Kiss me Kate
OXSTU PHOTOGRAPHER Gareth Jelley grabbed these exclusive photos of Kate Winslet on the set of her new film last week.
Filming took place in Oxford for "Iris", the biographical film of Iris Murdoch in which Kate Winslet plays the leading role. On Thursday scenes were shot in Merton College, with the Union providing Friday's set.
Students were allowed to watch Kate Winslet, who plays the young Iris Murdoch, during rehearsal and filming which took place on a Merton staircase and in the front quad, but were told to 'keep back' to prevent them being showered with simulated rainfall.
During Thursday's filming, which went on until midnight, Kate Winslet's nanny was spotted, although the rest of the film's all-star cast, which includes Dame Judi Dench as the older Iris Murdoch, were nowhere to be seen. Jim Broadbent, still on the screens in Bridget Jones' Diary, plays her husband, John Bayley; Hugh Bonneville plays the younger John Bayley.
Jelley managed to take a selection of photographs, some of whichwere snapped up by the News of the World for a three-figure sum.
Iris Murdoch had a long history of involvement with Oxford University. A Classics graduate of Somerville College, she later returned to St Anne's to teach Philosophy. In 1956 she married John Bayley, a tutor in English at New College, Oxford, and later Warton Professor of English Literature.
She died in 1999, having had an enormously successful literary career, winning both the Booker and the Whitbread Prizes and having three plays adapted for the West End.
24th May 2001