Kate Winslet talks AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER, TITANIC, & more!

hey guys uh welcome to my YouTube channel yet again where sometimes magically amazing people like Kate Winslet appear next to me it's a it's a miracle Kate we were both just saying our stomachs are going to Grumble and mine just did as you've been saying that like perfect they're much stomach Runway to come make sure to subscribe to the channel and enjoy my chat with the one and only Kate Winslet Kate uh whether you know it or not you've been on the bucket list for a while for this podcast we've been doing it for about eight years so thank you for the time today oh thank you that's really lovely I've been I've been having a bit of a um Caitlin's load-a-thon the last few days in the span of 72 hours I've seen Avatar the way of water I am Ruth and the holiday on the point over I have you contain multitudes a fairly good spread and balance I'd say yeah like if you could have like you know a an appetizer an entree and a dessert of my career which which is which I guess holidays the dessert yes yeah and maybe maybe the entree well the entree I am it's weird to say either of them is like in a moose Bush appetizer they're both feasts in their own way yes they are um how would you schedule the yeah the Kate Winslet movie athon the uh I guess it is I mean it it must strike you as you get to have these kind of conversations where you have an opportunity to look back to see the breadth of the work it must please you you've been doing this for 30 years on the big screen almost it's kind of crazy I I know it's a it is a 30-year career and actually I keep having moments where at the this time in my life where I I realized oh I'm I'm one of those older actors now who I used to listen to and hear their stories when I was younger and they would say oh do you remember back in you know 1970s now yeah and uh and we did that show with blah blah blah and and I I am now doing that and actually I work with Josh O'Connor recently who's gorgeous I absolutely adore him such a wonderful actor and he said to me he said so who are your contemporaries Kate when you were starting out and I thought god wow wow Josh O'Connor yeah is asking me something that really does feel like it before his time and it is before his time and yeah I suppose I just feel I just feel honestly filled with so much gratitude that not only do I get to do the thing that I love but I get to do so many different versions of it yes and I feel proudest of that you know often people say to me so what's your ultimate goal or what's a role you'd love to play or what's left you know you seem to have done it all and I feel like I'm you know I'm I'm right in the weeds of the best part now where I'm getting to experience playing all these different roles across kind of loads of different mediums and it's just amazing that to me is the ultimate goal is I can just float around it's amazing yeah I mean yeah just looking at recent work I mean from mayor of East Town to Performance capture and Avatar it's like couldn't be more different and stuff you've never done in your career before and that's that must keep it so exciting um well let's start okay we're going to dive into Avatar obviously which is why I'm in London visiting with you but I do want to mention I am Ruth which in the states sadly we don't have a release date yet but I'm sure it's coming sometime soon I hope so um it must be I mean talk about full circle moments you're working with your daughter here it's essentially like almost like a two-hander like you and your daughter she by my math was probably filmed this when around the time when you were filming uh at that age Titanic really crazy at the age that she was when we shot this it was only like nine months ago so she was 21 like 21 and a half and actually I was just done shooting Titanic and had been nominated for best supporting actress for Sense and Sensibility at that point which is crazy so I'm constantly saying to young actors that's like the ridiculous version like they don't aspire to that that's just like a freak random fortunate thing that happened to me a long long time ago um it's like every port of director I talked to that always Compares themselves to like Orson Welles who did citizen King when he was 25. it's like yeah freak of nature in the greatest possible way you would all due respect freak of nature in the best possible yeah I just but I have had some very fortunate moments you know and of course people say you know you make your own luck and and I've certainly worked incredibly hard and continue to just because I don't want to ever be if you take a foot off the gas then things start to go a little Wiggly and so I just I just refused to ever do that but now I look at my daughter and you know I do see well for a start she there are moments where you know she does things with her face and I'm like huh that's a that's a me thing and I I I see her in certain angles and I'm like wow you know you do see she looks very different to me she is her own person she's completely different she's much shorter than me physically we're constructed in totally different ways and emotionally obviously she's got her own full-on thing going on but sometimes I'm like oh God my face was like that in sense of sensibility or my face was like that in Titanic so it's really fun to kind of spot those things but she's she's a very very powerful young actor and I'm enormously proud of her and it was so impressive watching what she did every day and I am Ruth because not only are we improvising the entire