There’s a telling moment in Little Children when Kate Winslet’s character Sarah Pierce, trapped in a loveless marriage and enmeshed in a messy affair, relates to Madame Bovary during a book club meeting with other stay-at-home moms.
“She can either choose a life of misery or struggle against it,” says Sarah. “She chooses to struggle. She fails in the end, but there’s something beautiful and even heroic in the struggle.”
Winslet’s affinity for struggling, questing characters who refuse to play by society’s rules began with her first feature, Heavenly Creatures, in which she played a murderous fantasist, and continues with her latest, the recently wrapped Revolutionary Road, in which her frustrated suburban housewife suffers from an ennui so acute that quixotic escape is the only option.
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BAFTA names Winslet ‘Artist of the Year’
Kate’s Starry Night
Oh, what a night.
It must have been one of the most dazzlingly celeb-packed evenings in recent Hollywood history… And Kate Winslet got to bask in the actorish glory.
Brit stars and others were out in glamorous force last night at the LA Britannia Awards bash, which celebrates the creme de la creme of film and TV talent. And this year’s honorary guest was none other than our gal Kate, who scooped up a v prestigious gong for British artist of the year.
The English rose of Hollywood looked every inch a star in an exquisite gown.
Kate Winslet arrived on stunning silver form.
GALLERY LINKS:
• Awards & Galas: 16th Annual BAFTA/LA Cunard Britannia Awards
This is the very first batch of pics from the event. Expect a lot more later!
Witherspoon desperate to work with Winslet
Reese Witherspoon is desperate to work with Hollywood actress Kate Winslet — because they have so much in common. The Oscar-winning actress insists she’d love to appear alongside the Titanic star on the big screen, because they both successfully juggle their careers with motherhood. Winslet has two kids, Mia, 7; and Joe Alfie, 3; while Witherspoon is mum to Ava, 8; and Deacon, 4. And Witherspoon believes the pair are so alike, they’re almost “the same person”. She says, “I had a chance recently to hang out with Kate Winslet and (Winslet’s husband) Sam Mendes. We just really get along. We’re from different countries but we’re sort of the same person. We’re the same age, we have children who are the same age. I just love Kate. I think she is just so great and I’d really love to work with her.”
Source: contactmusic.com
Kate, Maggie and Kristin in the fashion world
The gorgeous actresses reflected the sophisticated appeal of the German fashion house’s Boss Black brand
Sitting pretty in the celebrity-packed front row at a New York fashion showing, three famous faces, Kate Winslet, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Kristin Davis, ticked all the boxes when it came to adding A-list cachet.
The occasion was an exclusive look at the 2008 creations for Boss Black, the most polished line produced by German fashion house Hugo Boss, and the actresses effortlessly reflected the brand’s appeal.
English Rose Kate represented the Hollywood leading lady contingent, while demonstrating how to do day-time chic in a thigh-skimming LBD.
Fellow yummy mummy Maggie, also a fashion icon after her sizzling Agent Provocateur campaign, was on hand to lend her indie actress cool.
And of course every Big Apple event really calls for the presence of one of the Sex And The City quartet to give it fashion cred, which Kristin Davis provided in spades.
Source: Hello Magazine
Kate’s “Bum”
The painting of Kate Winslet’s “Bum” is currently on exhibition at the Bath Abbey in Bath, UK along with 60 other celebrity art paintings. Auction this Saturday, tickets still available.
For more information, go to http://www.paint4poverty.com
As well as being a five-time Oscar nominee, Kate Winslet is also a working mother with many of the everyday worries we all recognize.
And she has a refreshingly down-to-earth take on her image – in fact, she’s on a crusade to make women everywhere feel better about their bodies, beginning with her six-year-old daughter
Kate Winslet, firmly established as the leading British screen actress of her generation thanks to five Oscar nominations and a string of film successes, has always striven to retain the image of a down-to-earth working mother, with day-to-day concerns no different from the rest of us.
Life with her director husband of four years, Sam Mendes, and her children Mia, six (by her first husband) and Joe, three, may seem impossibly glamorous, and their homes – a New York apartment and a Cotswold manor house – are certainly a world away from the terraced house in Reading where she grew up.
Continue reading Capability Kate: How Ms Winslet combines motherhood and movie making
Vanity Fair Italy Interview
Kate Winslet
I’m not a model
Ten years ago she reached the global success with DiCaprio (“Thank goodness we didn’t have any love affair”), the press obsession for her weight. Today Kate Winslet is happy “when my daughter squeezes my fat”.
He’s in the corridor of the Ritz Hotel in Paris, in front of the entrance of a suite. For a moment he reminds me of Will Smith, but he’s Kate Winslet bodyguard, the woman that we all remember as the redhead Rose in Titanic (one of her 5 Oscar nominations), Clementine who drove Jim Carrey crazy in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Tula, Gandolfini’s lover in Romance & Cigarettes.
Now Kate is also the new Trèsor testimonial.
“How is she?” I ask to the bodyguard, while waiting for her to arrive. “Super” he answers with a worming smile.
