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| Romance & Cigarettes DVD Release |
Two years after it's European release the United States will now have a chance at owning a slightly more fan-worthy version of the film. Look for it in stores on February 12, 2008. Extras will include a commentary with Director John Turturro and Amedeo Turturro, a Making a Homemade Musical featurette, a film introduction by John Turturro, and deleted scenes.
Further Details: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced Romance & Cigarettes which stars James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, and Steve Buscemi. This John Turturro directed film will be available to own from the 12th February, and should retail at $24.96.
The film itself will be presented in 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen, along with an English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround track.
Extras will include a commentary with Director John Turturro and Amedeo Turturro, a Making a Homemade Musical featurette, a film introduction by John Turturro, and deleted scenes with Introductions by John Turturro.
Source: DVD Active
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| A Red Carpet at Last |
The National Board of Review Awards drew an award-hungry crowd.
Based on the crowd at Tuesday night's National Board of Review awards, it seems Hollywood can be divided into two camps: those who love award ceremonies and those who hate them. George Clooney (Best Actor for Michael Clayton) falls into the former category — no surprise — as does Michael Douglas (Career Achievement Award), Josh Brolin (Best Ensemble Cast, No Country for Old Men) and Phil Donahue (Best Documentary, Body of War). Denzel Washington (who accepted The NBR Bulgari Award for NBR Freedom of Expression with the incredibly poised Great Debaters star Jurnee Smollett) looked like he was happy enough to be there, but his ensemble (a sloppy, untucked button-down shirt) seemed to say otherwise. And Kate Winslet, who presented Joel and Ethan Coen with the prize for Best Film, gleefully introduced the brothers, but then again, she is an actress. Before the ceremony, held at Cipriani 42nd Street, she said to a pal approaching her table, "I don't get up because then people start taking pictures of me."
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| Kate Takes Over For Nicole |
Nicole Kidman's loss is Kate Winslet's gain. On Monday, Page Six was first to report that Kidman had to drop out of producer Scott Rudin's movie The Reader due to her pregnancy. Now, insiders tell us Winslet has agreed to star opposite Ralph Fiennes in the picture in which "a young man's decades-long obsession with an older woman in Germany runs headlong into a war crimes trial, where he learns an awful truth," as its publicity describes it. One source said, "The role was originally written for Kate, but because it was supposed to start filming in the fall, when she was working on Revolutionary Road, she had to drop out. Nicole was then hired, but her schedule kept getting pushed back and now she's pregnant, so the role went back to Kate." Reps for Winslet and Rudin, whose No Country For Old Men and There Will Be Blood are both nominated for Golden Globes, couldn't be reached for comment.
Source: NY Post
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| Winslet Replaces Kidman In Erotic Sex Drama |
It's always weird when a high-profile star drops out of a movie, only to be replaced by another one. We spend so much time convincing ourselves that these stars matter because of their personalities, and that we care about each of them individually, but then we're reminded that, yeah, they're pretty much interchangeable pretty faces. It happened when Brad Pitt and Edward Norton both dropped out of State of Play (replaced by Russell Crowe and Ben Affleck, respectively), and now it's happened again with Kate Winslet and Nicole Kidman.
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| Kate Winslet Taking Over Nicole Kidman's Role |
Kate Winslet is stepping in to take over the role vacated by Nicole Kidman in The Reader, PEOPLE has exclusively learned.
Sources confirm that, in fact, Winslet was originally offered the role but couldn't commit due to schedule conflicts. Kidman pulled out of the film after announcing her pregnancy.
"Kate was offered it first before Nicole but couldn't do it but the dates clashed with commitments to Revolutionary Road," says an insider. "So the dates changed, Nicole then got pregnant and now it has come back to Kate."
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| Winslet to replace pregnant Kidman in movie: author |
British actress Kate Winslet will replace the pregnant Nicole Kidman in the upcoming romantic drama The Reader, the author of the best-selling book on which the film is based told a German newspaper.
Bernhard Schlink told the Berliner Morgenpost in an article to be published Wednesday that Winslet would take on the starring role of the mysterious older woman who seduces a young man in postwar Germany.
"Kate Winslet fits the role wonderfully," he said.
