跟读练习: Emotional interview With Kate Winslet 💙 | Goodbye June - 通过视频学习英语口语
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You've written everybody's story, so everybody's going to see...
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You can do it, Gabby.
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Kate, it's always so lovely to see you.
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You too.
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I don't know how I'm going to talk about this film, though.
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It's Mike Lee.
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It's you, though.
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This is very you.
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You directed it, produced it, you star in it, your son wrote it.
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But it feels so real
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and I think as well it feels very true of England it feels very British
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and I think Helen Mirren playing the title role of June
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you know for me she's almost the backbone of Britain in
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so many ways and I think we all admire her
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and look up to her and she's such a constant
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and she's so stoic and brilliant and
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when she said yes to playing this part I actually couldn't believe it
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because I'd had a telephone conversation with her
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and explained what the story was about
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and she said ah now i do need to stop you
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she said i do have two personal rules i i i don't ever want to play someone with dementia
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and i don't want to play somebody who has cancer
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and i said okay that's fine i totally understand don't you worry
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and she said um but send it to me anyway
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and i thought oh blimey and she read the script
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and a week later she said i am going to break my rule i would love to support you
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and i was just so moved by that decision
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that she had taken because it was very hard for her very emotional for all of us
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but i think knowing
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that she was going to be surrounded by this incredible ensemble
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cast of people who all said yes i mean gabby we couldn't believe tim spall
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tony collette andrea riseborough johnny flynn said yes they were like our wish list of people
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unbelievable team and and you know the the the sense of humor
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that they all brought to it and the joy
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and the sort of intention of good grace with
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which we really tried to put this film together
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and make every day feel like a joy and a celebration
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because it isn't a film about cancer
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or a film about a woman who dies it's a story about a very real complex messy family
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and it's set at christmas time big family june my gorgeous daughters
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so lovely they can all be here for you this is
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the most real christmas film i've ever seen it's not all science fiction
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or an elf coming out of the north pole well you know what i mean it's
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or it's not a rom-com this is christmas
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that all of us will know somebody in
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that film i i think i actually think
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that everybody in the film it's their their greatest performances i
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really really do it's quite outstanding oh that's such a lovely
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thing to say thank you children in it yes how did you get babies
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that they've none are you all related really actually you
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and andrea really sisters in real life well i feel like i do feel like andrea riseborough
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and i are sisters in real life she does feel like
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that to me
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because i've actually just worked with her three times in a row we did lee together
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and then a show called the regime for hbo
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and then went almost straight into goodbye june
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so she she holds an extremely special place in my heart
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and playing against her opposite her as these two sisters who haven't spoken for several years
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and suddenly have to come together at christmas
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because they are about to have to process the impending loss of the matriarch you know playing out
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that tension and um distance between the two of them um was was really really challenging
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and for me as the person directing him
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and i still can't quite believe that i was able to do
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that and it wasn't the plan
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that i was going to direct it wasn't planned no
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so the film is written by my son joe who is now 21
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and he started writing it when he was 19 years old
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and he had gotten a place on a screenwriting course at the at the National Film
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and Television School and the assignment across this intense six months was to write a screenplay.
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And now Joe had always shown a real passion for writing and had always been very good at it at school, not just in homework style,
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but plays, poetry, monologues, etc. So it didn't surprise me that that became a significant part of his own creativity,
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but that doesn't necessarily translate to being able to actually write a script it's beautifully written
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but he did it he did it
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and he came to me at the end of the course
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and said look i've written this thing and would you read it
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and and uh and he just wanted some feedback from me as his mom
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and i immediately said look i think this could be a film
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and he was like what are you talking about that's not don't be ridiculous
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and and i just encouraged him to finish it he still had about 20 pages to go
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and once it was complete and he'd gone through various different drafts
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and got very good at taking notes and feedback
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and making changes along the way it felt so present in my life
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because i'd seen him and worked alongside him going through
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that process that i was going to produce it
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and play one of the sisters but we were going to go out to directors
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and i just couldn't do it i suddenly realized i i couldn't let it go
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and i didn't want to miss out on the opportunity of
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showing him how to assemble a great group of people to tell his story
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and for him to be a part of seeing those characters
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that he'd created come to life what you and he have done though is that you have
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you've written everybody's story so everybody's gonna see
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you can do it gabby yes you can uh my mum died only six weeks after christmas
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and um so this this uh film is ring so true for and it will do for so many people
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and the humor that's around it as well because there were some very funny times
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when my mom was dying and everybody whenever you say that people always say how
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yes well my mom was always teasing me apart from anything else well that's it you know
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and and it mattered enormously that the matriarch was not this perfect person
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and sometimes in films you know i think we often witness the kind of film version of a reality
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and and i didn't want that I wanted it to feel real.