thing it's no scripted dialogue we made it all up on the day as we were going along so that takes a huge amount of Courage um but she had to be very vulnerable and really just let go of any inhibition and and and put herself out there and it's it's really hard as a young actor to be laid so bare like that when you've only had three years worth of experience acting in front of a camera not to mention she knows she's going to be compared to you she's in the same frame as you like I mean that I guess I mean it's sort of inevitable I suppose that people will do that which is kind of a little niggly because she does have her yeah she truly has her own style I mean I have to say she is very different to me um as a young actor she she has a sort of um there's a naturalism to her work that I feel I honestly never had when I was younger it took me years to figure out how to just be very real on camera I feel like I'm still figuring that out but she sort of has that um quite instinctively and I think a lot of young actors of her generation are are served quite well with that style um in a way I think that Society uh has shifted and changed so much since I was younger that we want to hear what younger actors have to say yes authenticity is valued over anything else yeah yeah it really is let's talk about full circle moments let's so this this um press tour gives me the opportunity to talk about this 25 plus year collaboration with James Cameron on and off um and of course uh it's been some time since Titanic but Titanic I mean look you and I both lived through it in different respects but I remember as a teenager like it was as you well know a phenomenon Beyond phenomena it's like hard to contextualize for people today what it was yeah what's been your relationship in the subsequent years like have there been times where you've been like I don't want to talk about Titanic today like I don't need I I appreciate it I love it it did so much for me but like I need a year off I need a week off I need a day off from Titanic you know I have loads of moments off from Titanic um genuinely I do I think you know it isn't this sort of thumping great presence in my life on a daily basis yeah not at all um and actually if anything I think now that I have moved through that time and come out the other side and have been able to prove to people that there are lots of other things that I could do right um and also making choices that were you know quite deliberate for a few years in terms of going against what was expected of me I think you know I was there for a very good famous person I wasn't ready to be a famous person and somehow I was so fortunate because I I instinctively knew that at the time and resisted it it was really scary you know it was very scary to become that famous that quickly all of a sudden and truly my life went from being able to just roam around makeup free go and buy you know a pint of milk in the newspaper and a loaf of bread from across the road to suddenly that was an abnormal activity because I was literally surrounded by press just walking across the street and I was so young you know so experiencing life as an independent adult you know learning who I was as an actor I mean my God I still had so much to learn I was not trained it's a common misconception about people think that I had all this years of heavy you know I don't know important British training I left school at 16 and and and got lucky so I I have learned on the job and continue to learn on the job so actually when I I did Titanic I just walked out of that feeling kind of overwhelmed and and curious about you know what would come next and and actually what did come next was not what I expected at all it's quite overwhelming but now I think being a young famous person is almost impossible to navigate well just think about I mean you've been very Frank and it's kind of great to hear I think especially for young people to hear how you were treated in the wake of Titanic and the bullying and the way you were described in the Press but yes add in the way of social media could you imagine like how difficult it would have been for you to deal with all of that I I just I just absolutely couldn't imagine it I mean it's a whole other world and I'm so lucky I don't have social media I literally it's not a case of having to switch it off because I never even switched it on probably the smartest decision you've ever made yeah yeah so I just I just don't know about any of that I just don't have to hear any of it and I think as a young actor when you know every actor is insecure I don't know a single actor no matter how old they are how many years they've been doing it I don't know one single actor who says yes I like myself I'm impressed by the things I do and this is me every single actor is like oh God was I good enough today was I should have done that differently or maybe oh God I wish I could do it again it's just it's just how we are we're kind of just hotwired to think we're not very good half the time well when you're rejected it'd been auditions 90 of the time that doesn't help reinforce that's it it's so much of rejection that so much of acting is rejection especially when you're young and starting out and that's the hard part is having the resilience to push through and you know decide whether you love it enough to keep getting the knockbacks and just keep going forward it's it's really hard do you remember vividly still the audition process I know you've talked about before like you never ironically auditioned with Leo you did with McConaughey do you remember like