After the Oscars were sealed with "Readers"
For 46-year-old Kate Winslet, looks and figure can be discarded for acting. In the hit American drama "Nightmare of the East Side", although she looks old and bloated, she bursts out of real and powerful power, shaping one of the most classic characters in 2021, making people forget that she was once the beautiful and charming Rose of "Titanic", but the small town policewoman Mel who was tired of life and had become a grandmother in "Nightmare in the East Side".
At the just-concluded 79th Golden Globe Awards, Kate Winslet won Best Actress in a Limited Series/Tv Movie for "East Side Nightmare." Previously, she also won an Emmy Award for Best Actress for this work.
East Side Nightmare is Kate Winslet's first television series in a decade, and she also served as executive producer.
A reporter once asked Kate Winslet what age would he most like to go back to? She said she didn't want to go back to any age in adulthood except for childhood. Because she loves herself at every age, she will not let her age bind her feelings, but will be completely herself. "The best way to face the years is not to run away. Accept the polishing of time, fall in love with their own changes, and the course of life has its own laws. Choose to let time leave you with the healthiest beauty, otherwise, you are truly afraid of age and give in. ”
From the plot to the caravan, being an executive producer has to manage
The story of "East Side Nightmare" takes place in a place called East Side in Pennsylvania, usa, this town looks ordinary, but in fact, the relationship is strange and secret. The successive disappearances and deaths of three young girls have cast a cloud of doubt over the otherwise peaceful town.
Kate Winslet plays the female police detective Mel and the police from the county partnered to solve the case, Mel is busy solving the case, on the other hand, she is tired of coping with her own life, she was once a sports figure in the school, but her teammates blamed Mel for her incompetence as a police officer because of the disappearance of her daughter. Mel's own son committed suicide, and in addition to raising her young grandson, she also had to take care of her daughter who was in college, helping her mother to "love and kill" her again.
Kate Winslet loves the character of Mel because she is an imperfect heroine, she is cute and annoying, she is strong, but vulnerable. Long after the show aired, Winslet still missed Mel, and she confessed that if she would make a second season, she would like to continue to play Mel: "I miss her, really. It's really weird, the character is fantastic, There's an inextricable quality in Mel, she's so brutal but likable, not only smart but real, I really enjoy playing her. ”
As an executive producer, Kate Winslet is not just "nominal", from the plot to the actors, and even the caravan, she will manage. In Winslet's view, the murder investigation in East Side Nightmare is only "part of the narrative," not just a small-town crime drama, but about community, family, personal grief, pity, and forgiveness, and "life goes far beyond crime and unresolved murder." However, the murder story still needs to be taken seriously, and after reading the script of the first two episodes, she believes that the plot is not brain-burning enough and needs to be polished again.
In addition, she makes sure that everyone's crew's motorhome is the same size, "I feel obligated to do that, so that everyone feels important and equal." 」 Because that's the energy of this episode. ”
Winslet said we all developed deep friendships and relationships during the filming process, "It was a wonderful experience for all of us to build this town together and really build these characters emotionally." We've been together for about six weeks, partly because of the pandemic, partly for filming, and we have to all stay healthy. We took turns cooking, but mostly I cooked, and Angary Rice, who plays my daughter in the show, is a nice baker and she and her mom make awesome bread and cakes. ”
I know how many wrinkles there are around my eyes, please put them back
Kate Winslet loves the character of Mel because she herself is a real-life middle-aged woman. "I'm in my forties and I'm more interested in playing those disgraceful roles. I'm not interested in playing roles that look particularly perfect. I don't believe in how perfect the character I play is, I just want to play the real person. I wanted to play human stories and real emotions, and for me that was the biggest attraction of playing Mel. ”
Amid all the pressure and pain, Winslet believes that mel's loss of her son is the one thing that torments her the most. She thought Mel should be a woman who hadn't dyed her hair since her son died, and she didn't look in the mirror either because she didn't have time to look in the mirror and she was busy taking care of everyone else. Mel used busyness to hide the pain in her heart, and she couldn't stop, because then she would think of the pain of losing her son, would be swallowed up, would collapse. In order to play the role well, Winslet also worked with a psychologist and stayed with many people who had lost their children or loved ones to suicide.