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| Face to face with Kate Winslet |
Syida Lizta Amirul Ihsan gets a whiff as the actress talks about being herself and being the new face of Lancôme’s Trèsor fragrance.
Actress Kate Winslet is the new face for Lancôme's fragrance, Trèsor. She speaks about the fragrance and working with Peter Lindbergh for the print ad and TV commercial.
Q: How did you come to be involved with Lancôme?
A: They approached me. It immediately appealed to me because I've never done anything like this before. And it felt like such an honor to step into the shoes of Isabella Rossellini who was Trèsor's previous "face". They wanted something beautiful, romantic and enigmatic for the ad. At the same time, they wanted to convey the message about being comfortable being yourself. I am of the same mind too. So it turned out well.
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| BAFTA names Winslet 'Artist of the Year' |
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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| Remembering Robert Garlock, Beloved Press Agent to Uma, Hugh, Clive |
Widely loved publicist Robert Garlock died Sunday, Sept. 2, at St. Vincent’s Hospital from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. He was 41. Mr. Garlock, whose roster of celebrity clients included actors Hilary Swank, Clive Owen, Hugh Grant and Kate Winslet, had been at PMK/HBH for 14 years, before becoming a partner at the P.R. firm 42 West. Mr. Garlock grew up in Canal Fulton, Ohio, then moved to New York to attend N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of Arts. He never left.
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| John Turturro To Self-Distribute Romance & Cigarettes |
Actor-director John Turturro will distribute his movie Romance & Cigarettes with his own money, after a studio takeover left it on the scrap-head.
The musical was made in 2004 with an ensemble cast including James Gandolfini, Kate Winslet, Susan Sarandon, Steve Buscemi and Christopher Walken.
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| "Everybody's Fine", New Role |
By Martin A. Grove
[...] Also on Nunnari's current development slate is Everybody's Fine, a remake of the 1990 Italian drama Stanno Tutti Bene that was directed by Giuseppe Tornatore and starred Marcello Mastroianni and won the Ecumenical Jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival as well as being a Palme d'Or nominee. "Everybody's Fine is a fantastic project. Kirk Jones (Waking Ned Devine) is attached to direct. He wrote the script. It's one of my dearest pieces of material. (Jones) is an unbelievable filmmaker. He doesn't make (as many) movies as the audience would prefer. He's very precise about what he wants to do. He turns down many, many things.
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| Pedro praises Brit talent |
Kate Winslet could be set to star in an adaptation of Ian McEwan's latest novel - if Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar has anything to do with it.
Pedro, who directed Penélope Cruz in BAFTA-nominated Volver, praised British writing and acting talent and said he'd love to work with the Atonement author, reports The Daily Telegraph.
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| DreamWorks film shooting in Trumbull |
The Pinewood Lake Association raises the curtain on its artistic roots this summer when the DreamWorks movie, Revolutionary Road, will film scenes here.
The movie, which reunites Titanic stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, will use settings in and near the lake clubhouse next month, according to Harvey Mamrus, president of the recreational community's Board of Governors.
Mamrus said production officials finished arrangements Monday for the filming, expected to take place over three days the second week in July.
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| Is Kate Winslet one of the Watchmen? |
Here’s some salt. Now turn it upside down, shake, and splash it all over this one.
Kate Winslet may be playing Silk Spectre in the Watchmen movie, says Film Ick.
The site was provided with a list of potentials for the upcoming graphic novel cum film – directed by Zack Snyder (300) – with Winslet leading a cast that would also include Jason Patric (as Dr. Manhattan; have heard his name mentioned for the part before); Thomas Jane (as The Comedian) and Knocked Up co-star Jonah Hill (as Seymour).
Salty enough, yet?
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| BBC2 announces star-studded autumn schedule |
Anthony Hopkins and Kate Winslet will be interviewed as part of a special season celebrating the UK’s film industry on BBC2.
British Film Forever will also include interviews with Michael Caine, Ewan McGregor and Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha. Four Weddings And A Funeral writer Richard Curtis will also be featured in the season, which forms part of BBC 2's autumn schedule.
Other highlights in the schedule, unveiled today, include the drama Capturing Mary with Maggie Smith and David Walliams, written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff.
