A beautiful friendship born on a film set… Monday March 4, 2024, Prime Video put its new mini-series online, The Regime. In it, Kate Winslet plays the authoritarian leader of a fictional country in Central Europe, while Guillaume Gallienne plays the role of her husband, Nicholas, who is a little overwhelmed by the situation. The day of the release of The Regimeit’s on the set of C to youon France 5, that Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine asked the actor: “What appealed to you in order of priority in The Regime ? The political statement and its resonance with personalities like Donald TrumpKim Jong-un or Vladimir Putin […] to play a consort […] or just be Kate Winslet’s husband?”. In complete transparency, Guillaume Gallienne responded: “Kate Winslet’s husband, whatever happens! Really. Read her the directory, cook for her… Whatever she wants!“. Indeed, the one who has won numerous awards for Boys and Guillaume, to the table !got along very well with the star of Titanic. “She’s extraordinary, she’s great! We got along very, very well”he slipped.
Guillaume Gallienne: “I spent the entire filming sharing the house with her”
After seeing an extract from the mini-series, the member of the Comédie-Française remembered: “Right from the start, we had a laugh. We had a scene in a car and she said: ‘I can feel him, he’s looking at me’. I gave the tarpaulin that separated us from the driver a huge blow. I said: ‘Don’t look!’ It made him howl with laughter!”. Shortly after, Kate Winslet made him an offer that he couldn’t refuse. “The day after, she told me: ‘Listen, production has made a house available for my family and me, there are extra rooms, come on! You’re not going to stay at the hotel’. So I spent the whole shoot sharing the house with her, it was cool.”he confided, before adding that he was impressed by “his intelligence, his simplicity”. Under the spell of the British actress, Guillaume Gallienne clarified: “She is very direct, very simple, she is very caring. She ensures that as soon as there is a new actor on the series, even if he is there just for a day, she will always arrange to have five minutes with the coffee machine so that the person is comfortable. Which means that when we arrive at rehearsals, everyone is equal!”.