Ondrej Holzman One of the acting stars that we will see on the screen in the fall Steve Jobs, is undoubtedly Kate Winslet. Today, the thirty-nine-year-old winner of the Oscar for the best female performance in a leading role in a film Precomputer however, she revealed that she landed the role in the expected film about the Apple co-founder quite by accident.
In the movie Steve Jobs, directed by Danny Boyle from a screenplay by Aaron Sorkin, Kate Winslet played Joanna Hoffman, who was a marketing specialist at the launch of the first Macintosh. In a magazine interview Vulture however Winslet she revealed, by what chance she got the role.
Winslet learned from her make-up artist in the middle of filming that the movie about Steve Jobs was going to be made and that Joanna Hoffman was in it The Dressmaker somewhere in Australia. Producer Scott Rudin and director Danny Boyle contacted the make-up artist to see if she would join them on the set, and when she shared this offer with Winslet, she was immediately interested in the upcoming film.
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As Winslet learned more about the Polish-Armenian immigrant who made a big career in the United States after coming across the ocean, she was determined to get the role of Joanna Hoffman. She called her husband to buy her three different long, dark wigs and sat down at the computer trying to find pictures of Hoffman.
"There are really only a few photos of her online and I immediately thought, 'yeah, I don't look like her at all, great.' So I put on a wig and wiped all the makeup off my face," Winslet describes her application for the role, who then took a photo and sent the photo to producer Rudin. Then everything went right at once and after a few meetings, three and a half weeks later she was already rehearsing in San Francisco.
During unique filming, when the actors always rehearsed for two weeks due to the unconventional three-act script, and then shot for two weeks, Winslet is said to have connected with Michael Fassbender so much that on screen her relationship with him will really look like the one Steve Jobs had with Joanna Hoffman.
“I believe it was very similar to the relationship that Steve and Joanna had together. She was like his work wife. She was an extraordinary, fearless Eastern European who was practically the only person who could bring Steve to his senses," explains Winslet, who met Hoffman herself several times for the film role.
Although Hoffman's role in the film is not insignificant, the main character is undoubtedly Steve Jobs. Michael Fassbender was on every one of the 182 pages while reading the script, but Winslet says it's not really all about Jobs. "Sorkin wrote it in such a way that it's actually almost not about Jobs at all. It is about how this man 1984% dictated how we will all live today and how we will function as people. The film is about all of us, all of us today, not in 1988, 1998 or XNUMX," says Winslet.
There will be three acts of the film around the mentioned years Steve Jobs spin. Everything will start with the introduction of the original Macintosh, followed by the introduction of the first NeXT computer and finally the iMac. To Czech cinemas the expected picture will arrive on November 12.
The movie Jobs is not actually about Jobs. Winslet said. Oh well