KATE Winslet wants to make another film with her husband, Sam Mendes. Kate starred in Revolutionary Road with Leonardo DiCaprio, which was directed by Mendes, but she won her Academy Award for The Reader, directed by Stephen Daldry and backed by Harvey Weinstein’s Weinstein film company.
This led to some highly stressed situations for the 33-year-old actress because, initially, Revolutionary Road was to have had the field to itself.
But Weinstein took a gamble – some saw it as a masterstroke, others had other words I can’t print here to describe it – and decided to release The Reader this season.
Category: Interviews/Articles
2009 Feb 27
My Oscar? It’s going in the loo says Kate
2009 Feb 24
Quotes from former Directors and Producers!
Heavenly Creatures:
“She scared the hell out of me,” recalls the Weinstein Co. honcho Harvey Weinstein, who released that early film and also distributed “The Reader.”
Titanic:
Her early penchant for costume dramas had initially dissuaded James Cameron from even considering her for the part of Rose in his epic “Titanic,” a prejudice he reconsidered after seeing almost every actress in the 18-to-21 age range. “She was already known as ‘Corset Kate,’ ” recalls the director, who admits, “When I met her, all that intellectualizing went out the window.”
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2009 Feb 23
Kate Winslet defends right to cry
Oscar winner Kate Winslet has defended her right to cry when accepting film awards.
Kate Winslet has said she ‘doesn’t care’ about the criticism she has received in the press for being over-emotional when accepting awards. Though she was tear-free when she collected the Best Actress award at Sunday’s Oscars she was criticised heavily for crying earlier this year when collecting the same honour at the Screen Actor’s Guild Awards but she’s insisted she has no plans to change. “I really don’t care and quite frankly, I’m sad that my country can’t be pleased with the successes of their own kind, as the US does,” she told the Daily Telegraph. “I got through it, I didn’t blub, I remembered everybody and hopefully the Brits won’t be able to be mean to me.”
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2009 Feb 22
Latest magazine scans
GALLERY LINKS:
• 2008 Magazines: Entertainment Weekly – December 19
• 2009 Magazines: InStyle – February
• 2009 Magazines: Elle UK – February 9
2009 Feb 21
Huge videos update!!!
VIDEO LINKS:
• Interviews: GMTV – January 19, 2009
• Other Interviews: 24th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival – January 23, 2009
• Appearances: 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards: Red Carpet Interview – January 25, 2009
• Other Interviews: 59th Annual Berlinale Film Festival: The Reader Interview – February 4, 2009
• Appearances: 2009 BAFTA Awards: Best Actress Speech – February 8, 2009
• Interviews: The View – February 11, 2009
2009 Feb 21
Winkleman: ‘Leave Kate Winslet alone’
Claudia Winkleman has defended Kate Winslet following recent criticism of her behaviour at award ceremonies.
Winslet was accused of being “over the top” when she became emotional at the Golden Globes in January. The actress went home with two awards at the ceremony, winning the best drama actress gong for Revolutionary Road and the best supporting actress prize for The Reader.
Earlier this month, the star put in a more restrained performance after winning the best actress award at the BAFTAs.
Winkleman has now admitted that all eyes will be on Winslet at the Academy Awards on Sunday night. The TV host is fronting Sky’s coverage of the ceremony, which could see the star walking away with her first Oscar.
“I think everyone has been unfair. This is her moment. Leave her alone,” Winkleman told the Daily Record. “At the Golden Globes she got up and showed how much it mattered to her.
“These awards really make a difference: what house they can buy, what roles they get offered, what money they can charge for each film. If she wins, she’ll be an Academy Award winner forever so she was really moved to get a Golden Globe.
“Then she came to the BAFTAs and was restrained and people say she didn’t show much emotion. The girl can’t win.”
Source: Digital Spy
2009 Feb 19
TIME Cover: Best Actress – Why It’s Kate Winslet
Best Actress – Why it’s Kate Winslet
By Mark HarrisIt’s 11 days before the Academy Awards, and Kate Winslet is giving her third best performance of the year. The occasion is a lunch at New York City’s Oak Room at which 100 or so invited guests have gathered to honor her performance in Stephen Daldry’s The Reader. This particular publicity event, orchestrated in the 26th mile of the Oscar marathon, has multiple purposes: it’s designed to entice any wavering voters in the few days before the last postmark lands on the last ballot. It’s also intended to defuse complaints that the movie’s treatment of the Holocaust is too manicured. Thus, Elie Wiesel has been drafted to host the meal, which would have been a masterly counterstroke of damage control for distributor Harvey Weinstein had Wiesel not bailed at the last minute to attend — oh, bitter irony of the red-carpet campaign trail! — a bris.
But above all, this midday fete is engineered to give the movie’s star one final turn in the spotlight. By the time Winslet arrives, she has already participated in several hours of diligent self-exposure that day, illuminating for both Larry King and the women of The View the complexities of pretending to have sex with Leonardo DiCaprio in the bleak marital drama Revolutionary Road while the film’s director, Sam Mendes — her husband — watched.
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