Kate WINSLET and the teenage actor she makes love to in her latest movie spent hours choreographing every move.
The actress told me that the woman she plays, a former Nazi prison camp guard, ‘looks like a carthorse, or an ox or something’, adding: ‘She looks very strapping; there’s a physical, almost masculine look about her.’
Yet, the minute her character disrobes on screen, her body looks sensational: curvy yet sleek.
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Kate the Fearless
Spend time around Kate Winslet, and the subject of food is bound to come up sooner or later. You may not have known, for instance, that the last job she had before breaking into the movies was behind the counter in a delicatessen. “I made sandwiches. I cut up cheese. I ground coffee,†she says. “I loved it!â€
To this day, Winslet likes to unwind in the kitchen. “I do endless chopping and preparing things,†she tells me. “I really find that relaxing. I do a lot of thinking as I am chopping and cooking.†And then there’s the revelation she had a few weekends ago—where else but in a restaurant? Winslet and her husband, director Sam Mendes, had gone out for lunch with their young daughter and son—a relatively rare occasion, the actress insists. “We like them to see those things as a treat, as they should be—and still are to me, actually.†She smiles. “We were having lunch, and I was having a glass of wine and eating bread and putting butter on the bread, and I turned to Sam and said, ‘I am just so happy!’â€
GALLERY LINKS:
• Revolutionary Road: Promotional Stills
• The Reader: Promotional Stills
• The Reader: Posters
British actress Kate Winslet has placed herself in a dilemma after two of her major movies were slotted for release at the same time.
The movies could get Winslet, who has been nominated for an Academy Award five times, another nomination for Best Actress, which is impossible as the Academy does not allow for two nominations.
According to Fox news, the only solution to the problem would be that Winslet could be touted for Best Actress in Revolutionary Road, directed by husband Sam Mendes, and for Best Supporting Actress in The Reader, from director Stephen Daldry.
Two different studios are handling the movies, Paramount for Revolutionary Road, and Weinstein Company for The Reader.
Source: Newstrack India
Over the course of her relatively brief but illustrious career, Kate Winslet has amassed five Academy Award nominations — supporting for Sense and Sensibility (1995), lead for Titanic (1997), supporting for Iris (2001), lead for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), and lead for Little Children (2006) — but, believe it or not, she has never gone home with an Oscar!
This year, Kate the Great has two opportunities to correct the record: She stars in The Reader and Revolutionary Road. Based on her track record, chances are she’ll be nominated for at least one performance, and possibly both (one in lead, one in supporting). If this proves to be the case, and she again goes home empty-handed, Winslet will either tie or surpass the late Deborah Kerr (six) as the losing-est actress in Oscars history.
This background makes it all the more fun to read Krista Smith’s profile of Winslet in the December edition of Vanity Fair. During the interview that shaped the piece, Smith apparently asked Winslet whether all of the attention surrounding her big year has made her particularly hungry for an Oscar this time around. Winslet’s response? Priceless.
“Do I want it? You bet your [expletive] [expletive] I do! I think that people assume that I don’t care or don’t want it or don’t need it or something. It’s hard to be there five times, and I’m only human, you know?”
Nice to see a little fire in the belly! Now will someone get this woman an Oscar?!
Source: Los Angeles Times
Kate Winslet has shot down reports she is set to portray British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood on the big screen.
Reports surfaced at the weekend that Winslet, 32, was being lined up for the role.
And a spokesperson for Westwood was quoted by a British newspaper as saying, “The script is going well and Kate will play Vivienne. It has been a long time in the planning but we’re very excited that it’s happening.”
But the Titanic actress’ rep says the reports are “not at all true.”
A Vivienne Westwood spokesman added, “The script has not even been finished yet, let alone casting. Kate Winslet was just one of many names that were mentioned as possibles to play Vivienne, but this whole thing has been blown completely out of proportion.”
Source: Showbiz Spy
A little update on that Kate Winslet/Vivienne Westwood rumour for you – apparently it is true. The actress has been confirmed by Westwood’s label to play the designer in an upcoming biopic.
“The script is going well and Kate will play Vivienne,” a spokesperson said. “It has been a long time in the planning but we’re very excited that it’s happening.”
Once a script has been finalised, Winslet is expected to spend time with Dame Westwood, in order to get the most out of her performance. The film is said to follow the designer’s success from her punk days to now.
Source: Catwalk Queen
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