We chat with a candle expert and find out how to get the most out of your candles. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated 1/1/20) and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement (updated 1/1/20) and Your California Privacy Rights. She’s the reason why we know about ichthyosaurs and we know what coprolites are—which is dinosaur poop, basically. I suppose I have slightly…though I’m not on some crusade, a hundred percent not.
I’m still so tormented by it, but I do still love it. It’s a very small, small house that sits right on a heavily pebbled beach right by the cliffs…. Now, at 44, a cultural reckoning, a global pandemic, and a remarkable new film role have caused the Oscar winner to reevaluate her career choices.

The nature of our friendship actually for the last year has been lots of long, hilarious text messages with her going, “Winslet, where the fuck are you? She just got on with it. And actually I’m wearing an old bathrobe because, to be completely honest with you, none of my pants fit me at the moment. Cameron stated in September that filming on Avatar 2 was complete, with the third one nearly finished. Like many actresses, Winslet has taken time over the last few months to reassess many parts of her life. I’m learning a good deal about same-sex relationships and how they’re perceived and debated because of Ammonite and because the relationship between these two female characters isn’t hidden. But now it’s crystal clear.

She told VF that the powerful love story at the center of the film, with a grief-stricken young married woman played by Saoirse Ronan, was “one of the most joyful experiences of my career.”. © 2020 Condé Nast. Check out our brand new online shop and stay tuned for great new MiNDFOOD products! From her discovering that, we know what dinosaurs ate.
You do form these really great connections with people and, sometimes, if you’re lucky, friendships that will last hopefully a lifetime. (The latter is especially true given how much of the movies are realized during an extensive post-production process.) Will be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy. To be able to play this character who shows that level of affection and expression for someone of the same sex has been one of the most joyful experiences of my career. Style: What’s the nature of your friendship these days? I must have sort of buried it, because I had forgotten. I’d go, “Fucking hell, Saoirse, look at my hand and your beautiful, little, delicate, tiny hand. To be able to play this character who shows that level of affection and expression for someone of the same sex has been one of the most joyful experiences of my career. Physically, with my own body, I was determined to allow for the differences in my own womanly self to be seen—and not to cover them up with makeup or hide them. Did you see that people were streaming it on Netflix in record numbers after the coronavirus hit? What else helped you get into the character’s mindset? There’s a solidity and a heftiness to her that I wanted to create. Kate Winslet is "very proud" of herself after breaking a filming record while on the set of Avatar 2. She is particularly known for her work in period dramas, and often portrays angst-ridden women. I don’t want to do that. It just gave me pause.

Does that lens make you look back on your previous projects differently? So I said, “I will say the things that you can’t actually make your mouth say. It said, “Emergency. One of the camera boys—as we’re lining up a shot, and we’re both in our little undies, naked from the waist up—I heard him as an aside say to someone else, “Well, I guess it’s hard-dicks day, boys.”. I never have. She was a woman of pure integrity. International, I would like to receive the weekly newsletters, I would like to receive the daily MiNDFOOD recipe. I would sometimes walk into the room and [go along with directions] even if it was a little thing, like the director saying, “We’d like to have you two over there in the corner by the window because the light’s good,” yet the [setup] made my character look more feminine or look more lusted after or something. Jesus Christ, you know? It’s always really pained me, the money that gets wasted on colossal, great big junkets: flying journalists, actors, glam squads all over the world.

It’s funny because, even then, I was like, “Hang on. Completely fucking outrageous. From the 'Titanic' to 'The Holiday', we have laughed and cried as we have watched her on the big screen. The hours and stress that people pour into these things.