Coming from the theater
This large Englishwoman with a wide mouth and a direct look is unlikely to remember if someone asks: "Name ten movie stars of a female." In the top ten there will be other names. But the flight over the waves on the nose of the Titanic is the same classic of the movie as Vivien Lee in the background of the burning Atlanta. But Kate - not a star, she's just an actress, strongly resisting the image of the star. English filmmaking is much poorer and much less commercial than Hollywood, and English actors (with rare exceptions like Hopkins, who publicly announced his hatred of Shakespeare and British arrogance) are terribly proud of this. Even living on Beverly Hills, do not get tired to swear allegiance to the foggy Albion. In the case of Kate's oaths it's easy to believe: she really keeps apart. Well, which American woman would not wear a wetsuit under her dress, like all the actors did on the Titanic shootings, and even demanded cold water to get used to the image? Only a crazy English bitch, as she was immediately called by dear Leo. Perhaps he was more severely affected by the cold, because Kate's fatty layer is much more detailed. But he does not have a period, and Kate had to spend seven critical days at a critical temperature. About the month, by the way, she told me. Not that we would not have guessed that the actresses also have this, but few will publicly discuss the delicate topic. Kate - no problem. She is generally straightforward, unsophisticated. Can a thin diplomat have a 42-foot leg? When Leo found this, he suggested that the partner exchange shoes - especially since Winslet prefers just men, such as "martens". "Heels, narrow noses - coquetry and hypocrisy. I love boots blunt-nosed and on a thick sole - they make you feel that you are standing firmly on the ground. "
Despite the lush forms, Kate is in the soul of a little girl. For many years she smoked her own folded cigarettes and could not disentangle myself from the strong words in the interview. Initially, the journalists and gave the texts without a denomination: "Damn those fucking British scribbler!" Then Kate began to ask the reporters to throw swear words, and then, they say, my mother and father are upset. Mom and Dad love Kate. Her childhood was not something that would be successful - no, just happy. She was born right in the theater: my grandmother and grandfather staged a theatrical house for 60 people in a family mansion. In Reading, in the county of Berkshire, their family was well known. Mom and Dad are actors, an uncle is a decorator in the West End. Lived amicably and stupidly, quarreled and reconciled, raising their hands and quoting Shakespeare. Provincial stage can not feed, the father took the role on local TV as the heavenly manna, money was always lacking. The TV was bought when the eldest daughter was 11 years old, before the children were entertained by staging home plays on their own plays ("One-act - there was not enough patience," laughs Kate). There is no need to think about the professional future of the younger generation in such a family: everything is clear. Two of Kate's sisters became actresses, but far less successful, on a local scale. Somehow she admitted that she felt uncomfortable and even guilty before her sisters, but then realized that her success was "converted": she bought her parents a house, her sister helped open a theater for disabled children, so the question with the inevitable envy and family competition like resolved.
A grumpy donut
Kate always knew how to achieve her goals. If it's what you're after, it's like a tank, nobody stops it. Cameron, she just blew phone calls, demanding to give a role in the "Titanic" it was her, and not the first candidate Gwyneth Paltrow. Once I called, when the director was at the wheel, did not want to talk, and the "crazy English bitch" screamed, feeling that the role was leaving: "You'll be a fool if you do not choose me!" Strangely enough, it worked. Unlike many children, who are dragged along by ambitious mothers, Kate always knew that she wants to become an actress, in addition, she knew that you need to start earning money as early as possible. At 12, she starred in advertising sweet cereal for breakfast - here as it is impossible, by the way, had a poured figure, round cheeks and a radiance of health, emanating from her. But in the theatrical school, she was teased with a "donut", and Kate, sullenly lowering her head, silently, endured teasers or sobbed - and what can you do, really fat. A lot of women and men who succeeded in childhood, there is such a moment of deep and hopeless humiliation - lack of money, or parental scandals, or school grievances. Push off and surf on the surface - this was the way with Kate. A couple more commercials, passages in the series, and at 15 years old she got the first permanent job - in the children's science fiction series Air Force "The Dark Time of the Year", immediately moved to a separate apartment in London, and in between shooting worked in diner waitress. On set, I met a young actor Stephen Tredre - he was 27, and this shows a lot. Kate was at 15, after growing up. They lived together for four years, alas, far from idyllic, as Stephen quickly began to be jealous of his girlfriend for her success.
Cate actresses were doing better and better. She got the part from Peter Jackson in the psychological drama "Celestial Creatures" - about two girls who were in love with each other to the point that they decided to kill the mother of one of them who forbade them to meet. Hearing on the phone that she won the casting, Kate sobbed with happiness and dropped the sandwich: just at that moment she put the sausage in a bun at her workplace. She did not have to go back to the diner any more. Feeling that he is all in, Kate was so laid out during the filming that the director seriously worried about her mental health. She did not have enough acting skills and could not detach herself from her character, but the result shook on the screen (the London Society of Film Critics presented the girl with the prize as the best actress of the year). Impressive Emma Thompson recommended the young talent of Eng Lee, who cast for the film adaptation of "Mind and Feelings" (the role of Marianne brought Keith BAFTA and Oscar nomination). But before the shooting began, Miss Winslet broke up with her lover. And it was a very dramatic story - Kate is lucky on such.
