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2008 Dec 18

“Revolutionary Road” Premiere pics and videos


GALLERY LINKS:
• Movie Premieres and Screenings: Revolutionary Road Premiere

VIDEO LINKS:
• Revolutionary Road: ET Premiere Interview

2008 Dec 18

Kate joins Stephen Daldry and Marion Cotillard

GALLERY LINKS:
• Movie Premieres and Screenings: The Reader Private Screening

2008 Dec 17

5 Questions With: Kate Winslet

Kate Winslet is one of Oscar’s most nominated actresses … who’s never won. As it stands, the British beauty’s scored five noms, for Best Actress and Best Supporting, but has yet to be called to the podium.

Maybe this is the year her luck will change — she has not one but two award-caliber performances coming up, in Revolutionary Road, directed by her husband, Sam Mendes, and reuniting her with her Titanic leading man Leonardo DiCaprio, and in the Holocaust drama The Reader, directed by Oscar nominee Stephen Daldry and co-starring Ralph Fiennes and German actor David Kross as his younger incarnation.

In the latter, based on a semiautobiographical best-seller, she’s Hanna Schmitz, a former concentration camp guard who takes up with a high schooler to form a bond that turns out to be life-changing for both of them. Moviefone talked with Winslet about how she prepped her co-star for sex scenes, what she thinks of her Nazi character … and that ever-elusive Oscar.

1. There’s a lot of nudity in this film; you’re known for being comfortable with nudity in your movies. How do you actually prepare to do a scene like that?

Honestly, you exfoliate your ass; you starve yourself; you work out like a demon … Obviously, none of that’s true [laughs]. How do you prepare? You don’t really, you know, you don’t really prepare. How can you? I don’t know even what that means. For someone like [my character] Hanna, it was very important to me that she looked real, that she looked absolutely real. And so in fact, quite the opposite; I sort of unprepared, you know, I didn’t go working out like a lunatic or anything like that.

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2008 Dec 12

“The Reader” Q&A and Screening in NYC

GALLERY LINKS:
• Press Conference and Photocalls: The Reader Q&A and Screening – December 3

2008 Dec 12

Winslet nominated for Golden Globes

Frost/Nixon and The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button led the nominees as the contenders for the Golden Globes were announced.

Both films were nominated for five awards, including best drama, for which they will be up against British director Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire, The Reader and Revolutionary Road.

Briton Kate Winslet took two nominations, including best actress for Revolutionary Road and best supporting actress for The Reader. Meanwhile, fellow British actress Kristin Scott Thomas was nominated in the best dramatic actress category for her role in I’ve Loved You So Long.

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2008 Dec 08

Leaving “The Reader” press conference in NYC

GALLERY LINKS:
• 2008 Candids: Leaving “The Reader” press conference – December 4

2008 Dec 06

Kate Winslet Talks About Life, Love and Leo

It’s the reunion we’ve all been waiting for: Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio together again.

“You know we’re twelve years older than we were back then.” Kate tells momlogic, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at her. Even a dozen years after she starred in Titanic, Kate still looks just as she did when she played Leo’s tragic lover on screen — plus or minus a few laugh lines, of course.

But even after all these years, that infamous chemistry with Leo is still there. This time the Oscar-nominated duo are sharing the big screen in their new film, Revolutionary Road. The film is a haunting look at the life of a 1950s suburban couple. And while Kate first fell in love with the book and relished her role as tortured soul April Wheeler, she tells momlogic that it was the opportunity to work with Leo once again that really made this film a true labor of love. “You know as actors I think we’ve both watched each other grow and change on screen. As friends we’ve gotten closer and closer together. The truth is that we’ve grown up. We’re older; we’re wiser you know hopefully we’re better actors. And I can say that he’s nicer than he was before. He’s funnier than he was before. He’s only changed for the better.”

And so has Kate — with motherhood and family infamously being a top priority in her busy life. In fact, shooting Revolutionary Road was a real family affair. Kate’s husband, Sam Mendes directed the film (yes, even the love scenes with Leo) and Kate’s kids, Mia and Joe, come along as well.

But while other Hollywood moms turn film sets into virtual day care centers, Kate confesses to momlogic that she takes a slightly different approach. “We were able to shoot the movie during the children’s summer vacation from school. We shot the movie up in Darien, Conn., rented a house out there and the children were with us, every day. They went to a local day camp and they did visit the set, but I’m not one of those people who like to bring the children to set every single day. You know, because I can’t concentrate on being a mom — when I’m playing April Wheeler, you can’t do all those things. I can’t hold those two things in my head. I’m not that much of a multi-tasker.”

So, will Kate and Leo reignite their infamous on-screen chemistry? Find out when Revolutionary Road opens on December 26th.

Source: momlogic