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2010 Mar 29

Kate Winslet is inspired by Jodie Foster

Kate and Jodie The Oscar-winning actress was deeply affected by Jodie’s 1988 movie The Accused, in which she portrays a woman who is raped.

Jodie won a best actress Oscar for her portrayal of Sarah Tobias, and Kate says the film was what made her want to become an actress.

The Accused just completely shattered me,” she explained. “I remember watching that film and thinking, ‘Now I understand what acting is.’ I realized that acting does not really exist because you don’t act. What you do is just be. And I feel like Jodie taught me that through her work.”

Kate and Jodie first met at the 1996 Golden Globe Awards, when Kate introduced herself to Jodie. Since then, they have always made time for each other at such ceremonies, and have become friends.

Jodie respects Kate greatly, admitting she thinks she thoroughly deserved her 2008 Oscar for The Reader. “Since we first met we’ve had a couple of minutes backstage at events where we’re all dressed up and trying to get our girdles in line,” Jodie told the British edition of InStyle magazine. “But I have to say, Kate’s performance in The Reader really touched me. There was so much beauty to the character, but she also had a coarseness. As a director, I love seeing somebody on screen where I feel like I’m behind her eyes and that’s how I felt watching it.”

Source: Musicrooms.net

2010 Mar 23

Kate Winslet: “I’ve had my heart broken”

She’s currently dealing with the somber fact that her marriage has fallen apart, and Kate Winslet fittingly spoke with press prior to the divorce announcement about dealing with heartbreak.

“I’m no stranger to heartbreak or rejection,” she told OK! magazine. “I’ve always been quite emotional, but when something like that happens, you have to find a way to move on.”

Splitting from Sam Mendes, her husband of seven years, Miss Winslet continued, “I went through that as a teenager. I was always falling for the wrong guy, or I was the girl who never got the guy.”

Meanwhile, insiders tell that Kate and Sam used to fight about their career paths, with a source dishing, “Sam told friends Kate would talk about the film the moment they woke up, and it was overbearing. They went stir-crazy and argued more than ever. Kate told Sam, ‘Your career is not more important than mine.'”

Source: GossipCenter.com

2010 Mar 19

Two new pics of Kate in Mexico

Added to more pics of Kate relaxing with a cigarette on the beach in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico:

GALLERY LINKS:
• Candids: On vacation in Mexico – March 14

2010 Mar 18

Sandra Bullock and Kate Winslet: Victims of Oscar curse?

Just days after last year’s Oscar winner Kate Winslet announced her split with hubby Sam Mendes comes news that the marriage of the newest champ, Sandra Bullock, may be on the rocks. In Touch Weekly reports that Bullock’s hubby, Jesse James, had an affair on the sly while Bullock was filming The Blind Side.

Now Oscarologists wonder: Is there really a kiss of death curse associated with winning best actress?

Over the past 12 years, eight of the best-actress champs busted up with their lovers after winning: Kate Winslet (won for 2008), Reese Witherspoon (2005), Hilary Swank (1999, 2005), Charlize Theron (2003), Halle Berry (2001), Julia Roberts (2000), Gwyneth Paltrow (1998), Helen Hunt (1997). Five of the splits occurred less than a year after their Oscar triumphs (Winslet from hubby Mendes, Witherspoon from hubby Ryan Phillippe, Swank from hubby Chad Lowe, Paltrow from boyfriend Ben Affleck, Roberts from boyfriend Benjamin Bratt). Berry’s break-up with Eric Benet occurred 18 months after winning; Hunt split with Hank Azaria less than two years later.

It’s ironic, looking back, at how effusively the stars gushed at the Oscar podium while thanking their men on the eve of their relationship’s end.

Continue reading Sandra Bullock and Kate Winslet: Victims of Oscar curse?

2010 Mar 18

Sam Mendes denies cheating on Kate Winslet

Rumors were flying that Sam Mendes was hooking up with actress Rebecca Hall behind wife Kate Winslet’s back, but the director is quick to deny it.

Even though Sam was seen with Rebecca in London and New York, his rep shut the rumors down saying:

“Utter nonsense. Untrue and ridiculous.”

Hall and Mendes met in 2006 on the set of Starter for 10 which Sam produced and have been working together on productions for his Bridge Project theater company.

As for Kate, she’s still in Mexico with the kids now taking a much-needed break!

Source: PerezHilton

2010 Mar 18

Kate Winslet to move back to the U.K.

Kate Winslet is reportedly packing up and moving back to the U.K. She’s lived in New York for the last seven years, but her split from husband Sam Mendes has made her want to return to England.

According to the Daily Mail, Kate is in “turmoil” over the divorce. A source close to the actress said, “Kate is in meltdown mode and doesn’t know quite what to do.”

Apparently Kate wants to be near her parents and her close friend Emma Thompson, who both live across the pond. “Kate feels she needs a support system, but she is torn because doesn’t want to disrupt her kids and is able to be very low key in New York,” continued the source.

The latest on why Sam and Kate decided to split is that he told her he didn’t think he could be with one woman for the rest of his life. A close friend of Kate’s told the Mail, “Sam had been really withdrawn and had shut himself away from her. They then had this big talk and he told her ‘people can’t be inspired by just one relationship. For me, it’s never going to be about one relationship… life is a series of relationships.’

Kate told him ‘For me it is, that’s what I want’, but Sam replied ‘Well, that’s not what I want’ and they both knew the marriage could not go on, it was hopeless. Kate did not want to break up, she had been trying her best to keep things together for months, but in the end it was just too much.”

It seems like men in the public eye lately don’t realize how lucky they are to be dating smart, beautiful women! Sam Mendes, Jesse James, and Tiger Woods should be grateful for what they had!

Source: Hollyscoop

2010 Mar 18

Kate Winslet reportedly moving back to the UK

Following the shock news of her split from husband Sam Mendes, reports are circulating that Kate Winslet may move back to the UK.

“The people she’s close to in New York are mums in schools but she thinks that will all change and her real friends — Emma Thompson, her sister Anna and her parents — are all over here,” a source tells the Daily Mail.

“Kate feels she needs a support system, but she is torn because doesn’t want to disrupt her kids and is able to be very low key in New York.” The Oscar-winner has lived in the Big Apple with her two children and husband Sam for seven years.

Meanwhile, as reports suggest Kate had become “frustrated” about the relationship between her husband and actress Rebecca Hall, a source close to Sam insists there was nothing but friendship between them.

“Sam and Rebecca are good friends, of course they are, they have spent the better part of a year working together on the Bridge Project. But to insinuate that there is anything further in the friendship is taking it too far.”

Source: Yahoo! News UK