Author: LeLe
Editor-in-Charge: Bree V
In 2022, Kate Winslet is 47 years old, 26 years after she starred in Rose, the heroine of Titanic.
Few people could refuse Kate's beauty as a young woman, and she had a face with an oil-inspired texture, plump as a pearl.
It can be said that she represents the entire imagination of a generation of young people about "slightly fat beauty".
But in the end, time flies, two rounds of reincarnation pass in a hurry, collagen is sucked away, and the world is lamenting that the beauty is not there - only she herself, she does not care about this.
In last year's hit TV series "East Side Nightmare", the internationally renowned goddess played a middle-aged police detective without idol baggage, she was untrimmed, her face was tired, and she was a completely frustrated middle-aged woman, which was difficult to think of the graceful and elegant Rose.
But it is also because of the convincing interpretation in this drama that the 46-year-old Kate once again stood on the podium of the Emmy Award for Best Actress.
On the podium, she wore a black dress, smiled brightly, and the first sentence of her thank-you speech was:
"In an era like this, we women should unite and support each other."
It is said that after the filming of the show, Kate once fired twice. Once because the director wanted to remove the small belly in her passion scene during the editing process, and once because the poster of the play fixed the wrinkles on her face and brightened her skin tone.
Kate rejected these "beautifications", telling the person in charge to keep the small belly exposed in the passion scene and asking not to remove any wrinkles on her face.
She said: "Mare is a sound but flawed woman, her face and body are a complete reflection of her age, her life status, what kind of person she is. ”
Probably this is the real posture that the film queen should have, as long as the real restoration of the character, then the appearance of the bright and beautiful is irrelevant.
It is precisely because of the profound understanding and restoration of the role that this "slightly fat goddess" has won the internationally recognized film and television awards over and over again - two Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, two Emmy Awards, she is almost a legend among Hollywood actresses.
It's hard to imagine that Kate, who has a grand slam after film, was actually not optimistic in terms of acting at first - because she is a fat girl.
If measured by mainstream aesthetic standards, Kate is really not thin. She also never denied this:
"I'm fat, and no female star is fat. I never grew up hearing any women say yes to my figure. ”
While attending drama school, her teacher told her:
"If you're content to play the role of those fat girls, you might do a pretty good job."
Even after becoming famous, Kate was often criticized for her stature. After starring in "Titanic", he even got the title of "Fat Warm".
Joan Rivers, a representative of American poison tongue artists, once made a joke:
"If Rose loses 5 pounds, Jack can climb the raft."
But fortunately, Kate never tortured herself with body anxiety.
She's even been fighting the real-life discipline of the female body in her own way — why does the perfect female image have to be young, thin, and wrinkled?
She dared to confidently show her nudity in movies, from the early Titanic to The Reader to the same-sex movie Ammonite.
I also dare to walk generously on the red carpet when I am pregnant. As a regular visitor to magazine covers, she even asked the magazine to change the photos of herself slimming back to the way they were:
"It's not me at all."
She opposed plastic surgery and botulinum toxin, not only opposing it herself, but also bringing in her friends Emma Thompson and Rachel Vichy to form the "British Anti-Plastic Surgery Alliance".
"I'm an actor and I don't want the expression on my face to freeze!"
In addition to her own acceptance, Kate Winslet has a rare restraint and sobriety—to keep her heart when great fame and fortune strike.
Kate became famous very early, starring in the movie "Angel of Sin" at the age of 17, starring in Ang Lee's "Sense and Feeling" at the age of 20, and with this film received both golden globe awards and Oscar nominations for best actress, becoming the youngest actress in history to nominate for an Oscar.
After starring in the film, she was discovered by James Cameron, the director of Titanic, and played the role of Rose, and has since become known all over the world – she was only 21 years old at the time.
In a 1999 interview with The New York Times, Kate said:
"It was a bit silly for me to comment on my fame, and when I decided to be an actor, I never fantasized about being a star."
It wasn't a joke, because that's exactly what Kate did—she chose for herself a path that almost hid herself from her great fame.
Next, she pushed out the hit scripts such as Shakespeare in Love and The King and Anna, and chose to take over the small-budget film "Holy Smoke" directed by Jane Campion, the director of "Piano Lessons"— just because she admired the director and loved the script.
After that, she successively took over several niche literary and artistic films, although there was almost no particularly large splash at the box office, but the cooperation with excellent directors and excellent teams allowed her to absorb a lot of artistic nutrition.
"That experience allowed me to find my true self, and I started paying attention to the untold stories of women and doing my best to present real female characters in the film."
After a few years of silence, Kate shined again in the next century after the millennium.
In 2001, she collaborated with Judy Dan on the film "Hand in Hand", starring in the life of female writer Iris Merckdo, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for the third time.
