Category: Interviews/Articles

2009 Jan 15

Kate Winslet – InStyle February 2009

kate-winslet-instyle-february-2009 Kate Winslet looks better than ever in Herve Leger on the February 2009 cover of InStyle. Here’s what the 33-year-old British beauty opened up about:

On not wanting plastic surgery: “I’m a normal human being. I don’t have any desire to change my body as a result of having had two kids. That’s a good thing, isn’t it?” (Oprah told Kate earlier this week: “God bless your real breasts.”

On how Hollywood has changed these past few years: “There is so much access to celebrity that it’s become harder to hold on to any mystery as an actress. The audience can have a fixed idea of you in their head.”

On not wanting to be referred to as a movie star: “I don’t feel like [one] in my life at all, and I don’t particularly think I behave like one. I don’t have my own plane. I don’t have a chef of a trainer. To me, you’re a movie star only during the time when you’re at the Academy Awards or at an important glamorous event. It’s very much a hat that you wear, and as soon as the event’s over, that hat comes off. I’m back to being me and being Mommy, and that’s my priority.”

On not having a natural impulse to pamper herself: “Literally, the one maybe celeb-y thing I do is the occasional facial. That is the only indulgent thing, where I just lie there and relax for an hour. You can’t answer the phone. You can’t get up and make soup. You’ve just got to lie there and have somebody make you feel nice.”

Source: Just Jared

2009 Jan 15

Two Bafta nods for Kate Winslet

Double Golden Globe winner Kate Winslet has two nominations for best actress at the British Academy Film Awards.

The 33-year-old star, a previous Bafta winner for Sense and Sensibility, has been nominated for her performances in Revolutionary Road and The Reader.

Slumdog Millionaire is also up for several prizes, including best film, best British film and best director.

Jonathan Ross will host this year’s ceremony, to be held at the Royal Opera House in London on 8 February.

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2009 Jan 14

Kate and Leo on Oprah

VIDEO LINKS:
• Interviews: Oprah – January 13, 2009

I’m so so sorry, I haven’t been able to post pics from the Globes yet because I have been so busy, but I promise you guys that I’ll post them really really soon!

2009 Jan 13

Blubbing Kate and the Brits’ goldrush

From the star who never wins, a gushing thank-you speech that never ends.

AS she tearfully explained, she has a habit of not winning.

Which is probably why Kate Winslet was so determined to soak up every second of glory as she accepted her two Golden Globe awards.

Unfortunately she could barely get her words out for crying.

But that didn’t stop the 33-year-old British actress from delivering two of the most rambling, tearful and gushing speeches after winning best supporting actress and best actress awards at the Los Angeles ceremony.

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2009 Jan 12

Backstage Report: What Was Kate Winslet Packing in Her Purse?

Kate Winslet wins and reveals the joys of blotting papers. Laura Dern wins and revisits her 1980s-hair past.

Here’s a rundown of the night’s backstage doings—and sayings:

5:20 p.m.: “I feel surprised…I feel relieved. I’ve been nervous all day,” says Winslet, who still looks jittery. One’s first major Hollywood award ever after a bajillion nominations will do that to one, apparently, and to Winslet, specifically.

• When Winslet accepted her award, she opened her purse, revealing to the camera what appeared to be two pieces of paper. Were they two acceptance speeches, one for The Reader and one for Revolutionary Road, for which she’s up for Best Drama Actress? Has the award-deprived Winslet come fully armed tonight? Yes, in a way. In the makeup department.

“They were blotting papers,” Winslet tells me. “It wasn’t a second speech. No further expectations.”

• Blotting papers are papers used to, yes, blot. If you must know the nitty-gritty details, they’re used to blot residue from your face. If your oily face has never heard of them, you’ve got company. “Somebody told me about them tonight,” blotting-paper convert Winslet reports.

Source:  E! Online

2009 Jan 12

Kate Wins …

In Sunday’s Golden Globes, Kate wins the Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for The Reader.

Also the Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture for Revolutionary Road.

– Said she was “shocked” as she had “a habit of not winning things”.
More news to follow

SOURCE:  BBC Ceefax, Sky News

2009 Jan 11

Late Show with David Letterman

VIDEO LINKS:
• Interviews: Late Show with David Letterman – January 8