Kate Winslet has revealed she ‘refused to cover her stomach rolls’ after a crew member told her off during filming of her latest movie Lee.
The Oscar-winning actress, 48, spoke candidly about the incident as she embraced her natural beauty while posing topless in the sea for her recent shoot with Harper’s Bazaar.
The star plays model and former World War II photographer Lee Miller in the biopic, an adaptation of Antony Penrose’s 1985 biography The Lives of Lee Miller.
However, during filming, Kate revealed that a crew member had advised her to sit up straighter to hide her rolls.
Kate told the magazine: ‘There’s a bit where Lee’s sitting on a bench in a bikini… And one of the crew came up between takes and said, “Maybe you should sit up a bit straighter.”
Kate Winslet has revealed she ‘refused to cover her stomach rolls’ after a crew member told her to during filming for her latest project Lee – as she poses topless for Harper’s Bazaar
The Oscar-winning actress, 48, looked sensational as she embraced her natural beauty while being photographed topless in the sea
“So you can’t see my belly rolls? Never! It was intentional, you know?”
She also admitted that she doesn’t mind looking less than perfect on screen, explaining, “The opposite. I’m proud of it because it’s my life on my face, and that’s important. It wouldn’t occur to me to cover that up.”
Kate starred in one of the most iconic nude scenes of all time in 1997’s Titanic, playing the role of Rose. She lay on a couch and asked her lover Jack, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, to “paint her like one of his French girls.”
Meanwhile, while filming a sex scene for Mare Of Easttown in 2021, Kate wanted her character to be portrayed as ‘a fully functioning, disabled woman with a body and face that move in a way that is appropriate for her age.’
“I think we’re a little bit deprived of that,” she said of the dearth of unfiltered and realistic female bodies in films and on television during an interview with the The New York Times.
While she admits that her “not so glamorous” appearance in the series may come as a surprise to some viewers, she said she turned down director Craig Zobel’s offer to cut out “a round belly.”
“Don’t you dare,” she remembered telling him after he assured her the broadcast would not happen.
She also received a lot of flak for returning the promotional poster for the series twice “because it was too edited,” even though she knows for sure how many “wrinkles” she actually has around her eyes.
However, during filming, Kate revealed that a crew member had suggested she sit up straighter to hide her rolls
The star previously stripped naked in 1997’s Titanic, playing Rose, as she lay on a couch and asked her lover Jack, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, to “paint her like one of his French girls.”
While filming Mare Of Easttown in 2021, Kate said she turned down director Craig Zobel’s offer to remove “a round belly”
In an interview with the magazine, Kate explained: ‘There’s a bit where Lee’s sitting on a bench in a bikini… And one of the crew members came up between takes and said, “Maybe you should sit up a bit straighter.”
The star plays model-turned-WWII photographer Lee Miller in the biopic, an adaptation of Antony Penrose’s 1985 biography The Lives of Lee Miller
The star will celebrate her 50th birthday next year, but feels very comfortable in her own skin and has a lot of self-confidence.
She told Harper’s Bazaar: ‘I feel a huge sense of relief that women are accepting themselves so much more and refusing to be judged.
‘Because I don’t know a single person my age who grew up with a mom who looked in the mirror and said, “I look nice!” My mom never did that: she was always like, “Oh God, I don’t think I can wear this, do I look hippie, does my butt look big?”
“We waste so much time thinking negatively about ourselves, and I’m never going to do that again.”
She added: ‘I think people know better than to say, ‘Maybe you should do something about those wrinkles.’
“I feel more comfortable in myself as the years go by. It allows me to let the opinions of others evaporate.”
Kate came into the spotlight at the age of 20 when she starred in a 1995 film adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense And Sensibility.
Kate also admitted that she doesn’t mind looking less than perfect on screen, as she explained, “The opposite. I’m proud of it because it’s my life on my face, and that’s important. It wouldn’t occur to me to cover that up.”
The star will celebrate her 50th birthday next year, but feels very comfortable in her own skin and with her inner confidence
She added: ‘I feel more comfortable in myself as the years go by. It allows me to let other people’s opinions evaporate’
Kate came into the limelight at the age of 20 after starring in a 1995 film adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense And Sensibility
Speaking about the media bullying and interference she faced in the early years of her career, she said: “I was bullied a lot in the media, and it affected me.”
The young actress was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Marianne Dashwood (pictured with Greg Wise in Sense And Sensibility in 1995)
The young actress was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Marianne Dashwood.
Speaking of the She said of the media harassment and interference she faced in the early years of her career: ‘I was bullied a lot in the media and it affected me.
“Look at all those years in my twenties when I was all different shapes and sizes.”
Talking about her upcoming 50th birthday, she said, “I don’t like big parties and I can’t stand surprises.
“And I want to spend the year doing 50 remarkable things, whether that’s a certain walk I’ve never done, or a place I’ve never been, or acts of kindness — I’m compiling a little list.”
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