![]() I spent my nights drawing or chipping away at my ammonites.” I had to do many things to understand her rhythm. “I couldn’t have come home and cooked dinner for my family or fed my dog every night. “I needed to create an emotional bunker,” she explains. The actress lived in a cottage on her own during the film’s production. “She was less overtly emotional than me – that was quite difficult for me to get into.” “Mary Anning is a woman who is so different to me, she barely moved her hands apart from to work,” she says. Winslet dedicated herself to finding out all she could about Anning’s world, spending time in her hometown of Lyme Regis (on the Dorset coast of south England) not just to nail the local accent but also to go fossil hunting herself. “I don’t believe that actors should look glammed-up and glossed-over, especially in period films.” “Her life is hard, I appreciated that we weren’t seeing a rosy glow,” she says. “Everything felt so raw and real.”Īnning was not a polished society woman Winslet’s hair is wild and she is digging in mud and hitching up her skirts to relieve herself on a beach. “You can see the wrinkles on the back of my hands, you can see the translucency in my face and neck when it was cold,” says Winslet. As are the close-ups of those same hands doing detailed drawings of fossils – Winslet indeed learned how to draw intricate fossils as well as picking up Anning’s elegant handwriting style. The close-ups of weathered hands with dirty fingernails are Winslet’s. ![]() To portray Anning, she was actually digging through sand and mud. Kate Winslet got her hands dirty – literally – with her role as 19th-century fossil hunter Mary Anning in Francis Lee’s Ammonite.
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