Actors on Actors: Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan – Full Video

just a maybe everything can be toasted and so mine with Joanna was, you know, because it can be quite choppy, you know, when you do an accent like that, it can be really choppy, but Joanna, you know, she's been an America yeah, he was a girl and he learned what rhythm is like and those were the things that I actually think I really loved how to hold on to rhythm almost more than Sam, so that was something really new for me, yeah, almost. Now you realize that you know the ripe old age of 40 and suddenly you say: Oh my God!

I've been ignoring that part of doing accents all these years, but actually rhythm is something that's almost more important than specificity yet, so I was extremely young when I realized I wanted to be an actress, but I have no idea how old you were and if you had that moment of saying yes, I'll do it when I realized it or when I really started. both because I know they're probably two different things and I saw my father as an actor, just like yours, and he and we had moved back to Ireland, I was making this short film and they needed a child, it was like a weird, weird movie arrêtez. and they needed a kid to dress up as a clown, of course, so he came to me and asked me to do it and it wasn't something I really wanted to do right away, you know, I wasn't, um, I was.

I'm not really one of those kids that necessarily likes to get a lot of attention, but in the same way my way of surviving and being an only child was to talk to myself a lot and I couldn't entertain myself by disappearing into a different world, so it was something that It was always there, but I didn't know what it was, I didn't realize that could translate into something like acting, so I did it and I remember I was on set and there was this guy and him. I kept talking and talking and talking and it was just before I took I must have only been about six or seven there, maybe it was around seven and I just turned to him, he must have thought it was such a small bra.

I turned around. Like Shh silence on set, I was like Jesus okay and I felt like I adjusted to being on a movie set right away. You didn't know that he did deeds of skill and things like that, but it wasn't really necessarily a path. I wanted to go down. I didn't think about him being a girl. You know, I wanted to be a waitress when I was a little girl because I used to go into the room and take my dad's order and then they would feed me and I liked them. plastic hamburger or you know something like that and I think it was probably I started working then and I went with a son and I loved it, but it was when I got to the atonement, which was the third offender that they had committed and again, so you were saying I think that, especially when you're a kid, playing someone who's completely different from you and you have that escapism that's almost M, it's similar to pretending that you're a wizard or that you know a tree or a princess or whatever. escaping into this person, Briony, who was in every way the polar opposite of me, was wonderful, yes, and I suddenly realized that I don't think I could ever give up this feeling, you know, basically magic, oh God, I can't go back, yeah, that's extraordinary I'm you Joe, I don't even know if you necessarily realize it when you're a kid because you have that uninhibited sense of the M expression and there's no guilt attached to anything, there's no doubt about you. yourself, just do it and you just believe in the fantasy and there's something so wonderful about that and you think that's when Donna said and it was actually cut from the movie, but it was with Cara and Brian that it gets quite emotional and you know that she has prepared this play and suddenly everything falls apart and then she breaks the poster in the hallway of the kind of gallery of the house and the caretaker is there and she doesn't know what's happening to the child.

I know this because they didn't really, I mean that kind of society, they also didn't express anything at all or share anything, so this girl was alone, you know, completely alone and she only had her imagination to back away from. and she just gives up and tears up the sign and looks at her and blames her for all of this because she feels like it's her fault and she storms off and it was the first time I had to keep crying. screen correctly and the release that I got was just incredible, you know, it was really incredible and it was at that moment that I knew I couldn't give it up.

Yeah, what about you? It's such, it's just the best feeling in the world. I've had a moment similar to the one you had when you silently said SH on set with my own daughter, who actually had a small role in a movie I made years ago, but that a little bit for anything, but it was enough to make her have that feeling like I think I need more of this, yeah, but yeah, I was on set with her, she came to visit something I had done when she was 8 or 9 and I. she was having a snack, you know, between takes and she left.

I mean, I really don't think you should eat on set. I was like, oh my God, okay, you're right, so she's fine now, okay. It's hard to feel terrible guilt, um, but not for me. You know, I remember. I remember she really wanted to be cast as Mary in my school's Nativity when she was five. Yes. I remember Dreamer actively thinking she was Mary or the angel Gabriel if they made it. give me the angel Gabriel part, I'll still be fine with that, but an Erik for Mary, but you know, Mary, you know, the angel Gabriel just does a thing like Mary, she goes on an air trip, I mean, like that. and clearly no one else can play the role with me, so I remember having that feeling of not determination but wanting something to happen, yeah, inside, I remember feeling it very strongly and then I had another moment, probably when I was maybe 7, 6 or 7 years. and this is really the truth.

I was in the bathroom and I could hear my mom in the kitchen and again I grew up in a small house in a small town so, you know, paper thin walls, etc., they could hear what the neighbors were doing right and I could hear my mom rattling around the kitchen, actually making dinner and my sister came home from school and my brother was upstairs doing something and just kind of the general hustle and bustle of life and I actively remember thinking if someone put up a camera . in the kitchen and I was filming my mom doing all these things that would be exactly the same as if she were doing it in a movie, but she's not acting, she's just being and that was a moment where I was like, "ah, okay." , then there really is no such thing." Something like acting and being mm-hmm is about being, yeah, and that's really stuck with me, yeah, and when younger

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who are auditioning and excited about a possible future career say to me, Do you have any advice?

It's always difficult. because I don't really have any great advice at all, but the one thing that's always is not acting, yeah, because that, give yourself to us exactly right, has a lot to do with not acting, is being and playing like Well, yeah, what I said before it's really about playing and playing with the other

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and that level of collaboration and that belief that you need to have, you have to have a total and absolute belief and that was something that I realized, I think from time to time. Again, when you know when you're working with press for movies, you can do it because you have to overanalyze everything and you're overexplaining, you know why we act and why we love acting and all that kind of stuff and sometimes you end up actually, I learned something about you and I remember years ago and when I was still a kid and I was doing press and people were like, you know why you love acting so much and it's such a big question that we thought well, why do we love me? mom and dad I just do it, it's unconditional and it's just a feeling, but I realized that the reason why something like acting and filmmaking in general, but especially acting so wonder

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y, is because you know if you really like it.

You cling to our essence. You're putting yourself back in that place that you were in as a child, yes, when you completely surrendered to that feeling of being someone else and being somewhere else and there's such a freedom that comes with that that you don't. I don't want to give that up, yeah, it's true, it's true and you know it's very important to remember that feeling of freedom, yeah, and remember to forget that the cameras are there. I mean, I constantly remind myself, remind myself to forget that the cameras are there, and Actually, it's just now that I think I'm getting better at it, right, Jen, it's hard, it's very hard to do that, but you have to forget it's there because then you're aware of it, then you become self-aware and then you think about how the camera is seeing you as a person actually being in that moment thanks for watching actors on actors click left to see our conversation with paul dino and joseph gordon-levitt click right to watch our

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