because there's so many names that have been talked about like do you remember like was Christian Bale was Ethan Hawke do you remember other people that you Christian and Ethan know uh Matthew McConaughey yeah and there was a another actor who I have to say is not that well known now um that's okay that's okay isn't that terrible but yeah I and were you were were you aware of who you were up against because there was talk of Gwyneth and Claire Danes Etc um I wasn't really aware but this it was a little bit naughty actually I do remember this and it was such a lesson my God so this other actor that I did read with his name I'm afraid I really can't maybe um I'm gonna throw one out we can always cut it um Jeremy's sister was he also because I heard he was one of the ones that was it might have been him it might have been him okay but I can't recall to be honest so it's a really long time ago um but I remember him he whoever it was very much wanted to let me know that he had been there doing this auditioning thing the whole of the day before and absolutely threw out a couple of names of people who he had been auditioning with like a psychological things remember that he was completely trying to me up and I just spent I was like Yeah and I don't know I just I just took from that wow I'll never do that I will never ever do that to another actor what is the point but I also thought you're not going to get this part I could just tell he was just way too um he was just way too pleased with himself and Jim Cameron I I could sense was not a person who was going to be very tolerant of any young actor who had any degree of arrogance I could tell that about Jim he's a really sincere person and he was looking for actors who weren't vain weren't going to do mind games and who were going to be absolutely in it and immersed literally um and yeah I do remember the process and I had been flown to LA I had been flown to LA to do proper screen test stuff um with costumes and everything and I was filming Hamlet at the time with Kenneth Branagh and what was amazing about it was that the entire cast of Hamlet so I'm talking Julie Christie ridiculous like Jack Lemmon Charlton Heston I mean it was absurd not to mention can of course but they were all in on this thing like oh God Kate's up to this really big film and it's gonna be so exciting so I had all of them literally going bye darling good luck you've got this you can do it and honestly the day I got the phone call this is a crazy story I've hardly ever told this but this is honestly true we were filming at shepparton Studios which is a little ways out of Central London and I was living in a in a flat share in North London at the time so the journey is Hefty each way depending on traffic Julie Christie said to me listen I found a little bed and breakfast around the corner and um and I think they've got to spare room so if you wanted to kind of Buddy up with me or I can ask the people who own it if there's a space for you on the occasion that I received the phone call telling me I had got the part in Titanic I was in a bedroom in this bed and breakfast next door to Julie Christie I received the phone call in the morning at 5am or something and I banged on the door banged on through the wall Julie Julie wake up I got the part I got the part oh and then she threw open the door and there's the two of us standing in our pajamas me 19 years old with Julie Christie yeah she's the first person I told that I'd gotten the part I mean if I ever did do a memoir one day which I don't think I would actually but that's got to go in like that has to that's got to go in there somewhere a pinch me moment amazing oh my god when you think of I promise it's not going to be the entire Titanic talk but but you see how I'm like I'm so old now I'm able to tell the stories about this is the good stuff the days of my acting youth isn't it hilarious all right guys let's talk about security specifically vpns our sponsor this week is nordvpn by now I hope you guys know what a VPN is it's of course a virtual private Network it's a service that protects your internet connection and privacy online it creates an encrypted tunnel for your data protects your online identity by hiding your IP address and allows you to use public Wi-Fi hotspots safely so nordvpn is the one to use because it's so easy to use you connect with one click or even enable auto connect or zero click Protection Plus they've got over 5200 servers in 59 countries it's got amazing speeds it's actually been confirmed by speed tests nordvpn is the fastest VPN out there you can use six devices on it on every major platform I like it also because you can get movies streaming other content anywhere everywhere don't miss your favorite content from home when 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cried at Titanic every time I've seen it um I'm curious though from an acting perspective like on Titanic there's some dialogue in there that's tough that would be tough for an actor to sell like you know I can't even remember but like I mean well I mean I don't know just like I mean obviously for Leo it's like I'm king of the world but then for you it's like you know to say like I'm flying in a way that like feels like it's from your heart and it's not I don't know cheesy beyond belief listen dude my my motto has always been commit or it's right you know like truly I'm that's you know I should copyright that phrase you should um but so I it's really funny I mean honestly I was just so excited to to get the role yeah it was incredible and it wasn't just that I thought oh