Kate Winslet is back in the running for her turn as the emotionally aloof Nazi in The Reader. Even though her role as the anguished suburban wife in Revolutionary Road has been snubbed by the Oscars, Winslet won for both roles at the recently-held Golden Globes. Revolutionary Road, directed by Winslet's husband Sam Mendes, has her reunite with her Titanic hero Leonardo DiCaprio. Fresh after her double win that night, the actress excitedly talks about working with her husband,
Kate Winslet is back in the running for her turn as the emotionally aloof Nazi in The Reader. Even though her role as the anguished suburban wife in Revolutionary Road has been snubbed by the Oscars, Winslet won for both roles at the recently-held Golden Globes. Revolutionary Road, directed by Winslet's husband Sam Mendes, has her reunite with her Titanic hero Leonardo DiCaprio. Fresh after her double win that night, the actress excitedly talks about working with her husband, her kids and nudity in The Reader in this Sunday MiD DAY exclusive
Are you shocked at the Golden Globe wins?
I thought Anne Hathaway was going to win hands down, no question. I really do feel like this is a dream. Has this happened before? It is unbelievable. It is not supposed to happen.
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Nothing like this has happened in a major award show best supporting and best lead won by the same actor.
I was so shocked to win one. And two, honestly, I can't believe it. I absolutely cannot believe it. It is honestly amazing.
Your nude scenes in "The Reader" are impressive.
Thank you so much. That was a really good segue.
You convinced your husband and Leonardo. You wouldn't let Revolutionary Road go. What did they say when you won?
They were shouting so loud, I couldn't hear them. I was shaking so much. I didn't feel a responsibility, no. But, also, I really didn't think that I was going to win for Revolutionary Road. I really, really didn't.
It was such a special
time for all of us making a film and to work with Sam for the first time, to walk away with something like this as a result of that collaboration is unbelievable. It is honorable to have been here so many times and to not have won so many times, to win twice in one night. Okay. I am going to stop because I am really babbling.
What are you going to tell your kids about this?
I have spoken to them already. They were squealing, and I phoned them immediately and squealing. Our son came on the phone and he said, "It's so funny, Mia is dancing a lot." They were just dancing around the room, and it didn't really resemble proper speech. They are old enough now to understand a little bit of what this is. They were also present during the shooting of Revolutionary Road and The Reader, in Berlin and the Czech Republic. They know all about these characters and these stories. So for them, they really understand this. That's sort of an amazing thing for our family.
Can you speak about the dynamics of working with your husband Sam Mendes as your director?
We did talk a lot about, "What's it going to be like? What if you get mad with me and I get mad with you, and what if you think I am really bad one day?" and you have to be so tactful about how you say all of that. We had all of those conversations. We didn't put protective measures in place at all. We just let it be what it is, and it was absolutely amazing. It was genuinely an incredible experience for me to work with him, to respect him so much more than I already did as a result of having had that firsthand experience of being under his gaze every day on this film. Honestly, it brought us closer, it really did. I got to see a side of him that I hadn't seen before, the nuts and bolts of what it's like to see Sam on a film set and experience that for myself. I hadn't had it, and I was envious of those that had. So to have access to a whole other side of him is such a gift.
Both the movies are book adaptations. What kind of relationship do you have with literature?
With literature? Well, I have to be really honest, the majority of the books that I read are children's books to my children. My relationship with literature is mostly built on Mickey and animal noises and doing silly voices for all the different characters in the story. Developing a voice for the writer of the story and hopefully making the kids laugh at the same time.
Having an award-winning mom and dad in the business, do your kids show any signs?
They're both quite colorful children and they have strong personalities. They like performing. Joe is five and Mia is eight and I think a lot of children at that age like to do that, just dress up and act out, play act. So it is very early to say.
But I fully prepared them for this evening. I spoke to them both before coming on to the red carpet, and I said, "You know that I love you very, very much. And you know that it really doesn't matter if I don't win anything because I really did my best and that's what counts?" And Mia said, "Yeah, yeah, I know." It is just extraordinary. I got two.
Five times unlucky
Kate Winslet has been nominated five times before for the Oscars, but has never won. She was up for Best Supporting Actress for her roles in Sense and Sensibility (1995) and Iris (2001), and for Best Actress in Titanic (1997), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) and Little Children (2006).
(Left) With husband and director Sam Mendes at the Golden Globe Awards
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