 Also that year, she appeared as Geraldine Barclay, a prospective secretary, in the Royal Exchange Theatre production of Joe Orton's farce "What the Butler Saw".While promoting "Heavenly Creatures" in Los Angeles, Winslet auditioned for the minor part of Lucy Steele for a 1995 film adaptation of Jane Austen's novel "Sense and Sensibility", starring and written by Emma Thompson.Impressed by her reading, Thompson cast her for the much larger part of the recklessly romantic teenager Marianne Dashwood.