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’
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
Vogue France September interview
All over the world famous at only 21 thanks to Titanic with Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet took a good turn in her career between indie movies and blockbusters. New face of Lancôme, leading lady in the new movie by Sam Mendes that we can’t wait to see, nothing on earth seems to make Kate lose her mind. Interview with a very simple star.
By Nelly Kaprielian
Photographer: Mark Segal
Direction: Anastasia Barbiere
Queen of the World
Her spirits sank after her Titanic success, but now a soaring Kate Winslet is
Queen of the World
For millions of people, Kate Winslet will forever be the woman standing on the bow of the Titanic with Leonardo DiCaprio, her arms spread in exultation. But even as she was starring in one of the big screen’s greatest love stories — and Titanic was becoming the most popular movie in history — Winslet was suffering through a personal romantic tragedy that would change her life.
“Looking back, I see what I was dealing with when Titanic came out”, Winslet says. “I had a lot of pain, and I was confused about who I was.”
1998+1999 interviews/clips
I’ve added a total of 8 videos from 1998 and 1999. And also, a really special video of Kate’s early years!
VIDEO LINKS:
• Miscellaneous: Kate’s Early Years
• Movie Specials: Titanic – A&E Special – 1998
• Movie Specials: Titanic – ET Special – 1998
• Other Interviews: ET – 1998
• Other Interviews: Good Morning America – 1998
• News Shows: NBC Time & Again – 1998
• News Shows: Sky News – 1998
• Interviews: The Priory – November 9, 1999
Just a note about the Sky News video: it contains rare footage from the set of Hideous Kinky with a small interview with Kate and also Kate, ex-hubby Jim Threapleton and her parents at the Heathrow airport heading to the Oscars. Very nice!
Next videos update will be interviews from 2004 and 2006!
Contest answers and winner!
Congratulations to Nickeline, the winner of this contest! She’ll be receiving:
• Saturday magazine (April 3, 2004 issue)
• Finding Neverland R1 DVD (widescreen)
Click the link below to know the answers to the contest questions.
Continue reading Contest answers and winner!
Contest answers!
Today I was to give the answers to the contest questions and announce the winner. But there was no winner! :P
I think I was too hard on the questions as I mentioned on the forums, so I’m going to give you the answers and create another contest with new questions, that I’ll post later on. :)