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I wanted for people to be able to see something of themselves in this story
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and perhaps get to a place where it might make audiences feel they can have some of those
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conversations that are uncomfortable to have and that typically, certainly in our culture, I think we really aren't good at talking about loss
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and you know you don't want to think about when
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that moment might come for you or for your own parents
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and in actual fact I think the way these characters these
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sort of messy siblings who are really kind of emotionally flatlining
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as they're coping with what's going on around them the way
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that the matriarch pulls them all together in order to make
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it okay for her to leave the world at peace it's it's it's extraordinary
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and actually it's a gift being part of this family do
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you all love your lover yes it's my biggest adventure how on earth did you cast those incredible children well
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so for me in anything in life children bring the joy
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even in the most tragic of situations children still bring the joy
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because they can see that grown-ups faces might be sad
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but actually they're immediately distracted by the packet of crisps they've just been offered
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or you know the toy kitchen in the corner
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or hiding underneath the bed
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and doing sponge things yeah she used to keep her mouth moist yeah yeah um and and doing stickers.
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And I just knew that we needed to find children who were very natural
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and very comfortable in being around big groups of people
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and also just happy to join in and that was the environment
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that I tried to create was one that felt not only inclusive
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and diverse and respectful but fun particularly for those kids and
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so they honestly felt like they were on a 35-day playdate
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and I just turned it into a game they never knew
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when the cameras were rolling so we as adult actors would be acting a scene
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and the children would just fold into whatever we were doing
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and often I would establish props that I wanted them
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or knew that they would go and be interested in
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and quietly we would follow those children and film the conversations they would have
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and the way
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that it worked the best of all was the children called
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each other only ever in their character names they only introduced one another to each other in their character names.
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And I did that because I had two five-year-olds, one typically developing five-year-old and a five-year-old with Down syndrome.
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And our five-year-old with Down syndrome is the most beautiful little boy named Benjamin.
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And his character on the scripted page was called Benji.
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And so I thought, okay, so that's straightforward.
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But then if I'm making it straightforward for the others, I have to make it straightforward for him and for our other five-year-old, Tybalt, who I still call Tybalt,
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even though his name is actually Elias and
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so i said to the teenagers amongst our group listen don't
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you think it would be really a good idea just to make it easier for the little ones
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so they don't get confused if we just all use character names
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and they were like yeah so they did
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and what it meant was whenever they were in front of a camera
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and didn't know that we were rolling they were calling each other in the names
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that they knew so every single exchange was always going to be usable
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because they were calling each other in character you know you
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said you didn't know you were going to direct it
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and now you've directed it
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and it is outstanding film does this mean there's more everybody
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said we were all waiting for kate to start directing now you've started does
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that mean there's no stopping you please say yes i mean
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yes good i loved it i mean look i honestly i loved being able to
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inject some of the things
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that i myself as an actress have wished to have experienced i was able to implement those things and
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that was you know keeping the actual set itself really simple
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collaborating very closely with the crew being able to bring in crew who i've known for a long time
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and have formed great relationships with
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so good people you know it's a tricky industry the film industry
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and sometimes you do come across people who can be slightly challenging
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and i just didn't want for
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that to be the case i wanted it to feel like a joyful kind sensitive working environment
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that would mean something to those actors and to create an environment that perhaps
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made them feel slightly different you know when you've got people like helen mirren
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and tim spall you know veterans of our industry there was
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nothing i could have given to them by way of actual direction
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that would have been new or clever and i knew that it wouldn't have been
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you know meaningful to have tried to do that
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but i did know that i could create a space for them
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that might have felt different might have made them feel slightly uh calmer more intimate quieter
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and so often i was able to lock off cameras in a fixed position
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and have absolutely everybody all our crew myself included walk out of the room close the door
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and just leave the actors performing a scene with nobody there
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and it made a difference and helen did notice that
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and she commented on it she said i don't think i've ever come across
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that before and so i was very happy for her
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that she was able to experience something different because
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when you're making a film that is with so many
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but it's largely set in one hospital room in the corridor immediately outside.
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You know, you do have to really rely on the performances from those actors to keep the momentum, to keep it going, you know,
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so that it never feels like you're watching the same thing.
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It never feels as though you're in a repetitive state emotionally.
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And also, as you mentioned before, that sense of brevity and the humour mattered enormously, not least because when you are facing something like a loss,
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odd, slightly humorous things do happen.
