Claire Foy has credited repeatedly watching Leonardo DiCaprio on display screen because the unlikely spark that led her to pursue performing.
The British actress, 41, made the admission whereas talking on the Zurich Movie Pageant, the place she collected the Golden Eye Award and introduced her newest function, H Is for Hawk, contemporary from its run at Telluride – saying her repeated journeys to see Leonardo in Titanic helped set her on the trail to a profession that has since introduced her Emmy awards and worldwide recognition.
She stated: “I didn’t suppose I might ‘make it’.
“However as a toddler, I bought used to being ignored after which not desirous to be ignored. I used to be very loud. As a young person, I went the other way – I prevented something that concerned anybody me.
“However I liked theatre and noticed Titanic 12 occasions or one thing obscene like that. Largely due to Leonardo DiCaprio.”
In her new movie, Claire performs Helen, a girl who turns to falconry after the sudden dying of her father, performed by Brendan Gleeson.
The drama, directed by Philippa Lowthorpe, is tailored from Helen MacDonald’s memoir.
Claire added she had an immediate connection to the supply materials for H Is for Hawk.
She stated: “I had a powerful, visceral response once I learn it.
“It was there for everyone to see. Individuals nonetheless weren’t courageous to say: ‘What do you want?’ It’s additionally an actual story of friendship and never abandoning individuals when they’re being very troublesome.”
Claire additionally opened up about how the function required her to study falconry.
She stated: “The coaching is principally to permit the chicken to belief you and get used to you. You simply need to be affected person and sort, and compassionate.
“It’s like a home spider – you might be scared of it however it’s extra scared of you.
“All of them had completely different personalities and I liked all of them.”
Claire’s profession took form via acclaimed performances in Little Dorrit (2008), Upstairs Downstairs (2010) and Wolf Corridor (2015), which she known as “a job of a lifetime”.
She recalled assembly the creator Hilary Mantel whose books are the premise of the present, saying: “I met Hilary Mantel and requested her what she had for lunch. I simply thought: ‘Say one thing, say one thing.’ I feel she went: ‘Oh expensive’.”
Claire additionally spoke about her experiences on the fantasy movie Season of the Witch in 2011.
She stated: “With Nicolas Cage! I used to be in Budapest with him, pondering: ‘What on earth?!’ Individuals have been getting helicopters and personal jets, and that doesn’t exist anymore.
“To work with an absolute residing legend… it was extraordinary.”
