cut the dress off and so it was up to here and the rest of it was just you know i think i didn't even have i don't have anything on my leg so i'm in this kind of funny little bow peep dress which i was which i was given at the end of the film the dresser came to me and she said don't tell anyone and i still have it i still have it and it's a small ball of kind of gray rags now it's just james cameron was second guessed throughout the shoot famously the press was on it as the budget climbed to a record 200 million dollars but one might say that his vision was vindicated when it became the most successful motion picture in history grossing over 600 million dollars in the united states and over one billion dollars worldwide and it earned 11 oscars what was it like as an actor to work with him how does he work with you when he's not directing waves and crashes well the first thing i would say about jim cameron is that he's really a very very decent man and uh and he is an absolute genius an absolute genius um and he's also a perfectionist you know and that would occasionally involve you know outbursts if he was angry that something wasn't working or things were taking too long and you know rightly so i mean he was the one under the most pressure he was always great with us it was always great great great with the actors finally the question i would be remiss not to ask tell our students about working with leonardo dicaprio oh he's just brilliant the cameras would roll and he would occasionally forgive me for this leo be just kind of flicking out a cigarette and they're literally saying action and the cigarette has just gone out of shot and he would be there bang i mean it is like some actors truly have a gift from god which by the way i really do not consider myself to have leo daniel day lewis they have this thing they just can do it and it hits them like a thunderbolt and he's one of those people and the uh scene in which you posed for him once again the new word huh you were the kid again and who was doing the drawing there was somebody else jim cameron jim cameron did that sketch what jim cameron did that sketch that was jim's not only was it jim's hand but jim did that drawing himself and when we see the hand that's the that's jim's hand and was leo present when you were they shoot it separately very present he was very present but in the end you know i'd get him to i'd get him to tell me you know which was the best position you know i just say oh look just will you just tell me if i lie like this what happens to my breasts if i go like that does that look better and eventually it just became like you know i mean honestly it was it was just another day's shooting it was quite quite weird and we were so completely just friends that it was never you know it was never like there was never any kind of tension in that way at all for the record kate made her own history when titanic came out at 22 she was the youngest actor in the history of the oscars to have received two nominations was the reaction to titanic expected by you or was it a total shock shock total i mean total and utter shock you turned down several big parts i think after uh titanic did you not i want to ask you what they were yeah because other people played them but you did turn down some very big parts yeah i did and instead you chose what it is kinky hideous what made you choose hideous king i just loved the book and i just wanted to run away actually i really did want to just run away and do something small i wanted to know the name of every single crew member on the film that i was doing and it just it just felt like the thing that i should be doing with my soul actually at the time and it really did kind of heal me because the whole experience of titanic was was amazing a bit exhausting you know this is what you have said about holy smoke it was the film that was the most important to me out of all the films that i've done because i just loved this character what did you love about that woman oh she was just i mean that was just that was just full-on rebellion and i just i just loved that i loved who she was i loved the fact that she'd left her life and wanted new things i loved the fact that she was experimenting in new things spiritually because that was something that i have never really done myself and it was just fascinating to me and and uh the way she kind of stood by what she believed in i just really really loved her she went to india the film is um it's about this young woman who leaves her australian life and goes to india and falls in love with baba her guru and her australian family who are very kind of kooky and sort of priscilla queen of the deserty um are just convinced that she's been brainwashed and that she's gone completely mad and she hasn't at all she's just you know taking her spiritual experiments to the extreme eventually they get her home and they shove her in a hut with this d programmer played by harvey keitel pj waters who is supposed to spend three days deprogramming her i mean and then the movie becomes about the power that she gains over him and how she completely ruins his life basically harvey keitel was one of the first guests in that chair barbie cocktail of course is a famous member of the actor's studio and he is today a co-president of the actor's studio with ellen burstin and al pacino that is one hell