Kate Winslet: I Don’t Give A F___!
Kate Winslet is the cover story for the latest issue of Parade. Her next film, Revolutionary Road, opens in December and is directed by her husband Sam Mendes and costars Leonardo DiCaprio.
On being different from the norm in Hollywood:
Ever since she burst to superstardom in Titanic in 1997, she has seemed in a category of her own: matchlessly talented, splendidly full-bodied in a profession where thinness is an obsession, and unapologetically down-to-earth. There’s a delicate beauty to her face, but that resolute jaw seems to signal her willingness to play strong, uncompromising characters. “Kate Winslet is always naked, sitting on a toilet, or running buck naked,” Halle Berry said recently. “She’s free. I want to be the kind of actress who can really be comfortable with my body like that.”
When I read Winslet the quote, she guffaws with delight. “Oh!” she says. “That’s so amazing. That is worth the pain! I am thrilled to hear someone like Halle say something like that. But what I would want to say to her is, ‘Well, you can,’ because all I do is say, ‘I don’t give a ____!’”
On how she and former Titanic co-star Leonardo DiCaprio have aged:
“I’m like, ‘Yes, damn it! Look at those foreheads move!’ I mean, he has this amazing furrow here (points to a spot between her eyebrows) which wasn’t as prominent then, and this (points to the wrinkles on her own forehead) is much more prominent in me now. I just love seeing those things. I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn’t as well-oiled as it was.”
What does she want for her children?
Winslet and Mendes married in 2003; their son Joe was born later the same year, and her daughter lives with them full-time. “Having children just puts the whole world into perspective,” Winslet says. “Everything else just disappears. For my own children, I do want for them to look back and remember that it was me in the kitchen, that I was doing the packed lunches, that we were there on the school run, that we did take a bus. I want them to remember those things, because those are the things that I remember from my own childhood and that have been incredibly important to me. I also think that those are the things that children need in order to become normal kids. I don’t want them to feel that they are any different because of my job or Sam’s job.”
What she wants to give her children is what she herself had: a household firmly grounded in reality. Her father was an actor, and her mother’s parents ran a repertory company. “We never had any money,” she tells me. “I really grew up in a world of struggling actors who were doing it because they loved it.”
Read the full interview at Parade.com.
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