wow this is it and I didn't actually didn't think that at all I never thought oh this is it this is my big break a hundred percent I did not think that I thought God great opportunity first time playing an American yeah well this could mean that people might see that I can be a little bit versatile okay just can't you know I mustn't blow it I never even I never even thought about the dialogue you know as as actors it's your job to make it work it really is and and you are there to play a part you're there to really give your all and and that was that was the main thrust for me but one thing I will say that is absolutely true of Jim's writing he creates remarkable female roles oh you know not just remarkable female roles who are strong and Central to the plot but in the case of Avatar these women they are leaders yes they lead with their heart with Integrity they have the power to protect and create change you know they are physically not just robust but resilient and agile and capable and he is a man genuinely and I'm not saying this to kind of dispel any that's been said about myself and Jim in the past but this is really the truth he has enormous admiration for the ability that women have to plow on keep going and to achieve more than perhaps even we ourselves think that we're capable of and so it's good to be I think in a situation where you're working with a director who just ex not just expects that you'll give it a go but knows that you will be able to pull off that thing yeah it's kind of amazingly empowering yeah and the company the people he keeps coming back to is very telling and it's like once you're in you're in and I feel like there's a a mutual respect thing even with all the stuff that's been said about yes he's mellowed a bit over the years that he was who he was and he is who he is but yeah it comes from a good place it seems it does it comes to a place of wanting to do incredible work yeah and when I think about Titanic really my God I mean there was so much pressure on him and at some point I I you know you hear rumors of course there was no internet in those days and I think there was barely even email quite honestly but but I remember hearing that it was getting so expensive there was some merger with another Studio at some point and we all remember I remember we were all going oh God this is getting a bit like you know guys we're in this like full-on like problem film oh there was like Titanic watch I remember like Entertainment Weekly it was like every every month was like let's where is it now is it gonna how much is it gonna bomb see we would not have ever known any of that we were just in it and sure it was really tough you know it was so hard the water was really cold there was so much of it it would have cost you know a fortune to heat that amount of water plus there are things I will tell you about the way that water behaves in huge volumes that are unpredictable so we were all scared quite understandably there's only so much safety you can put in place before you dump however many tons of water into a flooding Corridor or a dining room you just don't have any way of knowing what it's really going to do so you know it's at the end of the day kind of isn't anyone's fault if you get slammed in the side by a floating table we didn't know the table was going to decide to do that right it's not controllable yeah and it's not just the actors you know it's the it's the crew it's the camera guys who are standing around wearing wetsuits dry suits you know lugging pieces of equipment trying not to get water on the lens I mean we were all in it together I mean that's the one thing I will say that I treasure from that experience and that it taught me a huge amount about what it is to be part of a company and that to me is something that I care about a lot I care about hierarchy in terms of not allowing that to to have any space or place um it's very very important for morale it's very important for younger actors to understand that it just doesn't get you anywhere when you behave like that I often hear stories of younger actors complaining about silly things like catering and wanting to have a separate Chef to other people and you think what for I take my own food to work now because I hate to have to ask people to get me things so I'm just like you know what I'll just take all my own stuff and I can just eat when I need to you know have a bathroom break when I need to and not be you know expecting people to do things and I can just concentrate on doing a good job or at least focusing on hopefully remembering lines and doing all the things I'm supposed to do you have to stay at it you know you can't just rest on your laurels and you know hope that people are going to go oh she's great you know one day she might not be yeah you know that's on me yeah um and I I care about that I really do care okay we're gonna we're gonna return to the water of Avatar the way of water but I have one video I want to show you because I've had this is quite cool I've had the privilege over the years of talking to your old buddy um just newsflash I actually have no idea what he's about to show me I have no idea she has no idea um Leo oh and um I asked him I asked him the question that you all hate getting asked if you've seen this video yeah controversy of all time could jack have fit on that door at the end oh my gosh I thought it I remember blowing my eyes out when I was I have no problem that's telling I think that is the biggest controversy no comment did you mention it at the time we like should we make the door smaller so like