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| Capability Kate: How Ms Winslet combines motherhood and movie making |
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.
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| 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."
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| Welt magazine interview - June 25, 2007 |
Thanks loads to Ani for sending us the translation for this interview!
Which woman doesn't have a problem with her figure?
The 5 Oscar nominations reveal that Kate Winslet is, without any doubt, an extraordinary actress. The conversation about children, diets and wrong role-models shows: First of all she's an extraordinary woman.
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| Interview: Kate Winslet and Patrick Wilson |
In Little Children, director Todd Field's second feature (he garnered Oscar nominations with his debut In The Bedroom), the leads Kate Winslet (Sarah) and Patrick Wilson (Brad) grapple with loneliness and loss of identity as they wrestle with being parents and unfulfilled adults.
Into the mix enters a third story realm occupied by Larry (a disgraced cop played by Noah Emmerich) and Ronnie (a convicted sex offender played by Jackie Earle Haley); they both intersect with Sarah and Brad as the film arrives at both a disturbing and open-ended conclusion.
Through Little Children, both Winslet and Wilson have had the opportunity to play around with their conventional images associated with them as hot young actors. Both have tackled roles in other films that defy the stereotypes. As a result, the film has achieved considerable support and has been selected as one of the 28 features accepted to the 44th Annual New York Film Festival held at Lincoln Center.
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| L'interview de Kate Winslet en anglais et en intégrale |
She could have been stuck in the Titanic forever, but Kate Winslet managed to escape and hence the rut that so many actresses of that One Big Role have so often found themselves in. Speaking in a posh English accent (and even a Brooklyn one), the British actress and three-time Oscar nominee tells us more about her latest flick, Little Children, where she stars as Sarah Pierce, a bored housewife who has a steamy affair...
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| A home girl at heart |
Kate Winslet makes a point of forgoing the usual pampering in the make-up chair for our interview in the Beverly Hills Four Seasons. She is dressed in a simple black cardigan, with wisps of her champagne-blonde hair escaping her ponytail. She is Ordinary Kate, down-to-earth, and accessible.
Yet she is one of our most celebrated actresses, last week nominated for the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in Little Children. Even though this is her fifth nomination, she still isn't used to the thrill of hearing her name read out.
"It is incredible to get an Academy nomination", she says. "It's one of the best things that has happened to me. You never as an actor think that's going to happen. It genuinely means a lot to me."
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| Kate's reactions to the Oscar nomination |
"I've been laughing, crying, hollering, whooping and leaping around", Little Children star Kate Winslet said.
"My husband, Sam [Mendes], called me. He's in London, I'm in New York. I had just dropped my daughter at school and I was taking my son. There was some serious fist pumping, pounding the ceiling of the car."
"This isn't supposed to happen to a girl who grew up in a tiny town. I was told the only way I'd have a career as an actress would be if I could settle for playing fat girls."
And what did Winslet have to say about co-star Jackie Earle Haley's nod?
"It's not just a whole new career, it's a whole new life. It's gonna change him and his self esteem."
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| Little Children - Kate Winslet interview |
Interview by Rob Carnevale
Kate Winslet talks about the challenges of making Little Children, how becoming a mother changed her life and why she never reads her own reviews...
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| "It's just wonderful" |
Kate Winslet is no stranger to best actress nominations, with more than a dozen under her rather attractive belt.
But despite being a veteran when it comes to awards ceremonies, she is still thrilled at a fourth Golden Globe nomination.
"I can't tell you how happy I feel about this, it's just so, so great", she gushes over the nod for her new film Little Children.
"It's just wonderful. It still feels like the first time it has happened. I was genuinely surprised; you can never count your chickens."
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| Change good as a holiday |
At a time when most of her contemporary Hollywood stars would be eager to capitalize on the exposure of film successes, Kate Winslet has gone to ground.
After doing four films back to back, the British actor is a stay-at-home mum. Her most pressing concern is cooking a hearty soup for her brood, which includes award-winning director husband Sam Mendes, daughter Mia, 6, and son Joe, 3.
But this year-long break from shooting films is anything but a holiday for the New York-based multiple Oscar nominee.
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| Kate Winslet vanishes into her roles |
Sarah Pierce, the central figure in Little Children is a mess. It goes beyond her uncombed hair, baggy overalls and rat's-nest purse. She's a smart woman who has somehow ended up in a dumb life that doesn't feel like it belongs to her. In this she seems very different from the famously grounded Kate Winslet, who plays her in the Todd Field film of Tom Perrotta's story of suburbia and its discontents.
Ms. Winslet, whose finely wrought performance has already won her a Golden Globe nomination and could well land her on this year’s Oscar ballot, deliberately rejected a dumb life after Titanic made her a worldwide celebrity at 22. She refused to become a Hollywood cliché, embarking instead on a decade of playing chewy, interesting parts in a series of films ranging from offbeat indies like Hideous Kinky and Holy Smoke to prestige projects like Iris and Quills She was the flaky, bewitching Clementine in Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind and the teary, overwrought Ophelia in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet. She has mastered the role of glamorous yet gracious luminary, dolling up for the red carpet and dishing on the talk shows with what appears to be genuine relish.
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| A chat with actress Kate Winslet about her role in 'Little Children' |
SARAH IS definitely the hardest part I've ever had to play!" says the beautiful Kate Winslet.
I met this glamorous creature on 14th Street in the Balducci grocery that now inhabits a former bank. She arrived with a stroller attached, as if part of her outfit; struggled upstairs with it. While we looked down on people buying cheese and fresh veggies, we talked about her latest movie.
In Little Children, directed by Todd Fields, Kate plays a disaffected adulterous suburban wife who doesn't much relate to her little girl or her porn-addicted husband and falls for a neighbor who is a good-looking stay-at-home dad.
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