Kate has been nominated for two Screen Actors Guild awards …
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
KATE WINSLET / April Wheeler – REVOLUTIONARY ROAD
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
KATE WINSLET / Hanna Schmitz – THE READER
SOURCE:Â Sky News
Kate Winslet is one of Oscar’s most nominated actresses … who’s never won. As it stands, the British beauty’s scored five noms, for Best Actress and Best Supporting, but has yet to be called to the podium.
Maybe this is the year her luck will change — she has not one but two award-caliber performances coming up, in Revolutionary Road, directed by her husband, Sam Mendes, and reuniting her with her Titanic leading man Leonardo DiCaprio, and in the Holocaust drama The Reader, directed by Oscar nominee Stephen Daldry and co-starring Ralph Fiennes and German actor David Kross as his younger incarnation.
In the latter, based on a semiautobiographical best-seller, she’s Hanna Schmitz, a former concentration camp guard who takes up with a high schooler to form a bond that turns out to be life-changing for both of them. Moviefone talked with Winslet about how she prepped her co-star for sex scenes, what she thinks of her Nazi character … and that ever-elusive Oscar.
1. There’s a lot of nudity in this film; you’re known for being comfortable with nudity in your movies. How do you actually prepare to do a scene like that?
Honestly, you exfoliate your ass; you starve yourself; you work out like a demon … Obviously, none of that’s true [laughs]. How do you prepare? You don’t really, you know, you don’t really prepare. How can you? I don’t know even what that means. For someone like [my character] Hanna, it was very important to me that she looked real, that she looked absolutely real. And so in fact, quite the opposite; I sort of unprepared, you know, I didn’t go working out like a lunatic or anything like that.
Like many actors, Kate Winslet likes to draw on her own experiences. Unlike most, she has some serious baggage to dip into.
A summer’s day in 2007, on a film-set in suburban Connecticut, an hour outside Manhattan. Surrounded by a film crew, Kate Winslet is about to act a sex scene with Leonardo DiCaprio. Directing the scene is Sam Mendes – who also happens to be Winslet’s husband. It is the first time they have worked together, and she has been worrying about the scene since they began filming several weeks ago.
Winslet wanted to play this part – April Wheeler in a film of Richard Yates’s 1961 suburban-hell novel, Revolutionary Road – so much that she spent two years persuading Mendes, and then DiCaprio, to do the film. Being driven to the set this morning, she kept thinking, would Leo be put off by Sam? Or would he not care? They are old friends, after all. OK, but if Leo’s relaxed, will Sam feel threatened?
She is still thinking about it as they begin the scene. She asks DiCaprio how he feels. ‘Come on, Kate,’ he says. ‘We’re all grown-ups!’
Mendes is watching them impassively, and says, ‘OK, Leo, press your fingers right into her back, hard!’ Winslet thinks, ‘This is too weird,’ but then DiCaprio digs in his fingers, and she grabs him, and she realises: they are not bothered. The only anxious one is her. But is Sam really OK? ‘Grab her bum, Leo!’ Please let this be over soon, she thinks.
RICHARD YATES’S 1961 novel, “Revolutionary Road,†is far from the kind of property that typically becomes a big Hollywood movie, especially one starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio in their first post-“Titanic†outing together.
For one thing, the book is set back in the mid-20th century — an era that, until “Mad Men†came along to exhume it, was thought to have about as much entertainment potential as the Bronze Age. The story requires armies of boring fedora-wearing commuters to disembark from Grand Central every morning. The characters wear dopey clothes and drive boatlike cars, and everyone drinks and smokes too much — even pregnant women.
Nor does it help that “Revolutionary Road†is among the bleakest books ever written. It ends unhappily, with a gruesome death, and neither of the main characters is entirely likable to begin with. Partly autobiographical, the novel tells the story of Frank and April Wheeler, who in the mid-1950s move with their two children to the ’burbs (the movie was shot on location in Darien, Conn., a good deal more upscale than the Wheelers’ town) and from the minute they get there hold themselves apart.
A summer’s day in 2007, on a film-set in suburban Connecticut, an hour outside Manhattan. Surrounded by a film crew, Kate Winslet is about to act a sex scene with Leonardo DiCaprio. Directing the scene is Sam Mendes – who also happens to be Winslet’s husband. It is the first time they have worked together, and she has been worrying about the scene since they began filming several weeks ago.
Winslet wanted to play this part – April Wheeler in a film of Richard Yates’s 1961 suburban-hell novel, Revolutionary Road – so much that she spent two years persuading Mendes, and then DiCaprio, to do the film. Being driven to the set this morning, she kept thinking, would Leo be put off by Sam? Or would he not care? They are old friends, after all. OK, but if Leo’s relaxed, will Sam feel threatened?
She is still thinking about it as they begin the scene. She asks DiCaprio how he feels. ‘Come on, Kate,’ he says. ‘We’re all grown-ups!’
Mendes is watching them impassively, and says, ‘OK, Leo, press your fingers right into her back, hard!’ Winslet thinks, ‘This is too weird,’ but then DiCaprio digs in his fingers, and she grabs him, and she realises: they are not bothered. The only anxious one is her. But is Sam really OK? ‘Grab her bum, Leo!’ Please let this be over soon, she thinks.
Continue reading Come on, Kate, he says. We’re all grown-ups …
Could this finally be Kate Winslet’s year for an Oscar?
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Continue reading Could this finally be Kate Winslet’s year for an Oscar?
Frost/Nixon and The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button led the nominees as the contenders for the Golden Globes were announced.
Both films were nominated for five awards, including best drama, for which they will be up against British director Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire, The Reader and Revolutionary Road.
Briton Kate Winslet took two nominations, including best actress for Revolutionary Road and best supporting actress for The Reader. Meanwhile, fellow British actress Kristin Scott Thomas was nominated in the best dramatic actress category for her role in I’ve Loved You So Long.
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