Kate Winslet has finally become that rare thing: the female celebrity we all genuinely get.
Already one thing is clear: 2009 is going to be Kate Winslet year. This month, she has not one but two films out — Revolutionary Road and The Reader — that have already earned her a pair of Golden Globe nominations. But her extraordinary performances (and, in The Reader, she will take your breath away) are only part of the reason Winslet is having her big moment. She has finally become that rare thing: the female celebrity we all genuinely get. It’s partly that, at 33, she is now in her prime; it’s partly about our expectations (we’ve changed, too); and it’s a lot to do with timing. Women-we-all-get don’t come along that often, because they have to tick all the right boxes and chime with the zeitgeist. Now, for the first time since, oooh, Princess Diana in the mid-1990s, perhaps, KW happens to have hit the spot. Here’s why:
Why we love Kate Winslet
New interview + ads
VIDEO LINKS:
• Interviews: Charlie Rose – December 26 – Thanks to Ali!
GALLERY LINKS:
• Revolutionary Road: Ads – Thanks to David!
• The Reader: Ads – Thanks to David!
First candids of 2009!
Kate was seen out in the cold of New York City with hubby Sam to get their kids to school on Monday, January 5.
Out on the promotional trail for her soon-to-be-released movie, Kate Winslet was spotted making a stop at the Late Show with David Letterman on Thursday, January 8.
Here are pics of Kate at the Late Show with David Letterman on Thursday, January 8.
Yesterday morning, Kate Winslet was spotted walking her two kids, 8-year-old Mia and 5-year-old Joe, to school in Chelsea then jumping in a cab.
GALLERY LINKS:
• 2009 Candids: Taking kids to school – January 5
• 2009 Candids: Arriving at Late Show with David Letterman – January 8
• Television > Talk Shows: Late Show with David Letterman – January 8
• 2009 Candids: Walking kids to school – January 9
Just last night she won a Critic’s Choice Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in The Reader, where she played a woman defending herself in a war crime trial.
New photoshoots!
GALLERY LINKS:
• Photoshoots/Outtakes: Set #045
• Photoshoots/Outtakes: Set #046
• Photoshoots/Outtakes: Set #047
• Photoshoots/Outtakes: Assorted
New scans and promo stills!
GALLERY LINKS:
• The Reader: Promotional Stills
• 2008 Magazines: Citizen K (Winter 2008-2009) – Thanks to no-a!
Here Kate talks about Revolutionary Road and The Reader and her hopes for an Oscar in 2009.
In Revolutionary Road she stars opposite Leonardo DiCaprio for the first time since Titanic. Husband Sam Mendes is in the directors seat for this film. She also talks about The Reader, the new movie from director Stephen Daldry.
SOURCE:Â www.Movies.ie
‘I don’t want my looks to be an issue’
Kate Winslet on why she’s finally happy with her figure – and how she’s done it
Kate Winslet wowed everyone with her stunning new figure when she squeezed in to a Herve Leger bandage dress at a recent premiere in New York.
But the star has revealed her fantastic new physique was honed by shunning the gym and giving up her regular swims to do a pilates DVD at home in front of the TV.
‘I just don’t have the time or the inclination to go out and work up a sweat,’ she says. ‘I don’t have a trainer or anyone bossing me about. I prefer to do my own thing, in private, with some hand weights. I’ve stopped all diet and exercise fads. There’s just no point’.
