Kate Winslet Held Her Emotions in ‘Ammonite,’ Letting Them Show When It Counted
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2024
- Kate Winslet takes chances every time she shows up for a role, and here she talks her latest in Francis Lee's period romance.
Kate Winslet takes chances every time she shows up for a role. She wasn’t chasing likability when she earned the Best Actress Oscar for playing Nazi Hannah Schmidt in “The Reader.”
“I think I’m attracted to things that are going to be a challenge and scare me and pull on something of myself that’s different from the last time,” said Winslet in our Zoom interview (above). “You’re only as good as your last gig. If I don’t keep reinventing the wheel, how can I expect people to hope for different things from me? I step out of my comfort zone.”
Back in her 20s, Winslet realized that she was “trying to get audiences to like me and the characters I was playing,” she said. “That’s fucking bullshit. You can’t do that as an actor. I want to be prepared to get offered interesting parts that run the gamut of range, that require different emotional rhythms and stages to a character. Empathy is okay to ask for, but not sympathy. Why would you sympathize with Hannah Schmidt? It’s all right to empathize and understand the things she did, but you can’t trick or manipulate your audience. All you can do is be truthful and grounded in the part.”
This time, she connected with Yorkshire filmmaker Francis Lee, who had broken out with gay love story “God’s Own Country.” His second film, “Ammonite” (Neon), is a true 1840s story a story about the working-class, self-taught paleontologist Mary Anning, who trawled Lyme Regis, the rocky Jurassic Dorset coast in West England that served as the dramatic setting for “The French Lieutenant’s Woman.”
Winslet agreed to take on this quiet, restrained, painfully lonely collector of extinct mollusks, a poor woman with scant education who “through ingenuity and skill and determination and will to survive, became one of the best paleontologists of her generation,” said Lee. His script attracted three other top actresses: “God’s Own Country” star Gemma Jones as Anning’s sour, widowed mother; and as her love interests, Fiona Shaw (“The Lady Eve”) and Saoirse Ronan (“Lady Bird”), respectively.
Winslet felt that she and her director were “cut from the same cloth,” she said. “He’s very working class, but so am I.” The reason people think she’s not is because she’s a classically trained, successful actress who speaks well, which she inherited from her mother and actress grandmother. “I’m proper working class with real socialist parents.”
Lee also trained as an actor. “So he has a tremendous understanding of actors,” said Winslet. “I felt supported right away. I knew playing Mary was going to be frightening for me; I knew it wasn’t going to come naturally. I was nervous about playing her even though I knew I wanted to be part of the challenge.”
Lee wanted Winslet to earn the movie’s few scenes with emotion. “Playing Mary, there were two emotions I wasn’t allowed to show very often,” she said. “Almost no happiness: no smiling, no sadness, no tears. Those are two emotional actors lean on a lot, emotions I’m no stranger to in my life. Learning to use anything between those two powerful emotions was very odd.”
When she did get to show what was going on inside her, “I had to earn it,” she said. “Learning how to internalize pride, happiness, sadness, joy, longing, and find ways to express those things without words and using my face was terrifying, and very unnatural.”
To repress so much inside this “unknowable figure,” Winslet relied on building Anning’s backstory. “That helped me to understand not just who she was but why she did things the way she did,” she said, from losing her father to her tricky relationship with her mother. “When she formed a closeness with someone, it would get to the point where all she would know how to do was to keep that person in a private, isolated world to herself. For me, it’s a film about how we choose to love and how that ends up defining who we are.”
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It's a shame that she didn't get the nomination for Ammonite. She was brill in it
Yes I agree she got snubbed for the awards. She’s is a best actress of her time. Always engages her audiences in any movie and moves them. ❤️
Absolutely...... Such a huge disappointment
I agree both of them are so amazing and deserving
She is good
Dude she's got 94 wins PLUS an Oscar..she'll be right mate 🤣
Kate Winslet and Cate Blanchett... those two together, imagine the looks, the eyes, the longing and the dialog. Just heavenly
Get a grip and watch soft core porn instead!