Filming of "East Side Nightmare" began in September 2019, was forced to be interrupted in March 2020, continued filming in September of the same year, and was completed in December. During this time, Winslet wants to keep herself in Mel's grief, "to keep this state all the time, to use this trauma to recharge himself." ”
In addition, Winslet also went to the police station in advance to experience and learn the Philadelphia Delaware accent. After doing a lot of preparation for the role, Winslet presents the ordinary policewoman Mel, no one regards her as a star, as Winslet, and many viewers can only use "unbelievable" after discovering that Mel is rose from "Titanic".
Much to be said for, Winslet was indifferent to his image. There's an intimate scene where director Craig Zobe says to Winslet after filming, "I can fix the bulging belly shot for you." Winslet's answer was, "You dare!" This is the true image of a middle-aged woman. She also returned the crew's promotional poster twice, also because she thought the photos were too much, "I told them, I know how many wrinkles I have around my eyes, please put them back." I want my face and body shape to reflect the age, life and experience of the character, and I love such a face and don't need to be covered with a filter. ”
I don't want to waste all my time worrying about how big my ass is
This isn't the first time Winslet has had an opinion that his photographs are too beautiful. There was once a famous magazine that made Winslet's cover photo "kindly" the perfect body. However, this "well-intentioned" move made Winslet unhappy. She said: "This kind of retouching is simply too much, I am not like that, and I don't want to be that kind of person." Later, the magazine issued an apology statement.
Winslet once said in an interview: "I will tell the staff in particular, 'You have removed the wrinkles on my forehead, please change it back?' I'd rather people see this picture and say she looks older. ”
Although Winslet is now confident and strong, her weight has made her bullied in school, and she has been an actor for many years, and she has always been ridiculed.
Winslet, 15, weighs 200 pounds and was nicknamed "blubber" by his classmates because whales have the highest fat of any mammal. "When I was heavy, people told me 'you look so good!' It's just a pity that you have a big problem below the neck', which is a great irony. Winslet, who was hit, also lost weight, eating only apples, raw carrots, black coffee and even diet pills for months.
Winslet said he was fortunate enough to ask himself later, "'What are you doing?'" You're just really hungry. I don't care if it's beautiful or not. I didn't have a perfect figure, no upturned and rounded hips, no pair of plump and towering breasts, no flat belly. Instead, I had large clumps of fat on my hips and thighs. I learned to embrace my flaws, not to apologize for what kind of person I was, I dug into my own depths, I decided to ignore other people's comments about my body, this is who I am! The real me. When delicious food was placed in front of me, with large creamy coffee, golden fried fish, and various desserts in front of me, I ate it with a straight face. ”
Winslet recalls that when she was little, she never heard a woman say she loved her body, "My mom didn't, my sister didn't, and neither did my best friend." So I make sure to convey to my daughter the message of 'I'm proud of my body', a positive image view should be established at an early age, and we live only once. I don't want to waste all my time worrying about how big my ass is. I will live as healthy as possible and enjoy life as much as possible. ”
Winslet also adamantly opposed plastic surgery, "In my twenties, I would have paid more attention to my appearance than I do now, but as I get older, I have more important things than appearance, such as family and children." I will never give in to age. Cosmetic surgery goes against my moral principles and against the natural laws of the course of life, and we have to choose the healthiest beauty that time has left for us... Because we are actors, we are even more reluctant to have a face that never changes. ”
When I was 8 years old, I stared in the bathroom mirror and began to prepare this acceptance speech
The reason he was able to accept his appearance was because Winslet saw himself as an actor, not a star. "I never had the desire to be famous, nor did I have the great ambition to please everyone. I'm just a fat guy. Some people say that female stars can't be fat, then I can only say, I'm not a female star, I'm just an actress. Why should I worry about being fatter than other actresses? I've accomplished more than they have done in movies! This alone was enough for me to be proud for a long time, and it was enough for me to confidently accept my fat and oily hair. ”
Winslet's achievements also give her enough weight to express her views. Winslet was nominated for the Academy Awards and Emmy Awards six times, and eventually won the Academy Award for Best Actress for "The Reader". She was nominated for a second Academy Award at the age of 22, becoming the youngest and two-time finalist in history.
Kate Winslet was born in 1975 into an acting family, her maternal grandparents, parents, and uncles are all professional actors, and due to the influence of the family, Kate has been obsessed with acting since childhood. The pile of beautiful words in Shakespeare's stage plays was the whole of her childhood after-school life.