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| Kate Winslet: The New Face Of Lancôme |
British actress Kate Winslet has been named the new celebrity spokesperson for cosmetics giants Lancôme as part of an Internet launch in Paris, France.
Winslet greeted a crowd of fans in Paris yesterday, after she was announced as the new face of the new "Trésor fragrance".
The Titanic actress was chosen as the successor to actress Isabella Rossellini, who appeared in ads for the company last year.
Source: ShowbizSpy
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| Winslet hails fragrance deal for hiring a 'real woman' |
Kate Winslet insists she was chosen as the spokesperson for cosmetic giant Lancôme because of her reputation as a "real woman".
The Titanic star was named as the face of the Trésor fragrance in Paris on Monday (11Jun07), taking over from fellow actress Isabella Rossellini, who previously held the role.
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| Kate Winslet Becomes New Face Of Lancôme's Trèsor Fragrance |
Academy and Emmy Award winning actress Kate Winslet will replace Isabella Rossellini as spokesperson for Lancôme's Trèsor fragrance.
Lancôme's International General Manager, Odile Roujol, told RTE Entertainment, "More than an outstanding actress, Kate Winslet has the amazing ability to be celebrated as both an exceptional and an everyday woman."
"A passionate person, who lives and feels life to the fullest, she is sure to act as the epitome of Trèsor, our mythical fragrance."
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| Kate Winslet donates libel cash to eating disorder charity |
An eating disorder charity has spoken of its delight after receiving a cash donation from actress Kate Winslet.
The Hollywood star has given about £3,000 of her libel damages to Norfolk-based 'beat'.
Miss Winslet had taken High Court action against Grazia magazine over claims she had visited a diet doctor. She was awarded an undisclosed sum in damages in March.
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| The Shakespeare Collection Comes to DVD August 14 |
Warner Bros. is getting literary in August!
Warner Home Video will debut a four title collection of William Shakespeare's most famous screen adaptations on August 14. Leading the group of the Bard's masterworks will be the long-awaited DVD debut of Kenneth's Branagh's Hamlet 2-Disc Special Edition, the unforgettable and highly acclaimed full text version of Shakespeare's powerful tragedy, featuring a magnificent all-star cast. The collection also includes three other famous Shakespeare screen translations, all making their highly-demanded premieres on DVD — Max Reinhardt's legendary production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, which featured virtually the entire Warner Bros. stable of stars circa 1935, Sir Laurence Olivier's Othello, and the lavish M-G-M version of Romeo And Juliet starring Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer. Among the galaxy of famous stars in these films are Maggie Smith, James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland, Mickey Rooney, Kate Winslet, Julie Christie, Jack Lemmon, Robin Williams and Billy Crystal.
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| Warner Bros. Greenlights Sequel to 'Deep Sea 3D' |
To be honest, I have yet to be truly wowed by an IMAX experience. Lately the trend seems to be to format high profile films, and I am all for that, but made-for-IMAX content has always seemed a little lacking. The one genre that still seems to work well on the "really big screen", though, is the nature documentary. The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Warner Bros. has joined with longtime partner IMAX to produce a sequel to the 2006 film Deep Sea 3D, titled Deep Sea-quel. This will be the second 3D feature for the filmmaking trio of Howard Hall, Toni Myers and IMAX co-founder Graeme Ferguson, and the film will capture the "life aquatic" of New Guinea and Southern Australia. The film is set for release in 2009, but there has been no mention of whether Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet will be returning to provide narration this time around.
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| Kathy Bates joins "Titanic" castmates in drama |
Kathy Bates has signed on to re-team with her Titanic co-stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in the 1950s drama Revolutionary Road.
The film revolves around a suburban Connecticut couple whose relationship deteriorates into an endless cycle of squabbling, jealousy and recriminations. Winslet's husband, Sam Mendes, will direct the DreamWorks project from an adaptation of Richard Yates' acclaimed 1961 novel.
Bates will play Mrs. Givings, who sells the couple their home and introduces them to the town. David Harbour will play Shep Campbell, a neighbor. Michael Shannon will play the son of Bates' character. And Zoe Kazan will play Maureen, secretary of DiCaprio's character, with whom she embarks on an affair.
Shooting begins outside New York in June.