I can say that what Kate did in Ammonite was totally brilliant. Mary Anning's personality type is 100% related to me. Her decisions, her thoughts, her expressions... it's me. I know I'm kind of super strange person, and I never thought there would be any movie that the protagonist wouldn't show any feelings, but here it is. Kate did the great job. I'm so grateful that she tried to understand who Mary was and what she felt inside. Thank you Francis Lee and the crew for making this.
Love how Kate is eloquent and understands her character so deeply, and explain it to us so beautifully. She deserved Oscar for Ammonite, without doubt.
Kate Winslet is one of my favorite actors. She has the ability to express a lot of things only with her eyes. The character Mary in Ammonite was made for her. She played her so well! Fascinating. :)
Who for even a moment would think how hard it was for Kate to actually suppress all actions of joy, happiness, etc. She was astounding, staid to jealousy to finally that smile, then that love. Great director! Mary felt REAL, because of Kate's astounding effort to hone her craft. I love the 'quiet' and story of Mary & Charotte. This was acting!
I love my rose mor and more forever couse shes,in my heart ,lots of love from india🙏🌷❤️🇮🇳
Another great interview with Kate Winset! Open, interesting and intelligent conversation. She is relentlessly promoting Ammonite...one can feel she is really close to this project. She is such a brilliant actress with great depth. Yes, try and play Hanna Schmitz (The Reader)...that was just quite, quite incredible. Earned her a well deserved Oscar! Any this year????🌷🌷
Ammonite is an absolutely wonderful movie, a masterpiece
I've realised this one thing about kate that, she's so full of subtle emotions, that she falls short of words to express them at times...if you notice her replies to some questions like.." did you feel like oh i can do this" to which she replied " not only I can do this but humans can do this"
Such emotional traits in her makes can evergreen beauty inside out
❤❤
Just watched Ammonite last week & really loved it
I watched this lovely movie twice already. it was almost like watching a silent movie in a way and interesting to watch them emote without words by looks and touch.
I love you Kate Winslet💕
She swears just in conversations, I love her even more!
Oh wow she can swear what an amazing talent As if no one else can 😂
Excelente entrevista. Maravillosa Kate. Muchas gracias !
Wow, Kate is so intriguing. Such a great actress
Great interview! Kate, genuinely insightful…
Is she in her dressing gown? And swearing like a fish wife. 😂 Got to love her!
Kate forever!!!
Kate is fabulous all the time!!!
Love U Kate ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Amonnite es una película que debieran ver todas aquellas personas q creen que el amor entre dos persona del mismo sexo es antinatural y desviado creo q la película muestra que sentir amor por otro se humano es lo nas maravilloso que un ser demuestra y da a otro ser y no importa sus geniales ni su exterior ni color de piel .
I love you katee
Love her❣️ --- She would be amazing as Frida Kahlo. She really looks like her 🌺🌼🌸
Kateee
a honest speaking beautiful woman,,yep i like her,,;)
DEVERIA TER AMONITE 2 UMA CONTINUAÇÃO ATÉ A MORTE DA MARY...
Kate
Kate Winsle hand Tattoo🖒
oh so sad she didnt get nom for ammonite.....
Agree!
nom nom nom
;-)
Kate talks about Ammonite so loudly and proud while Saoirse is always MIA. You can tell how big this is for Kate while this is just another project for Saoirse. Maturity tells all.
Kate come home. I want to talk. Laine.
Kate Winslet ??
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Kate Winslow seems like a very hard working down to earth and true to herself person. However I have not heard one interview longer than 2 minutes that she hasn't said the F-word and is very foul mouthed. It just doesn't seem to match what she portrays as an intelligent well-rounded woman. And after listening in one interview her third f-bomb, as well as other vulgarity I lost a bit of respect for her as a person. It seems to just flow out of her so easily. ( Sorry for her kids to think that it is a proper way of speaking)
She always says she is a strong woman and she plays parts of strong women yet She seems to think she needs to use vulgarity to fit in that category. For such a strong woman she still hasn't figured out life for herself yet, 3 marriages 3 kids with different daddies. For years I looked up to her untill recently I've seen these interview videos and how many times they mentioned every movie had such amount of strong nudity.
I realized now she's just another actress.