Hollywood star Kate Winslet said she ‘takes pride’ in looking less-than-perfect onscreen after she was asked to sit straighter to hide her belly rolls. The 48-year-old British actor is set to appear as photographer Elizabeth ‘Lee’ Miller in a biopic about her astonishing life later this year from debut feature director Ellen Kuras. The film follows a ‘pivotal decade’ in the life of the American war correspondent who lived from 1907 to 1977.
Based on true events, Kate portrays Lee’s journey as she ended her modelling career and took up a camera on the brink of World War Two to capture the globe-altering event for Vogue magazine. In a new interview with Harper’s Bazaar , the Oscar-winning actor opened up about a surprising moment on set. She explained: ‘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: “You might want to sit up straighter.
”‘ To which Kate replied: ‘”So you can’t see my belly rolls? Not on your life!” It was deliberate, you know?’. When asked whether she minds looking less-than-perfect on screen, she added: ‘The opposite. I take pride in it because it is my life on my face, and that matters.
It wouldn’t occur to me to cover that up.’ Elsewhere in the interview, she explained she had a similar approach to her naturally ageing face. ‘I think people know better than to say, “You might wanna do something about those wrinkles”.
I’m more comfortable in mys.