Winslet starred in the stage play "Virgin Maria" at the age of 5, entered drama school at the age of 11, began filming TV commercials at the age of 13, got his first audition at the age of 16 - Peter Jackson (director of "Lord of the Rings") in "Sin Angel", and at the age of 19 starred in Ang Lee's "Sense and Sensibility" attracted attention, for which won the British Academy Film School Award for Best Supporting Actress, and was nominated for the Oscar for the first time, and then became popular all over the world with "Titanic".
After titanic, Winslet chose some niche films and literary films, and she said in an interview at the time that she did not covet all the fame and fortune of flashy Hollywood, "Britain is my hometown, I will always love her, I will not transform into an American because of a movie." Second, she longs to make a truly independent film, and does not want to indulge in a large-scale film that burns money again, "that is tantamount to suicide."
In 2001, Kate was nominated for the Academy Awards and Golden Globe Awards for Best Supporting Actress for "Hand in Hand". In early 2004, Kate's romantic film "Eternal Sunshine of a Beautiful Mind" was shortlisted for the 100 Best of All Time and was nominated for the Oscar for the fourth time. In 2008, she collaborated with Ralph Fiennes on The Reader and leonardo on Revolutionary Road after a gap of ten years, for which Kate won the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and Actress in a Feature Film. In the same year, she was nominated for six Oscars, and finally won the 81st Oscar for "The Reader". In order to play the role of Hannah in "The Reader", she got up at 3:30 a.m. every day, spent more than 7 hours on makeup, and had to wear a 15-pound coat to look older. During that time, she often observed the old man, the way they stood up from the table, the way they took the cup, and even the speed with which they turned their heads. Winslet, who won the Oscar, was very excited when he received the award: "I was so happy that I almost fainted, and when I was 8 years old, I stared at the bathroom mirror and began to prepare this acceptance speech, at that time, I was still holding a shampoo bottle, and this time it was finally not the shampoo bottle!" 」
Leonardo described Winslet as figuring out the character like a detective investigating a crime scene, carrying with her a variety of "reconnaissance tools", cameras, notepads, tape recorders, scripts, and whatever little things she needed, recording "clues" related to the character at any time. When she starred in "Beauty Garden", she was three months pregnant and actually jumped in ice water, hoeing grass, planting flowers, carrying civil engineering... But she insisted on not using a stand-in, joking that she "didn't want the stand-in to take all the fun scenes away."
The significance that performance has brought to my life is immeasurable
Winslet argues that acting is not a process of searching, it is more like being inspired or stimulated by the unknown and the unexpected. "In fact, for most of the time, I find myself constantly reminding myself to be open-minded, to be in awe of certain special roles, or to face challenges on my own. I want to be honest with my friends who are just starting out in acting, acting is difficult, it's definitely a chore; you have to work hard and practice all the time; you have to allow yourself to make mistakes. If acting is something you are really sure to do in this life, you will stick to it and get what you want, but you usually have to keep yourself busy, not just wait for the phone call that invites you to audition, but also try some things in other fields, because the more you learn, the richer you know, the more confident and layered you are as an actor. ”
Winslet was once asked which of the roles she had played was most like her? Winslet replied, "Every character, every film, every director is completely different, and all of this gives me a completely different experience." Similarly, I take on a lot of challenging, even risky, characters because I don't want the audience to feel aesthetically fatigued with my screen image. I hope to continue my career as an actor. ”
This time, wins the Emmy Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for "East Side Nightmare", Winslet said: "I really love acting, the meaning that performance brings to my life is immeasurable, here I have laughter and tears, and the benefits are quite large." And I think I will love this job more and more in the future. ”
For "East Side Nightmare" to be loved by the audience, Winslet said, "I think when I play Mel, maybe we are changing the way the heroine behaves on the screen." Mel has a lot of shortcomings, because this is the real life, everyone resonates with her, maybe this is related to the outbreak of the epidemic, the change of people's mood, people have more thinking about life, about themselves. Most women in their 40s are not supermen, we need to do our best in the chaos, women have to support each other in this era, I support you, I salute you, I am proud of you. ”
Winslet believes that the entertainment industry needs real-life works like "Nightmare on the East Side," and creators need to be true to themselves, "You have to believe in yourself, you have to work hard." You have to be unwavering in doing what you love to do and believe it's all worth it. Sometimes that's the hardest part." Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Zhang Jia
Source: Beijing Youth Daily