Kate Winslet

I remember there was one night when I was at home asleep.

And it was two o'clock in the morning and the phone rang and it was Michel Gondry and he was like, you have to come, you have to come.

now right now you have to get into cab and you have to i was like oh my god and of course you get in a cab and of course you turn up and then improvise an entire scene with a load of elephants coming down fifth avenue and it was it was really amazing and that's one of the lovely things about making films is that sometimes you do get to work with people who are brave enough to do these kind of crazy things i thank god it was a great film right because imagine if it's just a crazy guy and the film was awful

I mean, you say that and the thing is, it is also, though, it is very warm and there's a lot of humour and I think it's just such a real and relatable story about family, really.

It's less about a woman who's...

sort of slipping away and much more about a family coming together because of that event.

And I think it doesn't matter what family looks like to you.

We all have to deal with loss at some point in our lives.

And actually, I think in this country, we're not very good at dealing with it and talking about that stuff.

And I remember when my own mum passed away

sitting with my dad and thinking, what do we do now?

And actually Googling coffins, like how do you, I mean, and there's no manual for any of it.

And so, I don't know, there's something about the kind of messy navigation that this family of disparate people has to process in order to kind of come to terms with A, what's happening, but B,

how they're all going to stick together and put aside past grievances and make it okay.

And there's something to me that's just very, very real and human about that.

I don't know if it's a British thing or just is it a culture, is it a Western thing?

I mean, I think when you look at other cultures, there are so many ways in which they process loss and even letting that person go and what they then do afterwards.

And I just think in this country, there's a very standard way of dealing with loss.

when you lose a parent or a loved one in particular.

And I just, I don't know, I think making something that perhaps ignites a bit of conversation around that stuff, I think it's helpful.