Mind and feelings
The first two years of their relationship, Stephen, a benevolent and nice guy, pressed the little Kate ever harder for every nonsense: for being late for dinner, that she had not sewn a button to his shirt that she had made up her lipstick with too bright lipstick. She was in love - and forgave, already guessing that the matter is not in lipstick and not at dinner, but in his modest career achievements. When they almost decided to break up, Steve said that doctors diagnosed him with a terrible diagnosis - bone cancer. Of course, Kate stayed to support her man after the operation and during chemotherapy. Stephen Tredr died a few days before the US premiere of the Titanic, so Kate did not come to the celebration - she mourned a friend. She was tormented by a sense of guilt for parting with Stephen as soon as the disease entered the stage of remission. The ailment made Steve more tolerant and fair when it came to Kate and her career. He easily let go of her to shoot, and then completely let go - with parting words: "Play for them both." "I do not know why I left," the actress still reproaches herself. "Perhaps, unconsciously I felt that in some mysterious way my successes take his life from him." He invested so much energy in me. Or maybe I just did not understand that I was leaving him in trouble. I did not believe for a moment that he could die. But it happened. Since then I know: life is like a commodity without a warranty period. It is necessary to use it while it works. "
Two nominations for Oscar (for "Mind and Feelings" and for "Titanic"), world fame, respect for critics, the nickname "Keti in a corset" - for being shot in costume films; a place on the list of the 50 most beautiful people on the planet according to People magazine, friendship with DiCaprio and Emma Thompson, two million dollars, nervous exhaustion after filming, the severity of the loss and guilt over Stephen. So the register of her life achievements looked to the beginning of 1998. For the vast majority of 23-year-old girls, such a list would be prohibitive: here the road is either in the armchair of a psychoanalyst, or at a sale at the highest prices. Julia Roberts, for example, chose the second path, squeezed out 100% of the success of "Pretty Woman" and now receives at least 20 million for the brand horse smile. Kate preferred her own way - the third.
"I wanted to prove to others that I can succeed without mind-blowing costumes and special effects. And in general, I realized that after the Titanic I could change, so I decided to remind myself why I became an actress - because I really love it, "she explains her decision to refuse roles in two costume melodramas:" Shakespeare in Love "( instead of her, ironically, played Gwyneth Paltrow) and "Anna and the King" (Jodie Foster). Kate went to Africa to appear in the melodrama "Express in Marrakech", based on the novel by Esther Freud - about a young hippy woman who, in the 1960s, escapes from her husband, travels to Africa with two young daughters. The film (which turned out to be very, very average) was of special importance to her, because once Stephen gave her that novel. But during the filming Kate met with another ideal - an assistant director Jim Tripleton. And once again I was in the grip of my ears.
Someone bigger
When she left to shoot the next low-budget (and absolutely disastrous) project to Australia, the lovers were already full of water, exchanged faxes with prints of their palms and harassed Kate's fees for endless conversations on the cell phone. Once Jim sent her an image of two palms with painted engagement rings. It's amazing how easy it is to buy a principled, intelligent and hard-working young lady with a small dose of sentiment. In the interview, she happily informed the world that she had met her eternal and true love. Perhaps Jim attracted her with his absolute anti-stardom and custom, but Kate, as always, had enough. It was already an obvious misalignment, which British journalists did not fail to notice: "Kate, what kind of guy is with you?"; "Kate, who in your family wears pants? "After caustic questions, she burst out with that remark about" fucking scribblers. " Meanwhile, the reporters were absolutely right: the marriage lasted less than two years, little Mia was just 10 months old. Jim, unable to bear the role of a nanny and housewife in the demanded wife, he himself filed for divorce. Leaving, he said: "You are big and strong, like a tank. Try not to crush the next man. Find yourself someone bigger, or something ... "And Kate found. Sam Mendes, who just received an Oscar for "American Beauty," offered her a role in his production of "Uncle Vanya". The proposal she rejected - did not fit into the schedule, but she liked Sam. They were countrymen, they were born in the same hospital! Gradually, friendship grew into a novel. "Well, here it is, finally, a man bigger," Katie rejoiced. "Successful, talented, satisfied with his ambitions." In addition, 10 years older. Quickly having given birth to the second child, John's son, Kate took into account the mistakes of the previous marriage and completely relaxed. She refused offers for a year, chirping that the profession of an actress is less important to her than the profession of wife and mother. By the way, I hardly ever lied, at least at that moment. Among the actresses of this level, perhaps, there is not one that has decided on two children before the age of 30. On the contrary, the appearance of offspring is moved further and further, when artificial insemination is no longer necessary. But the "English rose" is a keen supporter of naturalness. In terms of creativity, the tandem with Mendes was very right for Winslet. When the children grew a little, she started filming in Sam's film The Road of Change. After a long pause, it was a real breakthrough, followed by the American-German "Reader" - and the long-awaited, after three nominations, "Oscar". 