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| Titanic's last missing link opens |
A restored boat which is the last floating link to the ill-fated Titanic has opened to the public in Belfast.
Docked at Queen's Quay, the SS Nomadic has artifacts and replicas of items from the Titanic, as well as clothing worn by Kate Winslet in the 1997 movie.
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| DiCaprio heading for Brodway? |
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio is considering swapping Hollywood for Broadway later this year (07), to make his New York stage debut in drama The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel.
According to FoxNews columnist Roger Friedman, DiCaprio's agents are currently negotiating the deal, that would see the actor recreate a role played on Broadway by Al Pacino 30 years ago.
Pavlo Hummel is an American soldier stationed in Vietnam who has an African-American alter ego called Ardell. If he accepts, the 32-year-old will have to head to New York in the autumn, straight from the set of Revolutionary Road, to be directed by Sam Mendes and co-starring Mendes' wife Kate Winslet.
Source: PR-inside.com
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| Mendes reunites with Spacey for stage project |
Director Sam Mendes is to reunite with his American Beauty star Kevin Spacey in a three year theater project. Spacey, Artistic Director of London's Old Vic Theater, has invited Mendes to present a double-bill of classic plays up until 2010 in the British capital and the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York.
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| Kate and Leo together again |
A decade after Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio starred as doomed young lovers in the Oscar-winning blockbuster Titanic, they are reuniting to make a new film together, this time about the slow disintegration of a marriage.
I can reveal that, in a landmark piece of casting, the two actors will play the troubled married couple in a big screen version of Richard Yates's wrenching novel Revolutionary Road, which Sam Mendes, Kate's Oscar-winning husband, will direct on America's East Coast this summer.
Titanic remains the Number One top money-making film of all time, with $1.8 billion in world-wide ticket sales.
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| DiCaprio, Winslet to star in 'Road' |
Duo together again for Revolutionary
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet are teaming for the first time since Titanic to star in DreamWorks' Revolutionary Road.
Sam Mendes will direct the pic, based on the acclaimed 1961 novel by Richard Yates about post-war disillusionment.
John N. Hart, Scott Rudin, Bobby Cohen and Mendes, who's married to Winslet, will produce in association with BBC Films.
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| Jolie voted 'H'wood's Yummiest Mummy' |
Actress Angelina Jolie has been voted Hollywood's yummiest mummy', in a poll conducted by movie website pearlanddean.com.
The mum of four children, beat competition from actress Kate Winslet and Walk The Line star Reese Witherspoon, who were placed at the second and third positions respectively. Australian star Cate Blanchett at fourth spot and actress Catherine Zeta-Jones at the fifth place completed the top five, in the poll that had more than 3,000 respondents.
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| Grazia says sorry over Kate Winslet eating claims |
Grazia has apologised to actress Kate Winslet, after she threatened to sue the Emap weekly over claims she visited a diet doctor.
At last month's BAFTAs, Winslet told BBC Radio One's Newsbeat that the story was "categorically untrue" and that the piece suggested she — having been publicly vocal on the pressures to diet excessively — was being hypocritical by seeking treatment for weight loss.
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| Kate Winslet Teams Up With Mendes For Circus Film |
Actress Kate Winslet is teaming up with her Oscar-winning director husband Sam Mendes to work on a new movie.
Winslet, who has been married to the American Beauty filmmaker for three years, has been interested in playing the role of 1920s circus tiger tamer Mabel Stark since 2003.
And now Mendes' company, Neal Street Productions, has bought the rights to adapt a fictionalized life of Stark by author Robert Hough.
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| Kate Winslet Sues Magazine Over Diet Claims |
Kate Winslet is hauling a British magazine into court over claims she visited a U.S. 'diet doctor' to slim down. The curvy star — an outspoken opponent of Hollywood's growing trend for extreme thinness — is furious Grazia magazine ran a story claiming she was taking desperate measures to shed weight by visiting a Chinese Healing Institute in Santa Monica, California.
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| De Niro, Cruz, Nicholson, Downey, Affleck, Winslet, And Whitaker Together |
Robert De Niro, Penélope Cruz, Jack Nicholson, Robert Downey Jr. and Ben Affleck are among the stars teaming up for a new Vanity Fair vintage Hollywood movie-cum-magazine photo spread.
