Kate Winslet still dares to bare
Updated: 2006-10-30 09:15
I mentioned in my column from Toronto last month that there's a scene where
Kate's character is at a book club meeting, reading from Madame Bovary, and it's
as if she's playing a poker game because she has to discuss the book without
giving away her innermost feelings.
At this moment in the film, Kate's about the most breathtaking she's ever
been. It's one of those performances that will make the Golden Globe, Bafta and
Academy Award voters take notice.
It's a shame so much of her role was cut out of All The King's Men. The
film's director had nearly a year to play with it and he bungled it. In fact,
only Jude Law comes through in the movie. He's having a good year, what with
Breaking And Entering.
He and Kate play siblings in the forthcoming romantic comedy The Holiday,
and from what I've seen of it Kate scores as highly in comedy as she does in the
drama of Little Children, which was showing at the London Film Festival this
week and opens next Friday.
Cameron Diaz and Jack Black also star in The Holiday, a glossy studio picture
that has proved to be Kate's biggest payday since Titanic.
Kate is taking a year off to spend more time with children Mia and Joe,
particularly while husband Sam Mendes is preparing to stage David Hare's new
play on Broadway. "I may just end up making packed lunches, but I don't think
that will happen," she told me with a conspiratorial wink.
Indeed, there are all those awards ceremonies to prepare for, and they go on
till the end of February.
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