“We all have to question ourselves so much more now,” the Oscar-winning actress tells EW.
The idea of awards season givesKate Winslethives.
Same with the mere word campaign.
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It’s like “an allergic reaction,” the Oscar winner says.
I just roll with it, with as much good humor as I can."
And this season, perhaps the strangest amid an ongoing global pandemic, has already offered plenty of comedy.
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“I was like, ‘Oh, f— it.’
" Then the internet crashed and she had to triage with her husband, businessman Edward Abel Smith.
More technological shenanigans ensued.
We were a disaster team and it just took forever,” she admits.
“I’m the worst person to be figuring out all this virtual stuff….
I’m not the techie person.
I can cook and I can act.
And that is it.”
Certainly with thatDanny Boyle-directed film, there was a “snappiness” as a result ofAaron Sorkin’s writing.
“Everything comes from an extremely steady, still place,” she says.
“I had to focus a lot on that because movement and expression for Mary is used as communication.
I had to be very careful about when those moments would be.
We have to really choose when she would smile.
She doesn’t smile that often.
When she does, it’s an important vocal moment that comes from that expression of joy.”
“I was like, ‘Well, don’t f—ing watch it!
It will scare you,'” Winslet says.
“The story is alarmingly accurate.
I’d be like, ‘Francis!
You don’t need to say this to me like this is new.
I’ve been doing this.’
I’m taking no offense, just finding him actively endearing.
The shorthand that comes with experience became a “blessing,” Winslet says.
Watching the film, especially the much-talked-about main love scene, stirred more memories.
Winslet rescheduled shooting that particular scene to coincidence with Ronan’s birthday.
I knew that it would be very equal.”
Winslet and Ronan choreographed the scene themselves with no rehearsals or anything blocked beforehand.
Only female crew members were allowed in the room for filming.
“We had a female boom operator who was actually six months pregnant,” she notes.
There was dim lighting and handheld cameras.
We were on the same page in terms of that."
Watching it play out during her first viewing of the finished film offered a different experience.
“And so you automatically, as actors, are respectful.
You don’t question it.”
But, she adds, “this is why I feel a responsibility checking myself.
“It was a dialogue between two people.
That was it.”
Who knew that could contain so much?
