US EditionKate Winslet shares how she coped with unwanted attention
Kate Winslet shared how she used small comforts to cope with fame and highlighted ongoing sexism in film, noting she was told to 'settle for the fat girl parts' as a young actor.
- On Friday, December 26, Kate Winslet told BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs she spoke about managing intense public attention as her profile rose.
- After Titanic's release, Winslet said her life was deeply disrupted, describing media intrusions including phone tapping and trash searches, and said `I wasn't ready for that world`.
- Listing coping tools, Winslet mentioned food, conversation, coffee and Radiohead, crediting these small comforts and physical relief for easing life’s pressures.
- Winslet highlighted sexist remarks she endured, including a drama teacher's blunt message that she must accept lesser roles due to her body, and argued there is "so much we still have to unlearn" about how people speak to women in film.
- Winslet will make her directorial debut with Goodbye June, which begins streaming on Netflix Wednesday, December 24, and she said the cast had to become a family including Helen Mirren, Timothy Spall and Johnny Flynn.
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Kate Winslet Recalls Being Told to 'Settle for the Fat Girl Parts'
Kate Winslet won’t forget what some adults had to say about her body at a young age. “I was a little bit stocky. When I did start taking [acting] much more seriously and got a child agent, I really remember vividly a drama teacher,” Winslet, 50, shared in a sneak peek of the Friday, December 26 episode of BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, per multiple outlets. “She said to me, ‘Well, darling, you’ll have a career if you’re ready to settle for t…
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Photo Credit: Dia Dipasupil/WireImage via Getty Images Kate Winslet reveals how her life changed after the mammoth success of the 1997 film Titanic. For those unversed, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet headlined James Cameron’s epic romantic film, Titanic. The pair played star-crossed lovers, Jack and Rose, who belong to different social classes and fall in love during the ship’s ill-fated maiden voyage. Kate Winslet talks about post-Titanic f…
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