Kate Winslet

[Ginger]

I wonder if she was aware of what was going on with Kate.

Kate has said Emma noticed she was undereating and gave her a big angry lecture on how losing weight would be wrong for the movie and wrong for Kate, and then Kate says she snapped out of it.

[kafka]

The Sun tabloid has a video clip from Romance and Cigarettes, showing Kate Winslet talking dirty to James Gandolfini .

According to someone on the BBC America website,

OK, don't be an idiot like me and play this clip at full blast in your office--I was immediately asked if I'd completed my sexual harassment training yet--but The Sun links to a clip of James Gandolfini and Kate Winslet gettin' it on in the new John Turturro-directed musical Romance & Cigarettes, which opens in the UK tomorrow. From the Sun:
"In the viral clip, dirty-mouthed Tula is having energetic sex with lover, Nick Murder - played by a jolly, James Gandolfini."

"And she is not shy to say what’s on her mind."

The audio is, most certainly NSFW (not safe for work), but there is no nudity. If you're at all averse to seeing Mr. Gandolfini's rotund abdomen, this clip's not for you.

The film's set in New York and is about a working-class husband (Gandolfini) torn between his wife (Susan Sarandon) and his mistress (Winslet). The movie also stars Steve Buscemi, Christopher Walken, Mandy Moore (!), Aida Turturro, Mary-Louise Parker, and looky here, Mr. Song-and-Dance himself, Eddie Izzard. It's supposed to be released in the U.S. this summer.

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I'm looking forward to All the King's Men. Kate and Jude-he may be a sleaze, but damn, that'll be a lot of pretty up on the screen!

[Wol]

ginger said:

I wonder if she was aware of what was going on with Kate.

Kate has said Emma noticed she was undereating and gave her a big angry lecture on how losing weight would be wrong for the movie and wrong for Kate, and then Kate says she snapped out of it.

Ah, more reason to love both Emma and Kate.

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John Turturro on Kate. Once again with the weight thing...

“When I met her she was very thin. She’d read the script and she liked it, but I thought, ‘There’s nothing here, she’s so small’.

“Then she got pregnant and she was upset. But I said, ‘No it’s perfect!’ We starting filming after she’d had the baby. She tried to get in shape a little bit - but I said ‘Don’t worry, it’ll be really appropriate for the film’.

“I’d imagined her as someone I had a childhood crush on - I wanted her to look like a fantasy.”

[kafka]

Kate on her husband:

Kate Winslet is amazed by the common misconception that her brainy husband Sam Mendes is an academic bore. The star insists the filmmaker - who attended prestigious English university Cambridge - doesn't pass his free time leafing through William Shakespeare's tragedies Hamlet and Macbeth.

She says, "Oh how little people really know my husband. And by the way, he doesn't keep copies of Shakespeare on the bedside table either, it's not like I'm married to some professor."

I think that last part is extremely condescending and drips with superiority. For one thing, there's nothing wrong with being a professor. For another, it's like "I'm not married to a professor; I'm married to a big Hollywood producer!" I don't know, something about her comment rubs me the wrong way.

[orchidthief]

Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if Kate was asked by an interviewer if her hubby was all academic and stuff. I don't know Mendes, never met him. But in a few quotes I've encountered of his, it seems like he always tries to construct this facade of intellect (plus, he has the 'stage wunderkind' rep and all those Chekhov and Shakespeare plays to add to his 'brainy' cred).

I remember reading a recent comment of his in which he started to compare his work in Jarhead with Sartre and Bunuel, and I started screaming "pretentious bullsh*t!" (and this is coming from a person who liked Jarhead... thought it was Mendes' most decent film to date).

Anyhoo, I fault hubby, not Kate. If anything, I'll try to separate Kate from her "I am an arteest" hubby. It's hard, but I'll try...

[sharpteeth]

Misconception or not, I'm amazed that she wants to debunk it. Imagine protesting that your husband isn't academic and doesn't spend his spare time reading.

As for my Sam Mendes stories, they're not particularly juicy. My other half's brother and sister-in-law own a restaurant in London at which I worked up until last year. He regularly dines there - usually without Kate. He has hosted several private "parties" (well, dinners) there and was condescending and rude the first time I had the pleasure of serving/meeting him. The second time he was downright unpleasant toward my sister-in-law (who is the joint owner, not just some lowly server as I was) and reduced her to tears over the waiting time for the special selection platter he ordered for someone who didn't like the menu (which is always "set" for the month, as he well knew) though of course he hadn't requested any special dishes and just had high and mighty expectations.

Obviously, I can only assume that he's farfarfar nicer to people who aren't members of the service industry and are more on his level. He continues to dine at the restaurant though, as it's the only one of its kind in town. He was there with Harvey Keitel last time...for what it's worth. Mr Keitel was delightful, and has what I can only describe as a "mega-watt" smile despite being haggard. Not that that's on topic. ;-)

[orchidthief]

sharpteeth said:

Misconception or not, I'm amazed that she wants to debunk it. Imagine protesting that your husband isn't academic and doesn't spend his spare time reading.

As for my Sam Mendes stories, they're not particularly juicy. My other half's brother and sister-in-law own a restaurant in London at which I worked up until last year. He regularly dines there - usually without Kate. He has hosted several private "parties" (well, dinners) there and was condescending and rude the first time I had the pleasure of serving/meeting him. The second time he was downright unpleasant toward my sister-in-law (who is the joint owner, not just some lowly server as I was) and reduced her to tears over the waiting time for the special selection platter he ordered for someone who didn't like the menu (which is always "set" for the month, as he well knew) though of course he hadn't requested any special dishes and just had high and mighty expectations.

Obviously, I can only assume that he's farfarfar nicer to people who aren't members of the service industry and are more on his level. He continues to dine at the restaurant though, as it's the only one of its kind in town. He was there with Harvey Keitel last time...for what it's worth. Mr Keitel was delightful, and has what I can only describe as a "mega-watt" smile despite being haggard. Not that that's on topic. ;-)

Ew. What a douche bag.

And that's pretty juicy, I'll say.

Okay, I find it really hard to disassociate Kate from Mendes now. I know they are two distinct individuals, but damn... ?!

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Yeah, she doesn't have the greatest tastes in men, does she?

Oh well, even if SHE is a douchebag, I still love her acting and her sense of style.