Kate Winslet

techniques and little tips from them the people you'd work with across the years I mean wake everyone up at midnight yeah I definitely didn't wake anyone definitely didn't wake there's an elephant at the hospital yeah okay I'm not falling for this again um I loved I honestly I loved every single second of it I loved being with the actors I loved all the prep I loved every day of the shoot I never wanted it to finish I loved sort of pulling people together and

um and creating a story that you know felt resonant and humorous and warm and and even the edit and the sound mix and the music and the great all of it i just i loved every second of it and i think i have been lucky i have worked with some incredible people and

some directors are really all about the actors and others are more about the visual side of things and perhaps don't necessarily have the language available to them to be able to communicate something with an actor.

And I think having learned a lot over this 33 years of this career that I've been so lucky to have, I've certainly observed and felt myself what is helpful to an actor and what

simply isn't and could actually kind of fuck people up.

And so staying away from the things that I know don't work was something that I kept at the forefront of my mind.

Yeah.

I know, it's funny, we sort of didn't, we just thought only of, when I say we, I mean myself and Joe Anders, the writer who happens to be my son, but he so didn't really believe that I was serious, that we could turn this into a film, this script that he had written having never written a screenplay before.

I kept saying to him, right, okay, let's sit down.

We're going to put together our just dream list of people who would play these parts, which crew we would go to and everything.

And we came up with this list of extraordinary actors.

And we never thought that really any of them were going to say yes.

And they all did.

So the trick then was casting people of that caliber in these amazing roles and making them disappear and making it feel like a family.

And I think a lot of that is...

helped by the brilliant children that we had.

Seven kids, which I was never... Actually, it was eight because the six-month-old baby was identical twin girls.

But I've never been afraid of working with children.

And actually, as an actress, I've always really loved it.

And