eternal sunshine of the spotless mind kate winslet

#Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind kate winslet series#

You have to come, you have to come, it’s happening right now. Kate, it’s Michel! The circus is coming through the Brooklyn tunnel, they have some elephants. “I remember going to bed and being woken up by the phone at two in the morning. Winslet remembers the chaotic nature of the shoot: Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind in 2004 was a departure in process for now experienced actor. She then stood up and acted out the scene, including miming trying to feed Keitel a yoghurt, which left the Bafta audience in stiches. They had me do a thing in the audition which was Harvey pretending to be a baby refusing to eat.” Winslet then recalled the unusual audition she undertook on Jane Campion’s Holy Smoke: “Harvey Keitel is a particularly big fan of improvising. “I remember falling asleep one afternoon, it was half four or something, and I remember waking up the following morning at 11am, I really had slept for a just enormous number of hours, I was absolutely shattered.” I remember finishing filming and joining my family on holiday in Scotland. “It was this completely extraordinary experience, but very, very hard. The conversation then moved onto the gruelling experience of filming James Cameron’s Oscar-winning Titanic, which remains to this day the second highest-grossing film of all time and propelled the still young actor onto the A-list: The actress then spoke about how co-star Emma Thompson came to her defence: I remember saying to Emma Thompson, “Oh my God, can I tell you this thing that Ang said to me.” And she said, “Oh darling, oh my God, what did he say?” I said, and I told her the whole story and she went, “Oh for fuck’s sake, that is abuse.”.” “I’m sure they read the wrong name off the list and they’re just too embarrassed to say, ‘Look, we didn’t really want you for the part love, but you’re here anyway so get on with it’.” You are in a film, you’re not even worthy of this role. “And I went, “Okay.” And I remember going home, crying my eyes out and thinking, “No, Kate, this is it now, this is it. I remember going to him and saying, “So, you know, how was everything?” And he went, “You’ll get better.” The actress recalled the firm treatment she experienced at the hands of the renowned director: “This was truly one of the most awful moments of my whole life. Winslet’s next major film role was in Ang Lee’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic British novel Sense And Sensibility. However, Winslet now reflects on the film with some embarrassment: “Oh my God, it’s so over the top.” “And so I remember thinking, “God that’s it isn’t it, I’ve got to absolutely believe that I’m going to get this part,” because so much of it is believing that you will and willing things into existence.” Do you think like I might get it?” And he just looked at me and he said, “Yeah, you will.” “I remember that we had to drive to my agent’s office and I remember saying to dad “Oh my God dad, it’s an audition for a film. I was sent this script for a film audition.

#Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind kate winslet series#

“We’d done the first series of that and I’d just finished my GCSEs, and things moved really suddenly quite quickly.

Winslet was just 17 years old when she landed her first film role in Heavenly Creatures, Peter Jackson’s film about the Parker–Hulme murder case in New Zealand.

I’m not going to have that conversation with a friend or even a family member, let alone in public.”

“That question? That to me is not very nice. What I have a problem with journalists on the red carpet will now say, “So, how do you feel about the gender pay gap?”…”Do you know whether you got paid less or more than Michael Fassbender?” Winslet rounded off the evening by addressing the recent media coverage of comments she made about the gender pay gap: “Jennifer Lawrence is amazing for speaking up. She then recounted working alongside Harvey Keitel in Jane Campion’s Holy Smoke and Jim Carrey in Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, re-teaming with Leonardo DiCaprio in Revolutionary Road, and winning an Oscar for The Reader, before rounding off with her recent performances in The Dressmaker and Steve Jobs. The Oscar-winning actor talked through nine of her films, starting with her first role in Peter Jackson’s 1994 film Heavenly Creatures, her development as an actor in Ang Lee’s Sense And Sensibility, and her rapid ascent to global stardom in James Cameron’s Titanic. Kate Winslet discussed her career to date at a Bafta Life In Pictures event, which took place at Bafta’s HQ in London.