Kate Winslet is at the Venice Film Festival in Italy, promoting her upcoming Roman Polanski film, Carnage and said a scene where her character projectile vomits still has her children talking.

“My kids came to work for the vomit day, and I am so thrilled that they were there because they literally have not stopped talking about it since. It was hysterical,” Winslet said during a news conference, the Associated Press reports.

The film, which is based on the play by Yasmina Reza, “The God Of Carnage,” follows two sets of parents who organize a “cordial” meeting after their sons are involved in a fight at school which leaves one child with broken teeth. The talk goes awry as the adults reveal their less civilized sides.

Winslet appears opposite Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz as Nancy and Alan Cowan, while Jodie Foster and John C. Reilly portray the victim’s parents, Penelope and Michael Longstreet. During an argument where Foster’s Penelope accuses Winslet’s character of lacking interest in her son’s behavior, Winslet vomits cobbler on Penelope’s rare collection of art books.

“While Kate was the one who threw up, Jodie and I had to clean up the vomit, so we had the more disgusting involvement with the vomit,” Reilly joked of the scene.

Winslet had kind words for Polanski, who is known for his work on “The Ghost Writer,” “Rosemary’s Baby” and “The Pianist.”

“If Roman Polanski invites you to join in any project, you really don’t say no,” Winslet said. “I had seen the play in New York so I was already very much a fan on the piece. I just felt extremely fortunate to be included.”

Though Carnage is set in Brooklyn, the film was shot on a soundstage near Paris since director Roman Polanski is limited to France and Switzerland, due to an Interpol warrant for 188 countries for extradition to the United States to face sentencing for having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977.

“The use of space was actually a very precise and confined and minimal and detailed affair,” Waltz said. “But that is exactly Roman’s forte. The precision, the detail, the exactitude. The microscopic way of working.”

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The 35-year-old actress, who’s set to star in Labor Day opposite Josh Brolin, has been nominated to receive her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame next year.

“What I’ve learned about acting is that it needs to be mysterious. If you overthink how a beat needs to be played, it can trip you up,” Kate was recently heard telling a popular newspaper.

“Because you’re trying to do something that is real and sincere in the moment, so that people believe you.

There are times when you just have to put yourself as deeply and firmly in a character’s shoes as you can,” she added.

Source: Mid-Day

Kate Winslet is one of Britain’s most successful movie actresses, but this week the Titanic star returns to television in an epic five-part adaption of James M Cain’s novel, Mildred Pierce, on Sky Atlantic.

The drama also features former Neighbours heartthrob Guy Pearce as her new love interest Monty, and True Blood‘s Evan Rachel Wood as her snobby daughter Veda. Kate told What’s On TV what made her choose Mildred…

What attracted you to the role?
“For me the director is always a really big pull. I’ve been a fan of Todd Haynes for many years and I’d also heard many wonderful things about him from other actors who I know. I was very, very excited and flattered that someone I respected want to see me. The scripts are wonderful. I could just feel there was gravity to them as a piece and it would really be challenging for me and they’re very true to the book. Also I saw Mildred as an extraordinary mixture of vulnerability and fragility, but strength at the same time. There were many things about her that I’d never played before which I found very exciting.

“There was also size of the production, too. I wanted to get my teeth into something that’s a big script and a huge project. It’s like a five-hour movie, rather than television.”

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Guy Pearce has claimed that Kate Winslet did not want her breasts showing when filming sex scenes in Mildred Pierce.

The actor told Sky Magazine that the show’s director Todd Haynes gave the cast specific advice to follow when filming love scenes.

Pearce said: “It’s really about choreographing things. ‘So I’ll be on top of Kate, then we’ll kiss?’ I’d ask.

“Todd would say, ‘I’d love for you to roll over, and I’d love Kate to be on top. Then I’ll have the light coming through the window and it will look lovely’.

“And Kate went, ‘Yes, but I don’t want my breasts showing’. It’s all very technical, but there’s this part of your mind going, ‘This is really erotic and strange’.”

Winslet has previously admitted that she hates stripping off for sex scenes, but later said that she looked good naked in her Oscar-winning performance in The Reader.