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| Helen and Kate in Running as Oscar Nods Announced |
The final countdown to the Oscars has begun with British talent leading the field in the best actress category. As widely predicted, The Queen star Helen Mirren is one of the nominees, as are Judi Dench for Notes On A Scandal and Kate Winslet for Little Children.
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| Kate to present Scots film prize |
Actress Kate Winslet will head an expert panel judging new films by young Scottish directors.
Kate, above, Oscar nominated for her role in Titanic will join legendary director Alan Parker to name a winner in the First Light Movies competition.
Glasgow teenagers are in the running for the top prize with Happy, a film which charts the consequences for a young woman who takes part in happy slapping' attacks.
The £10,000 short film has been nominated in the Best Drama and Best Film categories.
Source: EveningTimes Online
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| British talent gears up for Golden Globes |
Some of Britain's top actresses are gearing up for one of the biggest awards ceremonies of the year the Golden Globes.
Brits Helen Mirren, Judi Dench and Kate Winslet have all been nominated for best actress but they face stiff competition from Penélope Cruz and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
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| Tea time with Winslet, Blunt and 'Babel' |
The event: The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)/Los Angeles' traditional tea party held late-afternoon Sunday at the Four Seasons Hotel.
The players: Kate Winslet (Little Children), Penélope Cruz (Volver), Toni Collette (Little Miss Sunshine), Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada).
Call it the awards season's splash of British pomp. But there was nothing stuffy about the Hollywood pageantry.
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| Stars come out for tea |
Kate Winslet, Penélope Cruz and Dame Helen Mirren were just some of the celebs who turned out in the rather cold Los Angeles weather to trumpet all things British at the BAFTA/LA Tea Party.
The annual bash saw the stars enjoying fish and chips as well as champagne and, of course, a brew — which helped to heat up those who ventured out on a Sunday afternoon to the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills.
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| BAFTA Nominations |
Do we have a new star on our hands?
Brit actress Emily Blunt has gone down a storm at the BAFTA 2007 nominations.
The Devil Wears Prada star is up for best supporting actress, as well as the Orange rising star prize.
But Emily isn't the only Brit gal to get a nod — Judi Dench, Helen Mirren and Kate Winslet are up against each other in the best actress category.
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| Daniel Craig leads BAFTA nominations |
The Queen and Casino Royale lead the field for this year's BAFTAs.
Daniel Craig has received a best actor nomination for his performance as James Bond.
It is his first major awards nod as the 007 spy character. He faces competition from Leonardo DiCaprio for The Departed, Richard Griffiths for The History Boys, Forest Whitaker for The Last King Of Scotland and veteran star Peter O'Toole for Venus.
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| Kate's Brit Gong Battle |
Kate Winslet will be fighting it out with her fellow Brits at this year's Screen Actors Guild Awards.
It'll come as no surprise that her competition includes Helen Mirren and Judi Dench.
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| Kate Winslet Says She Wants More Kids |
Kate Winslet is already mom to Mia, 6, and Joe, 3, but she'd like more children, she says in a new interview.
"I'm hoping to have more kids," Winslet, 31, who stars in the upcoming romantic comedy The Holiday, tells InStyle in its December issue. "I don't whether one or two. Oh, God, I would love to have more."
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| Winslet's Body Inspired New Jaguar Model |
Actress Kate Winslet says her body was the inspiration for Scottish engineer Ian Callum's design for the newest Jaguar model.
The "Titanic" star said during a recent TV appearance that Callum had used her body as a guide when creating the image for the new Jaguar XK coupe, the Times of London reported.
The 31-year-old actress said the designer saw her as "the perfect woman" -- and while he used her as his inspiration, she admits she isn't happy with the end results.
"The headlights are too small. They will have to go," Winslet said. "And it needs a bar under the dashboard with pink and blue neon lights, umbrellas and pineapples."
Callum confirmed Winslet's story, but offered no response to her critique of his work.
"Kate Winslet is my ideal woman," he told the Times. "She is naturally a very shapely woman, very British with an underlying integrity and ability. Like a car, she has got substance; she is not just a pretty face.
"So I designed the new XK body with her in mind," he added.
Source: Playfuls.com
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