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Kate Winslet recently opened up about an incident on the set of her new movie, “Lee,” when one of the crew members told her to sit up straight to cover her belly rolls. Playing the role of photojournalist Lee Miller, Winslet has a scene in a bikini and has intentionally bared her stomach.
“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 recalled. “So you can’t see my belly rolls? Not on your life!”
In a Harper’s Bazaar UK interview, the 48-year-old actress embraced not being perfect in a movie. “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,” she explained.
Winslet added that people learned not to comment about her appearance. “I’m more comfortable in myself as each year passes. It enables me to allow the opinions of others to evaporate.”.
She also showed relief that women are becoming more accepting about their bodies. “I don’t know a single contemporary of mine who grew up seeing her mother looking in the mirror and saying, ‘I look nice!’ It was always, ‘Oh, God, I don’t think I can wear this… does my bum look big?’ We waste so much time being down on ourselves, and I’m just not doing it ever again.”
Winslet produced “Lee,” due out next month, and covered two weeks of crew wages during a financial crunch. She was inspired by Miller, who is a Vogue photographer famous for her photo in Hitler’s bath, taken after she along with a group of GIs entered his abandoned apartment in Munich.
The film also highlights the double standards women face—among them being branded as “outspoken” or “headstrong” for the things that get brushed off in men. Despite being the lead star, Winslet did not demand special treatment on the set and has said, “As long as I’ve got a kettle and a loo, I’m good.”
Kate Winslet will be gracing the September cover of Harper’s Bazaar UK ahead of the release of her film “Lee.”
