“I want to be taken seriously as a force to be reckoned with. What I can offer creatively feels open-ended and limitless. I care about real people and telling stories that resonate in some way. Through the characters I play, I want people to feel seen, heard, respected, and acknowledged.”
-Kate Winslet, episode 439 of Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
For over thirty years, Kate Winslet has been one of the most beloved performers on screen.
We discuss her directorial debut in Goodbye June (5:00), the loss that inspired this personal screenplay (10:00), and how her experiences in Hollywood shaped her approach to directing (20:00). Then, Winslet reflects on her vivid upbringing in Reading, England (23:00), landing her breakout role in Peter Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures (30:00), and the encouragement of her artistic father (33:00).
On the back-half, we walk through how she crafted her performance in Sense and Sensibility (35:00), her Titanic audition (38:00), the scrutiny she endured in the film’s aftermath (40:00), and the body of work she ultimately made as a refutation of the industry that tried to define her: namely, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (48:00) and Mare of Easttown (52:00).
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Show-notes:
- See Goodbye June in theaters and on Netflix Christmas Eve.
- Watch Kate Winslet in Avatar: Fire and Ash, The Regime, Mare of Easttown, The Reader, The Holiday, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Titanic, and Sense and Sensibility.
- For more talks, hear Josh Brolin, Viola Davis, and Cate Blanchett.
- Order your Talk Easy mug in cream and navy or our vinyl record with Fran Lebowitz.
Illustrations by Krishna Shenoi. Reference photograph by Sarah Schneider.
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