I said I have no cars it's funny magic so he I've never seen him stonewall me or anybody else more on a question he just shut down completely yeah what's your attitude about that silly question after all these years oh God it's just you just have to make a joke of it don't you I don't know that's the answer is that I don't know could you fit on the bloody all I can tell you is I I do have a decent understanding of water and how it behaves you're more than most yes I really do okay but not just that in my own life like we paddle board we surf we kite surf I don't actually like kiteboarding as much as my husband does and is extremely good at it I do win Surf and I really do enjoy that I scuba dive we swim we called water swim like we do a lot in the water one thing I can honestly tell you so a paddle board so when so a stand-up paddle board if you put two adults on a stand-up paddleboard it becomes immediately extremely unstable right um that is for sure if you put two adults and say a seven-year-old on a paddleboard you can't it's impo you can't do anything you'll be tipping you'll be falling in the water so the reality is it was a door that is it an intact door is it a bit broken it's a bit broken isn't it you were there anyway I think that's a piece broken up I have to be honest right I actually don't believe that we would have survived if we had both gotten on that door okay I think that he could have fit right but he was already pretty worse for the wearer he was oh I would have tipped and it would not have been it would not have been a sustainable idea so you heard it here for the first time yes once and for all he could have fit on that door but it would not have stayed afloat it wouldn't now leave Kate and Leo and Jim alone and also apparently I was too fat oh it's a little why were they so mean to me they were so mean they were saying I wasn't even fat it's insane it's insane we've sworn so many times in this interview I'm so sorry I love it uh no the way you and Leo were treated in different ways bizarre but you got your Oscar nomination he didn't get the nomination you at least got that out of it yeah lucky me I did I know it's so weird but it's funny isn't it if I could turn back the clock I would have used my voice in a completely different way I would have absolutely I would have said to journalists I would have responded I would have said don't you dare treat me like this I'm a young woman my body is changing I'm figuring it out I'm deeply insecure I'm terrified don't make this any harder than it already is that's bullying you know and actually borderline abusive I would say a thousand percent um and now that wouldn't happen and if it did happen a young actor would truly respond in exactly the way I just did right but also you know this this nonsense of like commenting on bodies and how women look it's getting better but we still it's not we've still got such a ways to go it's so ingrained in a disgusting way that it's hard to even if an actress looks even if an actress walks out on a red carpet and happens to look amazing in whatever she's wearing the fact that people will say looking you know cuts a fine figure looks honed and toned or that Dreadful word svelt right don't even say it we don't say that about the men it's such an irresponsible thing to do and it feeds directly into young women aspiring to ideas of perfection that don't exist aspiring to have bodies that you know the Press are saying that we have yeah it's for that it's for one night and one night only that we're in that damn dress and believe you me mine comes straight off the second I'm in the car on the way home and I'm in my pajamas that is how it is like I'm right there eating chips and farting that's what we do you know I mean one of the few things we can do you can do and you have been it's great that you're doing it is is just speaks of the hypocrisy over and over and over again in a public forum and because it doesn't happen overnight and you're right it's changing as many things are but it's yeah it's slow going it is slow going it is slow going and you know not to kind of do down the red carpet occasions because they're important they're fun and actually it's so tough in the world right now that I'm sure it's nice for people to see you know actors coming together looking all dressed up and what have you I completely understand that and it's very much a part of the job and I do respect it um but yeah I just wish there weren't quite so many comments on the physical form of actresses it's it's why why you know bodies are bodies everyone's beautiful however they are and whatever they came with you know um it still drives me kind of crazy I definitely think we can we can do better with that stuff we can um let's talk a little bit about this amazing new work I got a chance to see Avatar of the wave water yesterday um and it delivers never doubt James Cameron people I keep saying to people it's like he how many times does he have to prove that he does it better than anyone it takes his time oh my God he always gets there in the end he does um you've got a wonderful role in this talk to me a little bit about when he comes to you is there a script is he describing the character is he describing I've got these four potential more movies like what how does the the conversation happen on this one so the exact process on this was was was actually relatively straightforward I guess in the sense that I had seen Jim in uh 2014 I was given a star on the Walk of Fame if you say that quietly because I'm always a bit like oh that's a star thing um but Jim very