2008 was the year of triumph, but in relations with her husband, apparently, something broke. It can be assumed that for Winslet, she did not get a role in the "Road of Change" - as Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Barton ended with a divorce film about a divorcing couple "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" "The Road of Change" is a frighteningly naturalistic story about people who have not coped with the difficulties of marriage, and with their own lives. And Kate - the girl is impressionable to ridiculous. And then, what kind of husband would like to scream into a megaphone, addressing his wife and Leonardo DiCaprio ":" Now put your hands on her ass! Right on your ass, you hear? "
At the beginning of this year, a couple's PR man announced that they had parted "in a friendly, without mutual claims", and in July the marriage was officially terminated. The paparazzi have already tracked that Kate and Sam are carefully avoiding each other: when the father visits his son, the mother appears at home only after he leaves. Apparently, the separation was not so "friendly". To unwind, the former Mrs. Mendes rested in Mexico with her children and girlfriend Emma Thompson, and on her return to New York (where she bought Mendes) bought a novel. Her new choice is the handsome 34-year-old model, Louis Dowler, about whom tabloids say he's atypical: he has a sense of humor.
Bets on weight
With men, Kate, most likely, does not get on because of her impulsiveness and passion: you will not have time to look back, squeezes to a loss of consciousness and then disdainfully throws out - fu, that it's dead here lying around! Straightness and immediacy are good to a certain point. She understands this and tries to struggle with herself, and the hottest point of her personal war is her own weight. Kate's body is an eternal battlefield. While she was wearing her baby Mia, a bookmaker in London was betting on how much a young mother would pull by the end of her pregnancy. Some predicted that a centner, but Kate stopped at 83. She also weighed as much as a teenager when she was selling sweet cotton on the street-she ate more than she sold. "I still uphold the rights of a fat teenager to live in our world, embraced by an absurd glamor mania," the Titanic star admitted. During her career, she grew thin and fattened so many times that it became a talk of the town. Fatting, defended: "A woman should have breasts and thighs. I'm not any Hollywood anorexic! And I'm not going to do anything with my body, even if my breast after the birth of children looks like the ears of a spaniel! "People should know that not everyone is ready to sacrifice themselves for glossy standards!" Another time, Winslet sued the Daily Mail who dared to doubt the veracity of her words: "I do not have a personal trainer, I do sports not more often than a couple of times a week, and even then I'm not too zealous." She not only defends her right to eat a couple of chocolate cakes (but not the entire box), she is disgusted by the general insanity on fitness. "In Los Angeles, people have a problem - they have nothing to do. In London or New York, you go for a walk, drink coffee with a girlfriend, in a park with children or in a museum. And in Los Angeles, you have one lesson - appearance. When the younger son wakes me up at 5:30 in the morning, I see people on the street engaged in jogging. There is something strange about running at such a time. I look at people in Hollywood, and I always want to say to them: "Listen, it's all right, you can eat something already." A few years ago, as tabloids gossiped, Kate sat down on a fashionable individual diet "on the face" (recommendations are based on an analysis of facial features, color and skin condition) and lost weight to 60 kilograms. You would see her at a gala press dinner in Paris in the summer of 2007, when Lancome introduced the new perfume that advertised Winslet. When Kate, with a high american haircut, in a black dress with bare shoulders, appeared on the steps of the Rodin House Museum, the cynical ladies from glamorous magazines rose in a single rush, because it was breathtaking - so she was good. In a deep voice with a slight hoarse voice she said a few welcoming words - a true actress, she even worried beautifully. I gave autographs. She was accompanied by Mendes, and the rest of the dinner was spent at the table, quietly conversing with the hosts of the evening.
Well, yes, marriage somehow gave a break. But, judging by the photos on the Internet, Katie does not throw on the cakes with grief. It looks great, and moreover - began to wear mini-skirts, which has never happened to her before. She remembered that in her youth she was engaged in dancing and that her legs were praised. "When, if not now?" - this is her mood. Greed for life is the best guarantee that Katie will ask all the heat. A couple more marriages, another couple of Oscars, maybe a couple of children ... Gossips and envious persons who consider her "the most intolerable actress" will show the middle finger, as in the Titanic, when she and Leo had time to jump up at the last moment in the elevator. In 1912, a girl from high society hardly knew about the existence of such gestures - maybe this is Winslet herself joking, it will become. "You will not wait - I will not drown for anything!".