Kate Winslet : coming of age

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SESSION DE JANVIER 2005
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Kate Winslet talks to L.Felperin about Finding Neverland, the joys of getting older and
turning down Woody Allen.
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Kate Winslet : coming of age
Perpetually described as an English rose, Kate Winslet was planted firmly in the film
landscape more than a decade ago and keeps on flourishing. It is a shock to be reminded that
she’s still only 29 years old. She was just a 17-year-old slip of a thing when she made her bigscreen debut playing a hysterical murderess in Peter Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures*- if you
don’t count that Sugar Puffs** commercial made when she was 11.
“I really like getting older and I still love birthdays. I’m going to be 29 soon. I’ve got two kids
and I’ve done a lot with my life. To be 29, feels fitting,” she says.
The film she is promoting when we meet in Venice is Finding Neverland*. In it, Winslet,
warm and charming, even when her character catches consumption, plays Sylvia Davies, a
widowed mother of four young boys who befriends the Scottish playwright J.M Barrie
(Johnny Depp). The family inspired Barrie’s 1902 book The Little White Bird*, which
eventually evolved into Peter Pan*.
Her frankness is admirable. “My daughter doesn’t even think I have a job because I have been
around so much this year.” Indeed, Winslet famously turned down the chance to star in
Woody Allen’s newest movie which was shot in the UK this summer. I gingerly ask about it.
“Here’s what happened. Woody asked me to be in this film, and originally I said “ yeah, I’d
love to do that.”
“ But the reality was he was filming right the way through the summer when I had planned to
be home with my children. So I wrote him a letter explaining I felt I couldn’t be in his film
and he was incredibly gracious and sent me a letter back immediately saying “ Dear Kate,
don’t even give this a second thought. Of course, it’s disappointing, but your reasons are
admirable.” And he was really a gentleman about it. And it’s fine.”
The Independent
Leslie Felderin
29 10 2004
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** Sugar Puffs : a brand of cereals, cereals children eat for breakfast
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THROUGH -TO – WHAT - WHILE – YET Many of Winslet’s past roles have been in costume dramas.
“It was just the way the cards fell until 2002 when we shot this film,” she explains.
“But …1… then everything I’ve shot has been contemporary. When Neverland came along, I
thought “Enough, no more period dramas for a …2… . It’s just that I kept being drawn …3….
these characters who were so strong and happened to be in period pieces.”
The most famous example being Titanic, of course. In the past Winslet has frankly discussed
…4….. a gruelling shoot it was and …5… exacting a director James Cameron was.”
Did the experience put her…6…. making another film that big?
“Now that I’ve been around the block a bit, I’m older and wiser; I can …7….. much handle
whatever is thrown at me. But I haven’t read anything …8….. where I thought, “Yeah, that’s
the one.”
“I never saw Titanic ……9… a springboard for bigger films or bigger pay cheques. I always
wanted to say I love my job and never want to be bored by it. Thankfully I do love it and am
…10…. thrilled by it.”
The Independent
Leslie Felderin
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