kindly came to that event and spoke and we'd had a conversation the night before and he just had said to me things like what do you want me to say what do you want me not to say can I think it was so sweet and at the end of the conversation he said so at some point we need to get you big and blue and I said my God that would be amazing having loved obviously the first avatar so it was 2014 and then in 2017 he did call me and say look I actually really do want to talk to you about this character um it's a really significant uh role in terms of the story arc and what we're saying about mothers and protection of family um and he described Renault and he act his actual words he said she's the female goddess Warrior leader of the water tribe that's right and tick tick tick tick tick I'm in yeah um and I told my children and you know who at the time were I don't know I guess Mira and Joe would have been what 16 17 and you know like 17 and 13 and they were just like well you have to do it and I said well you know they're going to send the script we're going to read it they're like no you just have just do it you just have to so uh and then of course I read the script and actually the script was pretty much I'd say almost as it was when we then came to shoot um saying it's an interesting uh challenge I mean an exciting exciting prospect this is by the way it strikes me that like the two arguably most formative filmmakers you worked with early on are like the two biggest proponents of performance capture Peter Jackson of course and Jim it's just it's just an odd circumstance but yeah yeah um this character like not a ton of dialogue actually but like the physicality is important and I'm like you're doing like you know you get war cries and hissing and all these kind of like other ways of impacting and conveying emotion that totally works a thousand percent but I'm cursed from an acting perspective did it feel I don't know like a different sort of a challenge was it more freeing to to embrace physicality over dialogue or or what well Jim said to me look don't be freaked out by the motion capture thing he said because actually that's just that's just a technical setup really right so once you're in your motion capture suit and you have your doctor over your face and your helmet cam and your um your helmet and your helmet cam everything rigged and ready to go you you then you then go through uh you get rommed into the system so you stand it as you win yeah and and in front of a camera and you make a sequence of something like 2026 physical poses and you do the same for the face and then you are caught in the computer system for the day and then you're free to go so then as actors there's no hair and makeup there's no lighting there's no camera setups there's no marks to hit you are completely free and actually it's a very sort of pure form of acting partly because you can't hide at all I mean you've got cameras rigged everywhere in the roof of the Sound Stage plus the cameras that you can physically see um not to mention a little GoPro that sits right here in front of your face so every movement in you know the the gap between your teeth the way your eyeballs move you know when you close your eyes and you really squeeze and tense your whole face together everything is captured and it's a luxury because the subtlety that you can put into these performances is quite surprising you wouldn't imagine that would be the case but it it really is um yeah the close-ups in this film like it's like you're just yeah it's it's Flawless like you're you're seeing a performance like without a thousand percent it's just all there yeah yeah it was I honestly loved the experience and it's very collaborative um and Zoe in particular well Zoe and Sam because they created Created these characters and this world Zoe was very much a part of the um the invention of the voice and the and and the moves of the Nazi people and how they live and what they think and so creating a spirit for these characters was something that I was so grateful she had done that and was right there so I she could kind of show me some things and guide me sometimes and she was so generous and kind um and they're very um they're very instinctive as actors both of them but Zoe in particular she really acts with her whole heart and as natiri that is natiri right and so it was very special to be around around that because you get really sucked into it it's extremely inspiring looking ahead not to be greedy we know you're in the next one are you in the next like four he's saying now there's definitely hopefully it'll be four and five but now he's even saying there might be a six and seven like has he told you how far out has he told you the story there's only so much I know okay okay okay but you're ready to go back in the water with all already your Legend Jim knows that if you ask me to do anything I 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films you did back in the day they probably wouldn't be films now almost like little children the reader maybe those are Netflix Minister who knows who knows if someone funds those movies for a theatrical release is that part of why television has been increasingly important in your career it's just where the material is where the the good stories are or has it been a calculated kind of thing just give me a sense of how that's evolved nothing that I've ever done that has been calculated apart from the first thing I chose to do after Titanic that was an actual specific move on my part to take a step back right um but you're right I mean there aren't