There's also the amazing fact that Winslet was on set at all that day, seeing as she once told an interviewer of Cameron, "you'd have to pay me a lot of money to work with Jim again" — which is not how you go about making friends in Hollywood though perhaps it is how you negotiate a good contract some 24 years later.
But the part I'm most hung up on is that Winslet, by her own admission, could have died. Should have, even! Seven minutes and 14 seconds! A few seconds more, and that really might have been it; a tragic freediving disaster, and no more Kate. There would, of course, have been shocked and saddened headlines, moving obits, and a prime spot in the following year's Oscars In Memoriam.
Yet I also wonder: Would we have recognized then, in , that we'd lost not just an actress far too young, but also one of our very best? The thing you have to understand about Kate Winslet is that it wouldn't have necessarily taken something as dramatic and extreme as an on-set accident to have stopped her short of where she is today. It's easy, in the midst of excitement over the ending of HBO's Mare of Easttown , to believe that the teenage talent from Titanic would have always ended up with a long, impressive career.
But Winslet's Hollywood survival story is about how she endured nearly three decades in a suffocating industry that has diminished or outright extinguished other young actresses on similar trajectories with unfair tabloid stories and malicious gossip — not to mention the limited, unambitious roles that are available to women past a certain age.
No, this Winslet was never inevitable. Only recently has this new actress come to the surface. Audiences, and especially audiences not watching Mare of Easttown , might need some catching up.
But readers didn't exactly bemoan her exclusion when they took issue with the list; fans missed Kristen Stewart, Meryl Streep, Laura Dern, Cate Blanchett, Natalie Portman, and Regina King, but Winslet's snub seemingly ruffled no feathers. Part of that might be because she hasn't starred in any recent hits; while Winslet enjoyed a high point of critically-acclaimed films between about and during which she won her only Academy Award, for 's The Reader , she hasn't been nominated for an Oscar since her darkhorse supporting actress nod for Steve Jobs in — "far, far from her best work," in The Atlantic 's estimation at the time.
Of her 13 live-action roles since , only three are "certified fresh" on Rotten Tomatoes. But if you take a step back, there's more to what's going on here than Kate Winslet making bad movies. Because even though Winslet does make bad movies sometimes, her work during the s also looks a lot like a middle-aged actress doing the best with the roles that were available to her. As Liv Tyler once complained to More , "when you're in your teens or 20s, there is an abundance of ingenue parts which are exciting to play.
But at [my age], you're usually the wife or the girlfriend — a sort of second-class citizen. Hollywood, though, didn't seem quite to know what to do with her. It was the tail-end of the era of heroin chic, and open season on ridiculing Winslet's body — something even her director, Cameron, participated in, nicknaming her "Kate Weighs-a-Lot. Winslet, for her part, didn't seem to know quite what to do with Hollywood, either. Understandably, she detoured away from roles that would've kept her in the heat of the spotlight; in the aftermath of Titanic 's success, she gravitated toward smaller projects, like Hideous Kinky , the Jane Campion film Holy Smoke!
I had to. If I hadn't, I would have burned out by the age of 25," she later explained to The Guardian in a profile that nevertheless found cause to observe that she is "not beautiful. Winslet's "wife or the girlfriend" years began right on Hollywood's schedule, as she turned They brought with them, though, critical success, including a Best Actress nomination for playing the not-hot mom in the movie Little Children, and Winslet's only win to date, as the older Nazi seductress in The Reader , in Winslet was also doing more than just seeking out awards bait; she began to actively wrestle with the rote, "middle-aged" roles available to her.
Arguably one of her best performances came in the HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce in , when her raw, empathetic portrayal of a divorced mother on the brink breathed previously unexplored complexity into the story's stereotypes about repressed housewives.
Winslet, during this period, also started picking up roles as the career woman. Still, Winslet put her own spin on the character, reinventing it for modern-day audiences.
The result was a nuanced and heartbreaking turn that earned her the Primetime Emmy Award for 'Leading Actress in a Miniseries. One of the most divisive parts of Titanic is its excessive use of melodrama. The film indeed uses a plethora of stereotypes and narrative tropes to tell its story. What prevents it from going into overkill is the earnest commitment of its two leading stars. Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio share genuine, electric chemistry that makes their dramatic romance believable.
They elevate the material and deliver a heartbreaking and compelling romance that will surely stand the test of time as one of the greatest in modern cinema. Eleven years would pass before Winslet and Dicaprio shared the screen again, but it was worth the wait. The actors once again shared enviable and explosive chemistry , but they put it to a different use in Sam Mendes' visceral tale of broken dreams.
Revolutionary Road tells the story of the crumbling marriage between Frank and April Wheeler. Uncomfortable with their lives yet still trying to save their family, April and Frank are troubled and complex characters. Winslet and DiCaprio go all in, delivering some of their most emotionally aggressive work.
Revolutionary Road isn't a pleasant viewing experience, but it's worth it to see both actors chewing the scenery around them. Billion-dollar movies are common these days. Back in , though, they were as rare a sight as the pot at the end of the rainbow. It's impossible to undermine Titanic 's gargantuan success. The film was a massive worldwide hit, a cinematic phenomenon unlike any other in modern film history. Winslet and DiCaprio were at the center of it all.
It must have been hard to deal with all the attention that came with being the stars of the greatest cinematic achievement of the last fifty years or so, yet both actors did it with class to spare. After Titanic , Winslet chose to focus on smaller, character-driven films. She often played roles in period pieces. Kate Winslet plays Nancy Cowan, a mom who becomes increasingly childish in a comedy that has no manners. Interestingly, Kate Winslet and her co-star, Jodie Foster, competed against one another for the Golden Globe that year.
Even though she lost to Jennifer Connelly for A Beautiful Mind , Winslet still delivered an awards-worthy performance as the famous British novelist. A unique fact about this performance is that this was the second time that Winslet earned a nomination for playing the younger version of the main character because the first time was for playing the younger version of Rose in Titanic.
Kate Winslet earned her first Golden Globe nomination for playing the hopelessly romantic Marianne Dashwood. The film also exhibits the social constraints placed upon women in 19th century England. The film explores the nature of relationships and the unfathomable qualities of memory. Winslet herself told Empire Magazine that this was her favorite film role, and that performance truly does glister like eternal sunshine.
Playing real people is always a challenge, but Kate Winslet received her fourth Golden Globe award for her supporting role as Joanna Hoffman in Steve Jobs. The real Hoffman inspired Winslet, and allowed the actress to support the ambitions of Steve Jobs, played by Michael Fassbender. Hoffman supported Jobs much in the same way that Winslet supports Fassbender, which reveals how she fittingly received a Golden Globe for a supporting role.
She plays April Wheeler, a wife who yearns to move to Paris to escape her vapid lifestyle in suburban Connecticut. The intense arguments she has with her on-screen husband Frank, whom DiCaprio plays, adds drama to a strained relationship that is the opposite of the romance in Titanic.
The rawness that Winslet delivers helped her win the Golden Globe, and made her the third actress to receive Golden Globes for both supporting and leading roles. Sigourney Weaver and Joan Plowright did that in and , respectively. Interestingly, Stephen Daldry directed both of these films, and David Hare wrote the adapted screenplays. Winslet won her first Academy Award for playing a German woman with a hidden past. We and our partners use cookies to better understand your needs, improve performance and provide you with personalised content and advertisements.
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