Kate Winslet discusses new film Lee with Melissa Nathoo, and reveals how nervous Andy Samberg was about taking on his first serious role. Report by Nathoom. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00It's always a joy to see you, and you're bringing us yet another incredible story.
00:05I think it started when your friend called you and said about this table of Lee Miller's.
00:10Do you still own, or did you even ever own the table?
00:12Yes.
00:13You do still own it?
00:14I got the table, I own the table.
00:15It's very much in our life.
00:16Yeah, a friend of mine who lives in Cornwall works for an auction house, and she's often
00:20asked to research particularly interesting or important pieces that come in, and she
00:25knows how much I love food, and family, and feasting, and cooking, and all of it.
00:29And she called me, she said, oh my God, Kate, there's this table that's come in.
00:32She said, I just have to tell you the story.
00:33So I bought the table.
00:34Where do you keep it?
00:35Where is it?
00:36In your...
00:37It's in the house.
00:38It's in the house.
00:39I couldn't believe it, and I sat down at the table for the first time, put my hands on
00:42it, and it is beautiful.
00:43It's a big, heavy, single slab of tree, and the knots, and the welds, and the patterns,
00:49and you can honestly really feel the history in it.
00:52And I thought, my God, Lee Miller sat at this table, Lee Miller, Lee Miller, why hasn't
00:56anyone made a film about her?
00:58Cut to nine years later, and I now know why no one had made a film about her, because
01:03she lived so many lives, and what I wanted to do with this film was to almost redefine
01:09how people see her, and perhaps meet her for the first time.
01:13Was it a challenging shoot for you, because I think you were injured as well, weren't
01:17you, when it began?
01:18Yes, I was injured, but it was so spectacularly challenging, that also me being injured just
01:23became like, oh God, that just irritating thing that I'm injured.
01:27And there were so many other kind of mountains we had to climb, quite honestly.
01:30We only had nine weeks to make this whole film, after seven years of development, and
01:35working on the script, and putting the financing together, and so not dropping a day, hoping
01:40to goodness that nobody would get COVID, because that would have shut us down, which amazingly
01:44nobody did, absolutely amazing.
01:47But we had the most phenomenal cast, I mean, Andy Samberg, Josh O'Connor, Andrea Risborough,
01:53Marion Cotillard, I mean they were just so wonderful, they all said yes, they all stood
01:58by us, and came to the party, and it was just amazing.
02:02I think Andy, by the way, in this role, it's the first time I've seen him do anything like
02:06this, it's spectacular.
02:07It's the first time he's played a serious part, and he was very nervous, and I think
02:13he kind of couldn't believe that he was even being asked to consider it, because he's
02:17so known for comedy, but he looks, he looks almost exactly like the real Davy Sherman.
02:22And one of our co-writers, Marion Hume, phoned me one day, and she was like, can I ask, have
02:26you actually ever thought about Andy Samberg, because he looks exactly like Davy.
02:31And I had a look, and was like, my God, he really does, I said, I don't think he'd ever
02:35do it, it's probably not his thing, you know, he's known for comedy, she said, just ask,
02:39go on.
02:41Lee would have just asked, just ask, and so we did.
02:44And to my amazement and delight, he really wanted to do it, he really wanted to prepare,
02:51he wanted to audition, he went through this whole process, and we were just so fortunate
02:56that he said yes, and he's just, he's absolutely wonderful, and I think kind of unrecognisable
03:03as the Andy Samberg that we know in this role, he's just fantastic.
03:07I think he's really going to surprise a lot of people, but you're fantastic in it as well,
03:11so congratulations.
03:13I know a lot of your heart and soul has gone into it in so many years, so I hope you're
03:17feeling kind of at peace now that it's kind of...
03:20I think I still feel scared, because the film isn't out yet, so, but then I think I always
03:25feel scared before a film comes out, you know, I think there'd be something wrong if I didn't
03:29get nervous, but thank you.
03:31No, you're great, always.
03:32Kate, lovely to see you.
03:34Thank you so much.
03:35You too, thank you very, very much.
03:36Yeah, thank you.