Kate Winslet on fame & playing Lee Miller in her latest movie. #HarpersBazaarUK
Kate Winslet ! She has always had an unusual perspective on her fame. She talks to Harpers Bazaar UK about playing Lee Miller in her latest movie… Love the shoot as well !
‘Winslet’s new biopic Lee takes us somewhere else again: she plays Lee Miller, the fashion model turned artistic photographer who became a war correspondent during World War II, documenting the Normandy invasion and the horrors of the concentration camps.
The film, which Winslet produced and helped to fund, is clearly a passion project. “Did it move you? Did it make you cry?” she asks eagerly. I say, truthfully, that I think her performance is extraordinarily powerful, and underlines Miller’s courage and determination. “Lee’s phenomenal stoicism and mission to reveal the truth because so much was hidden – of all the characters I’ve ever played, I was genuinely inspired by her and in a lasting way,” says Winslet. “Post-#MeToo, we have a much greater perspective on what women in the public eye had to put up with. My hope is that, at the very least, the film will show people who Lee really was and what she went through, and hopefully redefine how a younger generation understands her, so that she isn’t continually viewed through the male gaze.”
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