Kate Winslet has hailed the work of her co-star Michael Fassbender in the upcoming biopic of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, saying that the demands placed on the actor dialogue-wise were "like Hamlet, times two".
US publication Entertainment Weekly reports that Winslet said of the Danny Boyle-directed, three-act film: "Each act is continuous 45 minutes backstage of real time at each launch that Steve Jobs made during those time periods - '84 was the launch of the Macintosh, '88 was the NeXT computer, '98 was the iMac."
"Each act takes place backstage and literally ends with him walking from the wings on to the stage to rapturous applause," she said.
"We have nine-minute takes, sometimes even longer. I think there's a scene that Michael and Jeff [Daniels] had that was about 14 pages, so it really went for 11 minutes of continuous dialogue."
Winslet, who plays Apple executive Joanna Hoffman, added: "It's not unusual for an actor to learn huge passages of dialogue when you do a play. But it is unusual for an actor like Michael Fassbender to learn 182 pages of dialogue of which he's on every page."
Steve Jobs is due for release on November 13.
