Kate Winslet has revealed she tried out her ‘flirty’ accent for her role in The Regime by leaving funny voicemails for the show’s producer.
The Oscar winner, 48, takes center stage as fictional dictator Chancellor Elena Vernham in the HBO satire, who risks plunging her fictional European country into civil war.
Speaking at an FYC panel on Wednesday, Kate shared that while she was preparing to try out her accent on set, she was sending voice messages to executive producer director Jessica Hobbs.
She said: ‘It never made sense for me to speak like myself. I didn’t really know what that meant or what I was going to do about it. I just knew I had to find something that didn’t feel too close to me.’
Kate explained that she experimented with the accent at home, prompting reactions from her family that included: “Don’t do that.” In fact, she has made my ears bleed.
Kate Winslet has revealed she tried out her ‘flirty’ accent for her role in The Regime by leaving funny voicemails for the show’s producer.
The Oscar winner takes center stage as fictional dictator Chancellor Elena Vernham in the HBO satire, who risks plunging her fictional European country into civil war.
Explaining the voicemails, the Titanic star added that she was working up the courage to try out her accent with executive producer and director Stephen Frears.
“I knew he was just going to have an opinion, and once it came out of his mouth, I couldn’t stop hearing it, so I shared it with Jess (Hobbs), who was very positive in her response,” Kate added.
‘So I sat Stephen down (and tried out the voice). “See if maybe I did that?”
‘And then a little bit and talking to you a little flirtatiously, I could probably get you to do anything… Luckily, he was laughing. He looked at me and said, “You have to do that for six months.”
Kate Winslet is no stranger to adopting challenging accents for her television roles, having emulated Pennsylvania’s Delaware County accent for her role in the HBO series Mare Of Easttown.
She told the Los Angeles Times in 2021: ‘It’s interesting, because I realize that as I learned the dialect, it was definitely affecting the emotional register of the voice that I was finding for Mare.
“Since she was born there and raised there, I had to do pretty well,” he continued. “She was a little crazy, I’m not going to pretend she wasn’t.”
Comes after Kate revealed that her rise to fame after her role in Titanic turned her “very normal life” into a “traumatic” roller coaster.
Speaking on an FYC panel, Kate shared that while she was preparing to test out her accent on set, she was sending voice messages to executive producer and director Jessica Hobbs.
Explaining the voicemails, the Titanic star added that she was working up the courage to try out her accent with executive producer and director Stephen Frears.
She said: “It never made sense for me to speak like myself… I just knew I had to find something that wasn’t too close to me.”
Kate cut a chic figure in a chic white blazer during her appearance at the panel event.
The actress admitted that she found it difficult to navigate her new life in Hollywood after the hit 1997 film, also starring Leonardo DiCaprio, because she was not used to being the center of attention.
Following the release of Titanic, he confessed that having a normal life quickly became “inaccessible,” adding that he found it difficult to “have fun” and enjoy his stardom.
Kate, who was 21 when she filmed the film, candidly revealed her true feelings about becoming a Hollywood star as she spoke about how her humble upbringing made her rise to fame even more dramatic.
He lifted the lid on the aftermath of filming the Titanic while speaking in Sunday Sit-In with Willie Geist.
He also noted that because of his “normal” childhood, he found it difficult to enjoy his new life.
She said: “It really wasn’t much fun because I guess I didn’t have the kind of infrastructure that went hand in hand with being a famous person.”
‘I lived in a little two-bedroom flat in north London, you know? I had no security outside my house. I could never have allowed myself that kind of thing.
It comes after Kate revealed that her rise to fame following her role in Titanic turned her “very normal life” into a “traumatic” rollercoaster.
She explained that at the time she couldn’t ask for privacy because she felt like she had to just “shut up and be grateful.”
Kate noticed that the overwhelming amount of paparazzi surrounding her house soon became unbearable.
“I’m just trying to figure out how to walk out the door and not have a seizure because of how many paparazzi flashes were in my face,” he said.
The Hollywood star also opened up about how her normal childhood made it even harder for her to adjust to life in the fast lane.
The entire series of The Regime is available to stream on HBO Max in the US and Now TV in the UK.
