In a Q&A about I Am Ruth, Kate Winslet discusses the reality of parental guilt and acting alongside her daughter, Mia Threapleton.
reveals that acting alongside her daughter Threapleton created 'personal overlap' but it was a 'special experience.' As she blinks back tears, she recalls her daughter acting out a panic attack scene. ‘There were moments when I would look at Mia and go, "Oh my god, she’s doing it. She’s really doing it." And I wanted to hug her and make it stop. My instinct was to go, "I’ve got you," straight away, and I had to resist it at every turn.
Although the plot was originally scripted, all the dialogue ended up being improvised. 'Not one word out of our mouths was scripted,' Winslet says. 'Everything we said we made up on the day, in the moment; nothing was written down. That makes what Mia does doubly impressive, because when you’re a young actor, having the courage to say what you think and come forward with an idea can be really quite challenging.
With the improvised scenes, Winslet and Threapleton looked to personal experience for their characters and reveal that many of the emotional scenes in the film were inspired by real-life conversations. 'I’ve been on the periphery of friends who have raised teenagers, who have gone through some absolutely horrific things,' Winslet says. 'So a lot of the conversations you hear, even specific words you hear come out of my mouth, are direct from things friends have said to me.
'There’s that scene where Ruth sits on the bed and says, "I just don’t know who I am, I’m really struggling, I don’t like myself, I don’t look forward to anything", that’s literally a conversation I had with a very close friend a few years ago. I along with Mia, wanted to honour those stories.
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