In 2004, she starred in the surrealist love film "Eternal Sunshine of Pure Hearts", which was a huge success and was nominated for an Oscar again.
In 2005, she collaborated with Johnny Depp on In Search of Neverland, which inspired author Barry to write the novel Peter Pan.
2009 was kate's lucky year, after six Oscars, she and little plum Leonardo once again co-starred in "Revolutionary Road", she interpreted the heroine's pain, struggle, and slight neuroticism into a fascinating interpretation.
It was for this film that she won the Best Actress Award at the 66th Golden Globe Awards.
In the same year, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for the film "The Reader".
At the time, a Reporter from the New York Times gave her this comment:
"None of her performances are mediocre, whether it's action or language, and Winslet is the best of their generation of English-speaking actors."
She never forgot the principle of being an actress rather than a star in her twenties — from the conflicted and vulnerable Adele in "Labor Day" to the capable and rational strong woman in "Steve Jobs" to the frustrated middle-aged police detective in "East Side Nightmare", she has always tried different roles.
Compared to her relatively smooth career, Kate's emotional path is full of bumps.
When she became famous because of "Titanic", her on-screen couple with Little Plum Leonardo was also favored by the world.
And there is no spark between the two.
Kate first met Leonardo at the audition scene of "Titanic", and after watching the actor's performance, she admired it.
She told director Cameron on the spot:
"You must let him play the male lead, even if you don't use me, please use him."
After the titanic aired, Kate also never hesitated to express her praise for Leonardo in public.
In an interview show she said:
"I feel the same way as all the female audiences, and I think how lucky I am to be able to shoot with such a handsome actor who is so talented, cute and approachable, but who works very hard and dedicated."
And the relatively introverted Leonardo also said in an interview with reporters:
"We love and respect each other as important people."
Years later, Leonardo, who was already firm in Hollywood, was asked by reporters about his most admired kissing partner to date, Leonardo said:
"I still think my kiss with Kate Winslet is the most classic."
Despite the public's ardent expectations and unspeakable ambiguity, this pair of golden boys and jade girls have never really been together after all.
But it doesn't seem to be a BE (tragic ending) in the traditional sense – because neither of them really left each other since they were really together.
Some netizens once brilliantly summed up the feelings between them:
"Because they've never been together, they're never separated."
And it seems that this is indeed the case, Leonardo's supermodel girlfriend around him has changed like a marquee, and Kate has also experienced three marriages and countless heartbreak moments, but the two of them have always been with each other and have become the irreplaceable one around each other.
Together, they witnessed each other's growth, hugged each other at each other's awards ceremony, and wept with excitement and tears for each other's success.
They also face heartbreak together, and when Kate is at a low point because of the failure of her marriage, Leonardo personally takes care of her and the children to help her regain her strength and get out of her grief.
Eight years after the Titanic aired, when Kate wrote to invite Leonardo to star in the movie "Revolutionary Road" with him, he agreed without saying a word:
"Dear Kate, believe it or not, but we will be able to work together again in three months."
And when Kate won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for "Revolutionary Road", she confessed to Leonardo in public:
"There's an incredible man who's so special in my world — Leo, I'm so glad I'm standing here and telling you how much I love you and have loved you for 13 years."
When Kate got to her third marriage, she didn't even tell her family, but Leonardo took her hand and married her.
Although this on-screen couple has become the embarrassment of everyone, this is not another form of consummation, although there are clear boundaries, but they can always support and trust each other.
Lovers are not enough, above friendship, this is the best distance, but also the best ending.
During this precious friendship, Kate experienced three marriages.
It is worth mentioning that Kate's maturity and rationality in the two divorces - no matter how much speculation and misunderstanding, she has not revealed the specific reasons for the divorce to the media, and she has never accused the other party in public.
"No one really knows what's going on in my life. No one really knows why my first marriage didn't go on, no one knows why my second marriage broke up, and I'm proud of the silence. ”
She understands the complexity of human nature and faces the complexity of human nature – perhaps because of this, the characters she plays always make people feel the level of the soul under the surface.
Kate cherishes her real life outside of the spotlight, she loves the British summer, enjoys love but doesn't indulge in love, loves the time with her children - she understands that only by embracing the ups and downs of ordinary people can she become a role to achieve herself.
She never regards the years as an enemy, but draws nourishment from the years and nourishes her life more deeply and richly.
Compared with the simple preservation on the skin bag, perhaps this is the real "years never defeat the beauty." ”
The author Le Le, a media major studying for a master's degree, indulges in academics, occasionally writes, and believes in the power of words. Personal WeChat ID: HopeZhang1230, Buddhist Yearly Public Account: Sharer. Responsible editor Bree Wu, the article was first published on the WeChat public account "Yijian Reading" (ID: yijiandushu), the most favorite "character" public account of young people; some of the pictures are from the Internet, if you need to delete please contact us.