10 Recent Movie Characters That Totally Messed Up Actors
4. Kate Winslet (Mary Anning) - Ammonite
It's somewhat refreshing to hear an actor openly admit to perhaps taking the idea of fully plunging into a role a little too far once they've had some time to digest the whole ordeal.
In the case of Kate Winslet during her getting into the head space of British palaeontologist Mary Anning for Franic Lee's Ammonite, the Oscar-winning actor has gone on record to state that her methods on the shoot were maybe a bit much.
When talking to Stephen Colbert on 'The Late Show', Winslet would go into detail about her experience after deciding to turn down a comfortable hotel for the shoot in favour of a dreary cottage in order to "do everything to be Mary" and "live a strange isolated life when (she) was playing her", saying:
"It was so isolated, cold and rattly that when there was a big storm the waves would hit the windows of the house and the power would go down and I would lie there thinking, 'Kate what are you doing?' Just go to the hotel with everybody else. I would eat this weird soup, and walk around sketching things... it was ridiculous, actually."
You can keep your method, give this acting titan some clean sheets and room service, I say.