Kate Winslet on Women Making Movies About Inspiring Women!
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00:00Hi Kate, lovely to meet you, you look absolutely sensational, you're a vision!
00:05Thank you, thank you very much.
00:06Stunning! Lee is such an inspirational woman, I love this film, you're also an inspirational woman,
00:11but tell me, nine years, tenacity, you've worked so hard to get this film made,
00:17why do you think it's so hard to get films about inspiring women made by women?
00:24I mean, you know, how long is a piece of string?
00:27I just think, I don't know, I think people are nervous of perhaps financially backing
00:32a film about a complicated, flawed, incredibly interesting, fascinating,
00:36historically significant person in our world.
00:40But, you know, sometimes that happens, but it's up to us, it's up to us actresses
00:45and female directors and producers and filmmakers to just keep going and to never give up
00:50and honestly that is what I did.
00:52And it is, you know, I sound like a crack record saying I can't believe it's nine years,
00:55but it is nine years from the point that I first met Anthony Penrose, Lee Miller's son
01:00and we started talking about the film, I met him in 2015 and so it really has been all this time
01:06and my son was one at the time and he's now nearly eleven and he's like,
01:10oh, is it done yet? Are you still making Lee Miller? It's very funny, very funny.
01:15And the inspiration for this came from a table, is that right?
01:18Yeah, so I was very, very lucky to have some friends who work in an auction house
01:23down in Cornwall and they called me and they said, this incredible table is going to have to tell you about it,
01:28the most extraordinary story and I said, tell me.
01:30So it was a table that was in a house owned by Annie Penrose, who was the sister of Roland Penrose
01:36who at the time, Lee Miller and Roland Penrose were lovers in the beginning of their relationship
01:41and all those surrealists would go to this house and experience these kind of Hellenistic summers all together
01:47and this was the kitchen table where they would prepare food to sit and eat and feast and drink
01:52and talk and share and it's that table.
01:55Anyway, I got the table and I sat down at it and my god of tables could talk
02:01and I just sat there and I thought, Lee Miller?
02:03God, why hasn't anyone ever made a film about her?
02:06And it turned out that many people had actually tried to,
02:08but Tony always felt very strongly that they never quite got her, who she truly was
02:13and that's why it was important that in our film, we captured that pivotal decade of her life
02:19which really defines who she truly is, truly became and went on to be
02:23and the legacy that she's left behind.
02:25Well listen, you need to auction one of your tables next.
02:27Oh my god, maybe I should.
02:29Thank you so much, Kate.