as many um Arty films being made in the way that you know yes little children Eternal Sunshine the reader um and that is that is a shame it's it's very very sad um however television is extraordinary yeah extraordinary and we get to play characters for longer periods of time um and in the case of maravistown we have opportunities presented to us that you know may not have existed before if there wasn't as much television content as there is now it's an amazing time to be a younger actor because there's a lot of work and there's less of the um establishness versus one medium versus the other you can go back and forth back in the day as you well know it was like you don't do TV your other TV actor or film actor funny because I just have never really cared about what people think so you're pretty I mean Pierce was pretty early enough it was 2010 so it was kind of early on in I suppose you know establishing that Trend right um which was cool you mentioned you you've referenced a couple times kind of in the wake of Titanic making that choice and knowing like you weren't in a place and still aren't like embracing celebrity that's not who you are that's not the life you want well in terms of material like did what kind of stuff were you getting like were you getting interesting material or was it no ones have really asked me that um I was getting the big stuff I was um definitely but I've I was raised by two people who taught us how to be happy with very very little right and so I was never driven by the financial dangled carrot um that was just not a motivator for me um are there any of those things that's a great luxury yeah yeah it can screw up the the algorithm totally for you if you're because yeah there were reports and you can say yes or no or just you know opt out but like Shakespeare in Love Moulin Rouge was talked about I found a random thing that a random article back in the day that said you were going to be in Phantom Menace the Star Wars movie do you remember anything about that I don't remember that actually okay but the others I remember a few things about the other things okay fair enough and and is there um just selfishly for mayor is there a talk of a second season where are you guys at in terms of discussing the future for mayor oh okay long silence I honestly if it's I I just don't know what we'll do okay I just you know all I can say is no decision has has been made honestly it really hasn't and it's a tricky one you know being completely honest about oh God here we go this is going to get quoted and recreated I've been completely honest about how that would evolve you know those are questions that none of us can answer quite you're like how would that evolve it was it was so good and it was way more successful um and prominent as a piece of Television that I think any of us could ever anticipated or hoped for right um and we all feel enormously proud of of what we were able to do and I'm so proud of all the actors my God it was really tough um so the question is do you know do you quit while you're ahead you know do you hold your head high and say look at what we did I'm so proud of that yeah and just walk away or do we go for it again you know it was a lot for me to play that character I'm not gonna lie and coming out the other side was frighteningly hard and you know it made me realize oh my God if I go to work now it really hurts and I have to look after myself right because I have a family and I can't just you know do that obviously we all go together it's not a case of being away for months and months and months on end or anything but you know a lot goes into it I can't just go oh yes let's just do it again it's not it's a it's a colossal colossal commitment and and and did really take a huge amount out of me and I know that it would do that again it would have to if I was going to give people what they want and ultimately deserve to see out of mashin um but you know you never know I was gonna say you got the accent still in there right unfortunately yes it's there forever and I only unfortunately because it was so ingrained in me that I had a moment recently on I was filming Lee the film I just wrapped about Lee Miller and I had a scene this was really freaky I had a scene where I had fallen and I had a i limped for like a couple of scenes after it like you know just kind of loosening up this pain and I had to limp and of course episode one and into a bit of episode two Mary's limping because she had fallen when chasing Freddie Hanlon okay so as I limp it's coming back it's just into the scene and my my accent on Lee was you know it was a simple straightforward much more generic American I swear to you I walk into a damp Cellar and I walk up to a soldier and I say with my limp hey what's going on what's going on I promise you and I was like stop okay please can we do that again again oh my God I was mad that was really bad that's never happened to me before I was like it's still in there and that's like you know over two years later from having started shooting really terrifying um this has been a real treat honestly thank you for the time I know these junkets they're they're running your ragged so I appreciate you making the time for something like this um the movie is extraordinary all the work is I can't wait for folks in the US also to see I am Ruth to see you and your daughter and your son um thanks again for the time today it's been awesome you're welcome thank you

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Length: 43min 19sec (2599 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 16 2022