of an actor that is he really is he he really is it like working with them oh incred i mean absolutely incredible um and i just didn't i didn't know what to expect i was 22 at the time and i couldn't believe i had been given this part i mean i really couldn't believe it and i was working with jane campion and she'd done the piano an angel at my table and this was so amazing for me um and i flew out to australia and we had two weeks of extraordinarily intense rehearsal and i mean i really remember thinking at the end of that second week my god the filming has got to be easier than this it was just so tough because jane as a director challenges you on absolutely everything and just doesn't let you hold anything back so in a way i was kind of revealing myself to myself as well as to her and to harvey and kind of being deprogrammed almost by jane in order to become this young woman 2000 was an important year for kate for one thing she received her fifth screen actors guild nomination and won the evening standard british film best actress award for not one but three performances in enigma iris and quills what did you play in quills i played a laundry mate i played madeleine who was the marquis laundry mistress which marquee the market is sad and who played the marquis de sade jeffrey rush uh tell me how does your character madeleine feel about the notorious marquee she's completely in love with him in in a kind of an intellectual way you know he he taught her things and told her words she didn't know and um made her realize that she could be a sexual being in a way but she's vital to him what does she do she was vital in the sense that she smuggled the novels that he was continuing to write whilst being in this asylum which she was not allowed to do she smuggled them to his publisher for him and read a few of them to her fellow laundry mates oh yeah on the way in this film as in others you've shown us a wide and deep emotional range are your emotions readily accessible when you're acting the big emotional moments grief rage where do you find the feelings how do you muster them do they just come to you like that well i think it's different now that i have children 28 i have two children not one but two it's amazing i think it is different when you become a parent somehow because um there's a whole world of emotions that are given to you when your children are born that you just didn't know existed before but if you're talking about you know having to do a crying scene do i think about my mother dying or do i think about my father dying no i've never thought about someone dying um i just i just put myself in in the character's place and into their predicament or into their into their moment of grief or whatever it may be and just try as hard as i can to find what they're feeling in myself and then it happens and then it happens in 2001 kate received her third academy award nomination as well as a golden globe and british academy award nomination for her portrayal of half the title rule in iris first for anyone who may not know who is iris of the title iris murdoch day myris murdock great wonderful philosopher writer and novelist what kind of research did you do oh god i did a lot i watched as much video footage of her as i possibly could because i just wanted to i just wanted to be i just wanted to be her i wanted to be everything that that she was and had meant to so many people that was the other thing because she had died so tragically of alzheimer's um it was really important to me to kind of cherish her memory in the film you don't sound the way you sound in any other film that you made or in any other part that you played yes that's right i really tried to pay attention to the way that she spoke um because it was sort of it was a kind of a deeper voice that she had and she sort of leant on one side like this and would think a lot and do things with her hands and and and so it i tried to do that because i you know i talk like this and i got this in my hands and i'm all you know english and and and she and she was so grounded and so profoundly in her body and standing on two feet and believed in what she was talking about with such incredible passion did you feel a an obligation to iris murdoch was that inhibiting or freeing it was kind of um it was really it was really freeing actually really freeing because you know she was a woman who just did everything she had you know had had sex with women had sex with men you know did i mean really experimented with life in every possible way that she could and that was her intention that was absolutely her intention so the student friend i had resisted going to bed with joined the army during the war and promptly asked me to marry him for he was certain he was going to be killed wanted me to have the widow's pension yes i know they all said that anyway i didn't want to marry him but i did go to bed with him i i thought that best before he went off to fight because you never know anyway he was killed my student friend and we weren't married so no pension what happened last december 22nd um i had a baby what is that baby's name please his name is joe joe and here's the full name joe alfie winslet mendes and his father is sam mendes we feel a certain proprietary interest in sam mendes because when steven spielberg was here in that chair he suddenly turned to the students and