what are your earliest memories of favourite films? i would go to a place called the independent theatre which would show films, and we were all allowed to flop around on beanbags they didn t have chairs, they didn t have seats, they had beanbags. and you were allowed to run around as kids and you would watch the movie. and one of the first movies i remember seeing was a film called walkabout, which was an australian film. isn t that crazy? that is a very strong imprint cinematically, and then i would be taken to the theatre. and that was probably my first love, was theatre. i remember getting up on stage, i remember watching, you know, those outrageous, fun, funny, um, pantomimes and that probably was some of my first desires to be on stage. were you a natural performer, did you always want to act? i was very tall and very pale and i had red, curly hair,
i m so happy i got to be satine. and i got to do it with ewen and i have such magical memories of it and i find the film magical and he s baz is magical. you played satine, the consumptive courtesan, opposite ewan mcgregor as the struggling writer. was it the first time you d sung professionally? i d sung at drama school, you know, when i would go to the little weekend drama schools. i was never that good. i always had friends who could belt it out and i was never a belter. but baz, when i went and auditioned for him, he had the audition with the song # nobody does it better. that song which is not in the movie and i remember sort of acting singing it. and baz onset as a director, what did you take away from him? well, he s an actor. he started as an actor. so, he can act it. so, you re getting that support.
which says something really weird about me. i had my first kiss in the shining, which is just really weird. i didn t see a lot of the shining, but yeah, it was my first i can t believe i m saying this tongue kiss. i d a kiss on stage in spring awakening. so anyway! laughs so i ve seen - the film again and again, but you know now i m blushing. i saw a clockwork orange. but i have seen a lot of the films, a lot of them i didn t understand, i ve seen them again, then understood them, had them explained to me, had them explained by film makers, had them explained by. and you know, and by stanley! i mean, can can you imagine asking stanley who hated being asked, may i add about the films and what something meant. i think the question that irritated him the most was what does that mean? and he would be like, ugh,
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but, yeah, ithink it was my first. i can t believe i m saying this tongue kiss. i d had a kiss on stage in spring awakening. so, anyway. she laughs erm, i have seen the film again and again, but, you know. now i m blushing. erm, but, yeah, so i saw a clockwork orange. but anyway, i ve seen all the films. a lot of them i didn t understand. i ve seen them again and then understood them, had them explained to me, had them explained by film makers, had them explained by. and, you know, and by stanley. i mean, can you imagine us getting stanley, who hated being asked, may i add, about the films and what something meant. i mean, his most. i think the question that irritated him the most is, what does that mean? and he d be, like, oh, please don t ask me that. eyes wide shut was a psychological thriller, though, based on the 1926 novella by arthur schnitzler, and you were cast with your then