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And you do find yourself thinking, oh my God, why am I laughing?
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I'm supposed to be feeling sad.
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and actually that's also an important part of processing those conversations
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and being able to face the reality with some degree of togetherness
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and and being connected and
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and trying to remember to laugh through the moments where you can even though it's challenging
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and even though it's sad it's a really incredible film it's a it is a tough watch
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but it's also a beautiful watch and I think it's going to heal a lot of people as well.
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I think it's cathartic in some way and I think
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that it's a story as much about life as it is about loss
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and how a family are pulled closer together because of this one thing that they experience and because of that one woman,
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the matriarch, the mother.
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And I do find it very moving and I've been so close to it from beginning, middle, or period.
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And the story of your mother dying, you know, so it's all of it is all, and you put it out there for us all.
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It was almost impossible to detach, even though it's a fictional story and it's a fictional family.
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You know, my son, when he wrote it, he really remembered being a teenager when my own mum passed away
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and that we were all in that space because we all came from
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that one woman and we were all there for her.
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And so that became his emotional backdrop.
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and from there he created a fictional version of that story
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but it was yeah very hard for me to completely separate from what I had gone through myself
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and what my siblings had gone through as a family
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but in a way it almost stood me in good stead
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because visually I understood what the space needed to look like
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and feel like you know all of those things
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that you know you see and you feel in hospitals
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and also finding a way not to make it ever feel stark and lonely and cold
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because of the warmth of June and who she is as a person
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and also the warmth and love that is given by those phenomenal palliative care workers.
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I mean, they are such a gift to us all
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and it mattered enormously to honour that warmth in the way that the film looks and feels.
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And I never wanted it to finish.
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I absolutely loved making this film.
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Well, there will be more that you direct.
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I hope more that Jo will write as well.
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My word.
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Talking of writing, we always ask all of our guests to write a word in our book please okay um
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and it's going to go to charity so any word at all uh
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and if you could just sign your name underneath blue biro
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and the word is magnificent can i ask why you've chosen magnificent
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because because it's for children and to me children are magnificent
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and i really believe that
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when we look at our children we need to imagine them achieving their fullest potential in whatever form in life
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and that doesn't mean doing a big fancy job
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and achieving a level of success
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or notoriety it just means being magnificent inside who they are
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and how they feel about their place within the world amongst their friends and walking through life
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with magnificence at their core and i think it's perfectly possible of all children the world over Kate Winslet, thank you very much indeed Thank you
为什么通过这个视频练习口语?
观看凯特·温斯莱特接受采访的视频,不仅能够提升你的英语听力,还能够为你的口语练习提供极佳的素材。视频中涵盖了丰富的关于家庭、情感与文化讨论,这些内容对于理解日常对话和自然交流至关重要。在进行英语口语练习时,你可以模仿她的说话方式,从而更好地掌握英语表达。
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语法和表达在上下文中的应用
- 复杂句的使用: 在视频中,凯特使用了许多复杂的句子结构,例如“她是英国的支柱,在许多方面我们都仰慕她”。这种连贯的表达方式,可以帮助你理解如何在口语中自然地连接思想。
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- 形容词的使用: 凯特形容她的同事是“不可思议的团队”,这可以帮助你掌握如何用形容词来增强表达的效果,同时丰富自己的词汇量。
常见发音陷阱
在视频中,有一些单词的发音对于学习者来说可能比较具有挑战性。例如,凯特提到的“dementia”(痴呆症)一词,发音较为复杂,注意“de-”的发音要轻柔,同时“men”部分需清晰。此外,像“constant”(常态)这样的词,后半部分的音节需要特别注意,以免发音偏差。
通过英语影子跟读,你可以通过模仿凯特的发音,练习这些难度较高的单词,从而提高英语发音的准确性。这不仅能让你更有信心与人交流,也能确保你的发音接近母语者。
总的来说,观看这样的访谈类视频,不仅能丰富你的语言表达能力,还能通过模仿和实践提升你的英语水平。
什么是跟读法?
跟读法 (Shadowing) 是一种有科学依据的语言学习技巧,最初开发用于专业口译员的培训,并由多语言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。这个方法简单而强大:您在听英语母语原声的同时立即大声重复——就像是一个延迟1-2秒紧跟说话者的影子。与被动听力或语法练习不同,跟读法强迫您的大脑和口腔肌肉同时处理并模仿真实的讲话模式。研究表明它能显着提高发音准确性,语调,节奏,连读,听力理解和口语流利度——使其成为雅思口语备考和真实英语交流最有效的方法之一。