he said there's a young fellow i've just seen his work in the theater we're signing him to do a movie the rest is history yeah what a glorious director he is yeah he's really wonderful he's i'll start crying a bit because i'm so emotional about just have the baby and um why would he make you cry he's really wonderful because it's just you know it's an amazingly emotional time you know i sort of i'm seeing him being this wonderful father sorry and uh excuse me yeah i'm very very happy sorry i'm very happy right now oh god have you got any gin awfully nice yeah he's a wonderful wonderful man i've never worked with him you've got a nice life right i am pretty lucky yes i am pretty pretty lucky very very very happy right now we're lucky man because you're good oh my god um i'd like to ask you about jm berries neverland it's the story of how j.m barry conceived of the idea of peter pan and that happened through this wonderful relationship that he had with the four sons of sylvia lewellen davis whom i play in the film and johnny depp plays jm barry and he is absolutely wonderful in this film he's sort of wonderful in everything he does he's just he's just he really is fantastic and he's uh he's one of the nicest men i have ever met and he's incredibly professional and very uncomplaining and humble who directs it directed by mark foster of monster's ball success yes he was he was really really great he was really great i think he got the most subtle performance out of me that um that perhaps i've ever given i would like to ask you about a remarkable movie called eternal sunshine of the spotless mind it's the next marvel from the fertile mind of charlie kaufman who has tantalized us with dazzling riddles in such films as being john malkovich confessions of a dangerous mind and of course adaptation this film is no exception when you first read the script did you follow it easily and clearly was it absolutely apparent in the script what he was saying no i remember reading it and thinking okay this character is incredible the story is clearly amazing but i don't understand it and so i i just went back to the beginning and i kept on reading through it and and eventually my script which i still have um because i keep all my scripts is covered covered in notes and scene descriptions of what has just happened and okay i need to explain what this story is about this is a story about two people clementine kracinski my character and joel barrish jim carrey's character who are complete opposites he for the first time ever is playing a very very shy introverted man who just wants the ground to swallow him up when he is in a public place when he's forced to enter into social situations so this is a real change for jim and he is wonderful absolutely wonderful yes he is and clementine is loud and outrageous and all the rest of it so these two people are in a relationship and they love each other but it's a love-hate relationship clementine gets to the point where she just hates him they have an enormous argument one day and she receives a leaflet telling her about how she can have parts of her memory erased so clementine chooses to have this done she has all memory of him erased from her mind and when he realizes this some two or three days later to spite her he goes and does the same thing and then the movie plays out in a series of extraordinary memories some of them as they are being erased literally before your eyes or as they're happening and sometimes it runs in sequence and sometimes it doesn't and sometimes the two of you are playing in more than one time period in one scene back and forth in the present in the past in the present in the past yeah i mean so i would have things written at the top of my page like scene 15 um past as it is erasing then when joel says whatever line it is present i mean it was these i mean no it's gobbledygook to anyone else but only i sort of understood how i could piece these things together however when you see the film it isn't really that confusing at all but making it was a bit of a challenge it's not confusing that's the point that's the genius of charlie kaufman that's the beauty of this film we begin our classroom with the questionnaire of the great bernard pivo my hero kate what is your favorite word laugh what is your least favorite word hell what turned you on my husband that's been evident all evening what turned you off arrogance arrogance definitely what sound or noise do you love my daughter laughing i had a feeling what sound or noise do you hate i think a lot of people have said this before but the sound of the child in distress what is your favorite curse word bollocks bollocks that's a very british yeah it is bollocks yeah right what profession other than yours would you like to undertake when i was younger i always said if it didn't work out for me um i would have been very interested in in in being a makeup artist i think i just always loved painting faces what profession would you not like to attempt i would not like to attempt being one of those poor people who are forced to work in factories filiting chickens and things like that that would just be horrendous if heaven exists what would you like to hear god say when you arrive at the pearly gates careful glass of champagne got an elegant heaven yeah here are you students hi kate hi my name is chad winters i'm a second year