Kate Winslet is Authentic, Jake Gyllenhaal is Cheating
Good morning: In today's edition of The Industry, we look at:
Kate Winslet's Shutterbug, Netflix: Master of the Universe, Biel & Banks sisters, Glen Powell's Fortune and a rat.
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KATE WINSLET IS AUTHENTIC
Kate Winslet could have cruised on easy roles after Titanic.
The film ran fifteen straight weeks as box office #1, a feat not accomplished since E.T. was released 15 years earlier.
She could have taken any big-budget role, yet her next project was the virtually unseen Hideous Kinky (1998), a low-budget indie about an English woman who, dissatisfied with her life, flees to Morocco with her young children. Trailer here.
She reflected on that period in her life:
“I didn't want to fake it, and I didn't want to feel under pressure. And also, I didn't want to fail. I wanted to be in a position where I could always say I'm an actress, to be 45 years old, as I am today… not to have experienced burnout and not to have given bad performances.”
Prioritizing complex characters over stardom, Winslet's filmography boasts challenging roles, including her Academy Award-winning performance in The Reader.
Her latest role is Lee Miller in the film Lee, a true story about a New York fashion model turned war photographer who risked her life to document the injustices of World War 2. Miller’s photos of the Nazi camps being liberated are among the most historic.
The research Winslet did for Lee was, in her opinion, the most important preparation for any role she has ever played:
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