Kate Winslet would have blended in as just another NYC resident if it weren’t that everyone else around her stood out as well! Kate was back at work on the set of her new period piece film Mildred Pierce on the streets of NYC on Sunday and Monday. Despite having to work in front of a crowd of spectators, Kate kept in character!
Yesterday was the second day of filming:
GALLERY LINKS:
• Mildred Pierce: on the set – April 18
• Mildred Pierce: on the set – April 19
Doing her best to move past her divorce woes, Kate Winslet was back in work mode in New York City today.
Dressed up in costume, the Oscar winning actress busily shot scenes for her brand new HBO project titled Mildred Pierce.
GALLERY LINKS:
• Mildred Pierce: on the set – April 18
Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet is narrating a new video for PETA to try and help stop the production of foie gras.
The Reader star, 34, narrates a new video calling for a ban on the sale of the delicacy and the clip has been sent to department stores across the world, including Fortnum and Mason in London and El Corte Ingles in Madrid.
The video also shows undercover footage of what the ducks and geese have to go through to make the “delicacy of despair” and it is hoped it will persuade bosses to take it off the shelves.
Winslet says: “To produce foie gras, ducks and geese are force-fed enormous amounts of grain and fat, which causes their livers to swell to many times the normal size.”
Watch the video below:
Kate Winslet has lent her voice to narrate a new video on the cruelty of foie gras.
“Foie gras is sold as an expensive delicacy in some restaurants and shops, but no one pays a higher price for foie gras than the ducks and geese who are abused and killed to make it,” Winslet says in a video for PETA.
“Please join us in helping ducks and geese by pledging never to eat foie gras.”
Foie gras is a delicacy produced by force feeding geese to a point where their livers swell tremendously, up to ten times their normal size.
As a result, the animals become sick and unable to move naturally.
The birds’ throats often bleed from the tubes placed in them for feeding and according to The Daily Latest News, the bodies of the birds who have died show heavy internal bleeding, fungal and bacterial infections and hepatic encephalopathy – a brain ailment caused by liver failure.
Winslet joins several other British celebrities who’ve spoken against the industry, including Sir Roger Moore.
Source: Vegetarian Star
Having served as maid — and romantic rival — for Strindberg’s Miss Julie this season in Patrick Marber’s update for Broadway (After Miss Julie), Marin Ireland has signed up for another stretch of servitude, picking up after Mildred Pierce in a five-hour HBO miniseries that allows the Oscared Kate Winslet to take a whack at the long-suffering mother role that won Joan Crawford her little gold man.
“No, I’m not Veda,” she hastened to add. “Evan Rachel Wood is playing Veda so that will be exciting. I’m playing Lottie, who’s their maid-slash-assistant baker.”
It was news to her that her role was played by the daft and squeaky Butterfly McQueen (“Prissy” in Gone With the Wind), but she bounced back with panache: “I play very against type all the time so I feel this is sorta in keeping with my policy.”
Guy Pearce, Mare Winningham, James LeGros and Brian F. O’Byrne co-star in the roles originated by Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Jack Carson and Bruce Bennett in the 1945 flick. Arden and Ann Blyth (as the problematic Veda) earned their only Oscar nominations here, supporting La Crawford. Blyth soon evolved into sweeter roles.
The miniseries remake is being directed by Todd Haynes (Far From Heaven).
Source: Playblog
Vogue cover girl and Oscar winner Kate Winslet is lending her support to a campaign for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) – appealing to some of Britain’s top chefs to banish foie gras from their menus.
“Foie gras is sold as an expensive delicacy in some restaurants and shops. But no one pays a higher price for foie gras than the ducks and geese who are abused and killed to make it,” Winslet tells today’s Daily Telegraph.
The actress has narrated a video featuring footage Peta claims was filmed undercover on a foie gras farm – in which geese and ducks are shown to be in cramped and apparently filthy conditions.
Urging consumers to boycott foie gras in restaurants, Winslet described the production of it as being a “terrifying and painful” experience for the ducks and geese.
Source: Vogue UK
Kate has finally gone back to movie sets!
The filming of the mini-series Mildred Pierce started today, April 9, 2010 at 9:30 am, New York time. This mini-series is composed of a four-star cast: Kate Winslet, Evan Rachel Wood, Guy Pearce, Melissa Leo, Brian F. O’Byrne, James LeGros, and also Daniel London, Morgan Turner and Mare Winningham!
Before you discover the first pictures of Kate in the guise of Mildred Pierce, this is the first photo of the movie set:
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