Category: Interviews/Articles

2011 Sep 08

Kate Winslet: “Lucky to be alive” after fire (video)

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Kate Winslet spoke to ET about her narrow escape from the recent fire that consumed the home of British billionaire Richard Branson.

The star of the new action thriller Contagion — in theaters today — said she and her kids felt “very lucky to be alive” after the fire just over two weeks at Branson’s sprawling Caribbean retreat on Necker Island. Speaking via satellite from London, Winslet said she is grateful to Branson and others on the island who remained calm and pragmatic while helping people escape the flames.

“We’re fine, we really are fine. And just — we’re just so lucky. We’re just so lucky that we woke up when we did, that we got out of the property when we did, because literally another five minutes and it could be a whole different story,” the actress said.

Winslet, 35, also spoke about how playing a doctor in Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion — in which a deadly new virus threatens all of mankind — has changed her own outlook on germs. “I’m much more obsessive now about taking shoes on and off and hand washing, and not touching handles in and out of public restrooms, etc.”

She said the subject matter of the movie has already become a reality in our society. “It’s something that is in people’s minds. You know, we are growing more accustomed to sudden panic — hearing about a new outbreak of a disease, similar to swine flu, that started in Germany and they think it came from cucumbers. I mean this is the world we live in now.”

Source: ET Online

2011 Sep 07

Kate Winslet covers V Magazine September 2011

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Kate Winslet graces the cover of V Magazine’s September issue, on newsstands today, September 8.

The 35-year-old British actress worked with photographer Mario Testino for The Heroes Issue, where she channeled one of her own heroes, Elizabeth Taylor.

Here’s what Kate had to share with the mag:

On her childhood: “I was extremely self sufficient. At the age of 9 I knew I wanted to be an actress. I had that sort of determination that that I can imagine in 9 or 10-year-old girl, for a parent, must have been fairly disconcerting… I didn’t know how on earth I was going to pull any of that off, but I was just sure of it.”

On nude scenes: “I hate it! Listen, make no mistake, I just get on it. I just go in and say ‘Oh f— let’s do it.’ And boom. If you complain about it or procrastinate it’s not going to go away. It’s a profoundly bizarre thing to do… You can literally be tangled in sheets, and you turn to the other actor and say ‘What the f— are we doing?’ ‘Dear Mum, at work today I had so-and-so’s left nut sack pressed against my cheek.’ It’s sort of unethical if you think about it in those terms.”

Source: Just Jared


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• Magazines/Clippings: V Magazine – September, 2011

2011 Sep 06

Venice Film Festival: “Carnage” press conference (video and captures)

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Here’s the video from the Carnage press conference at the Venice Film Festival, scroll down to download them.

You can also download the video from here:

I’ve added 237 HD screen captures conference to the gallery:


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• Movies: Carnage > Press Conference Captures

2011 Sep 05

Magazine scans: Hello! Magazine

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Thanks to my dear friend Mariana, we now have scans from today’s issue of Hello! Magazine in which Kate talks with exclusivity about the fire in Sir Richard Branson’s Mexican house:

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• Magazines/Clippings: Hello! Magazine – September 5, 2011

2011 Sep 03

Kate Winslet talks about her projectile vomit scene in “Carnage”

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Kate Winslet is at the Venice Film Festival in Italy, promoting her upcoming Roman Polanski film, Carnage and said a scene where her character projectile vomits still has her children talking.

“My kids came to work for the vomit day, and I am so thrilled that they were there because they literally have not stopped talking about it since. It was hysterical,” Winslet said during a news conference, the Associated Press reports.

The film, which is based on the play by Yasmina Reza, “The God Of Carnage,” follows two sets of parents who organize a “cordial” meeting after their sons are involved in a fight at school which leaves one child with broken teeth. The talk goes awry as the adults reveal their less civilized sides.

Winslet appears opposite Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz as Nancy and Alan Cowan, while Jodie Foster and John C. Reilly portray the victim’s parents, Penelope and Michael Longstreet. During an argument where Foster’s Penelope accuses Winslet’s character of lacking interest in her son’s behavior, Winslet vomits cobbler on Penelope’s rare collection of art books.

“While Kate was the one who threw up, Jodie and I had to clean up the vomit, so we had the more disgusting involvement with the vomit,” Reilly joked of the scene.

Winslet had kind words for Polanski, who is known for his work on “The Ghost Writer,” “Rosemary’s Baby” and “The Pianist.”

“If Roman Polanski invites you to join in any project, you really don’t say no,” Winslet said. “I had seen the play in New York so I was already very much a fan on the piece. I just felt extremely fortunate to be included.”

Though Carnage is set in Brooklyn, the film was shot on a soundstage near Paris since director Roman Polanski is limited to France and Switzerland, due to an Interpol warrant for 188 countries for extradition to the United States to face sentencing for having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977.

“The use of space was actually a very precise and confined and minimal and detailed affair,” Waltz said. “But that is exactly Roman’s forte. The precision, the detail, the exactitude. The microscopic way of working.”

Source: OnTheRedCarpet.com

2011 Aug 28

Huge “Contagion” update!

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Here are videos from Contagion featuring Kate, scroll down to download them.

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Note: You can watch more Contagion videos at TrailerAddict.

2011 Aug 25

Kate Winslet speaks out about Richard Branson’s mansion fire

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Kate Winslet has revealed that she is relieved after escaping the fire that engulfed the luxury Caribbean home of Sir Richard Branson.

The 35-year-old English actress and her two children were among the 20 guests who fled the eight-bedroom mansion on Necker Island as it was razed to the ground.

“I’m just so glad that everyone is safe. And this very easily could not have been the case,” the Sun quoted her as telling reporters.

“I will never forget Richard placing his arms around both my children as we were there watching the flames, and saying ‘At the end of the day, what you realize is that all that matters is the people you love. Everything else is just stuff. And none of that stuff really matters’,” she said.

The Titanic star helped carry the business magnet’s 90-year-old mom away from the burning property, which was struck by lightning during a tropical storm.

Source: newKerala.com