Co-star Evan Rachel Wood said that Winslet gave her advice and encouragement before she filmed her own nude scenes in Mildred Pierce.

Source: Digital Spy

Kate Winslet says working with director Roman Polanski is “extraordinary”.

The actress stars in the film adaptation of the play God Of Carnage which is helmed by Polanski and described how the aging movie legend’s positive attitude affected the cast.

However, the 35-year-old said that the filmmaker is a tough taskmaster nonetheless.

“Roman is extraordinary. He’s 77 years old and has a joyful, effervescent quality that’s very infectious,” she told Total Film.

“None of us knew what to expect, because Carnage is based on a play, but we ended up learning the whole thing, staging it and rehearsing it like a play and then filming from the beginning to the end in ruthless order. Roman said it was the first time he’d ever filmed that way, but it was necessary for this particular piece.”

Winslet feels lucky to have worked with him and several other high-profile directors over the last year. While the famous filmmakers she were all incredibly different, they were also unique in their brilliance.

“Todd Haynes, Steve Soderbergh and Roman Polanski are all so unbelievably different, and I feel like I’ve seen this whole spectrum of creative brilliance in the past year,” she said.

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Kate Winslet has “set the bar” in her career and now she wants to work at maintaining it.

The Hollywood actress, who is renowned for her roles in movies such as Titanic and The Reader, doesn’t want to get complacent when it comes to her successful movie career.

The 35-year-old, who won an Oscar for her portrayal of Hanna Schmitz in 2008 movie The Reader, insists there’s always things left to accomplish.

“I set the bar, and the bar is how good my work is, so it’s still about working hard, reading and making sure I bring something to the character that is true and sincere,” she said in an interview with Total Film.

The blonde beauty — who has two children Mia, ten, and seven-year-old Joe — feels lucky that she is still a major player in the film industry.

Kate says despite her determined nature, she doesn’t encourage herself to continually “top” her previous achievements.

“I’m fortunate that I’m still being invited along for the ride by great people,” she explained. “Awards and nominations are extraordinary, but at the same time it would be a mistake to ever think, ‘Oh God, I’ve got to top that.’”

Source: Musicrooms.net

When St. John replaced Angelina Jolie with Karen Elson they made it clear they were going in search of their roots.

They’d gotten lost along the way, chasing the youth factor, hiring an actress instead of Kelly Gray to be their face and re-working their stable of classics. But now it appears as if they’ve steadied, and they’re jumping back on the A-list bandwagon. It makes sense that the first face of the new St. John would be Kate Winslet.

Winslet’s one of the few A-list actors who feels accessible — everyone loves her even though she’s gorgeous, wealthy and ridiculously talented. She’ll appeal to the classic St. John customer as well as a younger crowd, and the other brand she reps, Lancôme, is perfectly aligned with St. John.

WWD reports they’re shooting the fall ads in New Jersey, with Craig McDean, today.

Source: Elle

Kate Winslet doesn’t travel on private jets because she wants to keep her children’s lives as normal as possible.

The 35-year-old British actress has daughter Mia, ten, from her first marriage to director Jim Threapleton and seven-year-old son Joe with estranged husband Sam Mendes.

Kate, who is renowned for her roles in blockbusters such as Titanic and The Reader, doesn’t want her Hollywood lifestyle to interfere with her kids’ upbringing.

“It’s very important to me to keep things as simple and normal as possible. They go to a regular school and I don’t ever want them to feel that there is a lifestyle difference between them and their friends because of what I do,” she told Hello! magazine. “And there really isn’t that much of a difference — it would be something if every time we got on to a plane it was a private jet, but we don’t live like that.”

The Hollywood beauty appreciates her success but is happy to forget about it when it comes to being a mother. Kate loves that her children respect her being an actress and understand everything that comes with the job.

“It’s really just about me being the mother I want to be, and not making any huge changes to our lifestyle based on my success. I give them what I feel they need from me as a mum, and the success and fame part just stays at the door,” she explained. “The kids respect the fact that I do the job. I do it because I love it, and that means a lot to me.”

Source: Musicrooms.net