Yahoo Lifestyle The 11 Best Moments From The Hollywood Reporter's Round Table
When Jennifer Lawrence, Carey Mulligan, Cate Blanchett, Jane Fonda, Brie Larson, Helen Mirren, Charlotte Rampling and Kate Winslet come together you know it's going to be good.
The actresses joined forces for The Hollywood Reporter's annual Actress Roundtable on November and it was magic.
Discussing everything from facing your fears to the pay gap to how to pee on film...
Here are a few of our favourite moments:
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The Hollywood Reporter's annual Actresses Round Table issue. Photo: The Hollywood Reporter
Helen Mirren on teaching the next generation to stop being polite:
I love the way you [Jennifer Lawrence] wrote about it because you wrote about it very simply and personally. I so recognised that thing you said about, 'I didn't want to be an asshole,' you know? I want to be polite. We've got to stop being polite. If I ever had children, which I don't, the first thing I'd teach a girl of mine is the words "f— off.
Jennifer Lawrence on her pay gap essay:
There's always a backlash in everything that you do, but it's not going to stop or change anything. And it's not only an issue in Hollywood. When you're asking about roles for men and women, men certainly have a longer shelf life. Men can play the sexy lead for 20 years longer than we can.
Charlotte Rampling on women getting ahead:
For me, it's a question of choice. [Pioneering female director] Liliana Cavani, she wanted more than anything to work and to be directing pictures — and that's what she did, and she carried on all her life doing that because that's what she wanted. And she made it happen. So if a woman is determined, she will get what she wants because we are very determined creatures.
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Carey Mulligan on facing your fears:
There's always the things that you think are going to be tough. I've been nude once, and I was like, "Oh, that's going to be a nightmare," and actually that was fine. It's kind of, "F— it, now I'm naked and everyone else isn't. This is hilarious.
Helen Mirren on females playing male roles:
I did do Prospero. Oh, there's always male roles I want to play. I'm so annoyed when I watch movies and go, 'That could have been played by a woman.' And it's driven me crazy to watch wonderful, brilliant actresses — my contemporaries when I was younger — diminish and disappear and mediocre actors carry on, male actors. It's so annoying. Just change the name is all you need to do.
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Kate Winslet on what she wouldn't do on camera:
I wouldn't be a part of anything that had acts of violence toward children. I don't think I would do a horror film, either. That just doesn't sit well on my soul.
Jennifer Lawrence on how she handled her first sex scene:
I got really, really drunk. But then that led to more anxiety when I got home because I was like, 'What have I done? I don't know'. And he was married. And it was going to be my first time kissing a married man, and guilt is the worst feeling in your stomach. And I knew it was my job, but I couldn't tell my stomach that. So I called my mom, and I was like, 'Will you just tell me it's OK?' It was just very vulnerable. And you don't know what's too much. You want to do it real, you want everything to be real, but then … That was the most vulnerable I've ever been.
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Helen Mirren on where she draws her inspiration:
Onscreen, babies and animals are my inspiration. They're so alive and there and not messed up in the head the way I am, you know. (Laughter.)
Jane Fonda on finding perspective:
I left acting for 15 years, and I think it's really nice to have another life. I took too much for granted when I was younger. I didn't really want to be an actor. I didn't really love it. And so I made a lot of mistakes. Oddly, I care much more about it now. I feel like a complete novice.
Jennifer Lawrence on watching herself on film:
I can't hear myself. I can stare at my double chin all I want, but hearing this androgynous voice, you can't even tell what sex I am.
Kate Winslet on peeing on camera in 1999's Holy Smoke:
No, it wasn't real. 'Cause you can't piss on cue. We did actually do a pee test because I did want to do the pissing part if I could. But when you stand up and pee, it doesn't go in a nice stream right down the centre, which is what they wanted. It just races for sanctuary down one side of your leg. That didn't work when we did the pee test, and I really did pee down my leg. So what we did is, we hung a bag of saline-drip fluid and dyed it slightly yellow. It was tied to the back of my hair on a small thread, and it just sat happily in the base of my back. And someone activated it.
