There’s no denying Kate Winslet shimmers on the red carpet – a glorious vision of elegance and beauty. But the 45-year-old actress is so determined to keep things real on screen that she insists on showing her “bulgy” bits.
For her latest role as the unashamedly unglamorous Detective Sheehan in Neon’s gritty crime drama Mare of Easttown, Kate put her foot down when she saw that promotional images for the show had been retouched and insisted, instead, that they go out unedited.
“They were like, ‘Kate, really, you can’t,’” she laughs. “And I’m like, ‘Guys, I know how many lines I have by the side of my eye. Please put them all back.”
And when the director told her he was going to edit out a “bulgy bit of belly” from her sex scene with Guy Pearce, she told him, “Don’t you dare!”
Being staunch is a privilege the mother-of-three feels she has earned after 30 years working in an industry that has, at times, wreaked havoc on her self-esteem.
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