Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes CBE (born 1 August 1965) is an English film and stage director, producer and screenwriter. In theatre, he is known for his dark re-inventions of the stage musicals Cabaret (1994), Oliver! (1994), Company (1995), and Gypsy (2003). He directed an original West End stage musical for the first time with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2013).
For directing the play The Ferryman, Mendes was awarded the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play in 2019.
Kate Winslet is opening up about her son’s experience with watching Titanic for the first time.
The 48-yera-old actress spoke about her youngest child, Bear, 10, whom she shares with husband Edward Abel Smith, finally seeing the film. “My youngest has seen Titanic, he saw it last year,” she told E!
News. “He cried a lot, and he kept having to pause it, and he was very upset.” Keep reading to find out more… While she said her children have “certainly not” seen her entire filmography, there is one movie that her two oldest children, Mia and Joe—whom she shares with exes Jim Threapleton and Sam Mendes, respectively—love in particular. “My older two, who are nearly 24 and 21 they love Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Yeah, that’s a big favorite for them,” she said. “They’ll just sort of say, ‘Oh, I saw Eternal Sunshine the other day,’” Kate explained. “I’m like, ‘What you watched it without me?’” “I think Eternal Sunshine was one of those films that seemed to really capture people’s minds, sort of a Zeitgeist thing that happened around that film.
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