director and my question is towards your work with harvey keitel and i was just wondering if you ever did any improvisations or any type of uh acting work besides that there's a story that i can tell now and i tell it with the most incredible amount of admiration and uh and and and love for harvey because he is completely brilliant and and i was just so honoured to work with him harvey likes to improvise a lot um which was new for me and when we were rehearsing he he wanted to improvise a lot in order to you know just discover different possible sides to his character and my character and their relationship and the level of intimacy that they have so one day he came into work and he said let's just try something he turns to me and he goes okay um just bear with me i am a dog and you are my owner and i have been hit by a car and i'm dying and you are helping me to die and jane campion by the way who's the only other person in the room is going oh my god that is fantastic okay so okay let's get a bit of music she runs over enya guys and then can i get on this stage and and do this impersonation okay i'm gonna go back one i'll show you what he did i kid you not i can't believe i'm telling this story harvey then goes enya's going in the background and i'm standing there like this and harvey goes [Applause] i'm so sorry harvey okay at this point i'm standing there i'm literally peeing my pants i get down on my knees and i'm coming around laughing going it's going to be okay jay and then jane suddenly goes use your dialect so i'm going oh it's going to be okay harvey shh not harvey a dog dog this i kid you not goes on for about five tracks venue i'm just thinking look just die will you just die but still kind of battling with these kind of inner feelings of self-doubt and like kate don't listen you're so cynical you know don't laugh at this is hardly kind of a godsend you know stop laughing take this seriously and i just couldn't i'm going oh shh harvey's still going uh dying and then eventually he just died he went like this and then i sort of went okay so um i think he's dead jane got up and harvey stands up and dusts himself off and goes that was interesting that was interesting and i went yeah it was can i just go to the bathroom i went i left the room and i just i fell about laughing i'm sorry i had to tell that story [Applause] hi i'm amy i'm a first year actor um you had mentioned that you have your children as kind of a well of emotion and something you can tap into and how you kind of like taking your time to get into the moment and i'm wondering if it ever just doesn't happen for you and if you have a really hard time getting there and if it does happen what do you do is there a technique or a method that you use to kind of yeah because there are times when you can't get there and it just the worst thing in the world is to start thinking to yourself i can't do that i can't do it i can't get there i'm just this isn't happening you know and everyone's watching me and they're all waiting and you know you can see the first assistant director come and going you just think you know you don't understand what i'm trying to do don't you know who i am um um but in those moments of complete panic frankly what i do is i go okay right i'm not getting this i'm just not getting this i've always tried to be brave enough to kind of just say look i'm really sorry i'm just being useless you know and there are times when you have to kind of do that in order to sort of purge yourself of that feeling of self-doubt um so all i would say is when you feel that moment just go just do it just tell everyone look i'm crap i can't cope um and then you know you have to take yourself back to that quiet place so what i do is i i tend to go off into a little corner and i just listen to bits of music that are particularly inspiring to me since having my daughter and now my son god i've got two children um well i have to confess you know occasionally taking a photograph of them uh of my of my daughter i have done that with me to work and just sometimes um you know just looking at her beautiful little face and just letting that you know take me wherever it does which is usually to a place of you know enormous emotion if you're in a movie one day which i'm sure you will be if you are lucky enough to be in a movie one day and you ever find yourself in a position where you think i just can't do this i just can't do this and yet you do that take and someone says to you okay we got it we're moving on never be afraid to say please give me one more just please and even if they say we're really up against it just say i promise you i can just i can do something different and often just shaking it up and just letting yourself move away for a minute and thinking oh that is done and then coming back somehow the emotion is fresh and you can just try it again and just see if something new comes up and if it doesn't it doesn't but at least you know that you pushed it right to the edge and you gave it as much as you possibly can and squeezed every last drop of water out of yourself

Channel: Katharine Clifton

Views: 104,011

Rating: 4.8961506 out of 5

Keywords: kate winslet, titanic, leonardo dicaprio, kate winslet and leonardo dicaprio, kate winslet oscar

Id: B7-ENVVYnTg

Length: 44min 57sec (2697 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 24 2020