![]() ![]() And subsequently, when the layers come off, you feel like there’s a woman in there. She needed to feel quite heavy emotionally, quite guarded, quite stoic-like a pack horse. For me, the costuming of Mary was very significant because it didn’t just add all of those emotional layers to her, but it added to heftiness. But we had to be practical, so she does wear fisherman’s trousers underneath her skirts which would have been to keep her legs warm and also to protect her knees from climbing on those cliffs.Īnd the layering of clothes was something that was very important, because of course when those clothes come off, when they peel away, you see the person a little more. I wanted to be appropriate and accurate, as well. And just because this is a woman who has a relationship with another woman doesn’t mean she can’t wear skirts. The costuming of Mary was quite painstaking because we could have just had her wear trousers, you know? But I didn’t want to do that because I feel I’ve seen that done before. Kate Winslet: That’s a really interesting question and I’m really grateful to you for asking and for noticing those things, because the costuming of these characters was really important and quite difficult. Especially being on the beautiful beach in Lyme Regis and watching Kate-who was able to sort of move around and do whatever she wanted to do-and thinking, “that’s usually me!” That really does have an effect on you as a person and your energy levels and how you communicate. I’m usually playing the girl that defies society and breaks the rules in terms of what she wears and how she behaves. For me, this was actually my first experience-regardless of it being a period film and having done other period films where I was the one in the corset. Saoirse Ronan: I think the costumes really gave us an insight into the type of life and lifestyle these women have at the start of the film. How did the costuming in Ammonite help you access your characters? Mary is buried under all of these layers and Charlotte is constricted by tight corsets. ![]() Something I noticed in the film is that the costumes really represent what these individual characters are going through. To give her back her finds, give her back her power, feels like a very important thing to do. remarkably accepting of how hard her life was. Her compassionate side and her remarkable stoicism. So to me, this was a beautiful way of celebrating not just a woman’s life and her achievements, but her inner workings, her private world. She lived in a patriarchal society that was steeped in a level of systematic repression that sadly exists still, I think, in some parts of the world today. Her great successes and her historically scientific finds were taken from her by rich, powerful men who weren’t as clever as she was. And why didn’t I? For the same reason that none of us know very much about Mary Anning. I feel I should have known more about Mary Anning. I was so gripped by how powerful and truthful and grounded in a possible reality that it felt. When I started reading the script, I just couldn’t put it down. Kate Winslet: I’m really interested in telling stories with sincerity and truth and integrity. What was it about Ammonite that made you choose this as your next project? Nerdist: Kate, I imagine you can do just about anything at this stage in your career. A power we discussed at length, along with the joys of working together, how the film’s costuming helped them find their characters, and what it was like to choreograph their own love scenes. It’s a power both Winslet and Ronan found in making Ammonite, as well. They find not only intimacy and love in one another, but incredible power. Charlotte’s arrival in her life creates a blossoming effect for both women. But she is otherwise closed off from the world, sheathing her sparkling interiority behind layers of cotton and wool. Anning spends her day foraging for fossils, making discoveries that will shift the way we think about the Earth’s creation. Charlotte suffers from crippling melancholia. ![]() In this fictional account, Anning falls in love with her friend and work companion Charlotte Murchison (Ronan). The film tells the story of Mary Anning (Winslet), the real-life paleontologist and fossil collector. In Ammonite, it’s Ronan who is the laced up, societal woman and Winslet who gets dirty. A return to the soul-searing period work that made Winslet a star and a cosmic shift for Ronan, who is used to playing more free-spirited heroines. At least, that’s the impression I gleaned from Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan, who recently spoke with Nerdist about their work on the profound love story. Whether you’re a viewer watching it play out on screen, or an actor starring in its key moments. ![]()
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