Kate Winslet will not forget some of what adults said about her body when she was young. “I was a little bit stocky. All through life, really,” the 50-year-old said in a teaser for the Friday, December 26 episode of BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, via multiple outlets. When I began to take on [acting] much more seriously, and I’d gotten myself a child agent, “I do vividly remember that drama teacher. “She’s said to me, ‘Schneider, honey, you’ll have a career if you’re willing to get the fat girl parts.’
Having scored parts in Titanic, Revolutionary Road, The Reader, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and many more films, the Academy Award winner has a message for that drama teacher. “Look at me now,” she said. “It’s just disgusting, the things that people say to children.”
Kate Winslet said she was dieting “on and off” when she was 15, and for the first three years of her teenage life–up to 19–she did not stick to a single diet, so much that “eventually I was barely eating.”
“It was really unhealthy,” she said. “It’s the only bad thing I’ve ever really done in my life because, you know, long-term not eating properly or just eating and panicking about what you’d eaten because of phobias is a terrible way to live. “Or waking up in the morning and the first thing I’d think of would be, ‘Oh God, do I look fatter, do I look fatter?’ That went on for a while.”
After all these years, most beautiful and famous pop culture Kate Winslet can even remember the words of a few classmates who teased her about her looks.
“I was teased a lot by kids at primary school,” she said. “They would call me blubber. I wasn’t even overweight. And they used to lock me in the art cupboard, and they would be like ‘Blubber’s blubbing in the art cupboard’ sort of thing.”
Kate Winslet is comfortable with who she is in body and spirit right now, yet may be nudging us toward an ongoing discussion about how we talk to women.
The film’s leading lady, who learned to direct from her deep involvement with David O. Russell in “American Hustle” and the forthcoming drama “Serena,” said she heard things while working on those movies in Hollywood that she wasn’t sure would be said to a man in her position.
“They’ll even say, ‘Don’t forget to be confident in your choices. “And I’d like to be kind of, you know, ‘Don’t talk to me about confidence,’ because if that’s one thing I haven’t ever lacked, actually it is precisely in that,” she said. “That person wouldn’t say that to a man.”
The former is scheduled to be her first directing role in the upcoming film, Goodbye June. Starting Wednesday, Dec. 24, on Netflix Streaming, the film follows a group of siblings — broken fragments all — who are hurled together under sudden and harrowing circumstances.
“I know it’s kind of sickly, but, honestly, we had to become a family for this to feel as real as possible and be relatable as possible,” Kate Winslet told ScreenRant in an interview published Sunday, December 21, about her cast that includes Helen Mirren, Timothy Spall, and Johnny Flynn. “You can’t come in and just do the job and leave again; it becomes something else. In this film, we were fortunate that it actually happened.”
Who Is Kate Winslet?
Kate Winslet is an English actress known worldwide for her emotionally charged, critically acclaimed roles in film and television. Early life: Born in Reading, Berkshire, on 5 October 1975, she became an international sensation with her performance as Rose in Titanic (1997) and has continued to shape the industry, balancing big studio movies and daring indies. Winslet has received accolades throughout her career, including the Academy Award (eight-time nominee) for The Reader (2008), multiple Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Grammy Award. She is part of a rare group of entertainers who have been awarded an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony (EGOT). As an outspoken proponent of body positivity and realistic Hollywood depictions, she remains one of the most respected and influential actresses of her time.
