Kate Winslet is determined to be her authentic self, flaws and all — so when she wears a bathing suit on screen, she doesn’t hide any part of herself. In Winslet’s latest film, Lee , she plays model turned photographer and WWII correspondent Lee Miller . While shooting the project, the actress told Harper’s Bazaar UK that she stopped exercising to look authentically soft on camera much to the dismay of one crew member.
“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,’” Winslet, 48, recalled in an interview published on Tuesday, August 6. The Oscar winner remembered thinking, “So you can’t see my belly rolls? Not on your life!” Winslet explained that her body’s softness “ was deliberate ” and not something she wanted to conceal. Throughout her career, Winslet has embraced looking less-than-perfect on screen.
“I take pride in it because it is my life on my face, and that matters,” she shared. “It wouldn’t occur to me to cover that up.” She teased that unlike many of the Hollywood A-listers her age, she’s never felt the need to undergo cosmetic surgery to stop aging.
“I think people know better than to say, ‘You might wanna do something about those wrinkles,'” Winslet quipped. “I’m more comfortable in myself as each year passes. It enables me to allow the opinions of others to evaporate.
” Like her Lee counterpart, Winslet .