Kate Winslet, formerly an actress and mother who became a Hollywood star
"I'm not the perfect woman," says the one who speaks furiously about Harvey Weinstein and loyally about Leonardo DiCaprio
Kate Winslet doesn't mince words. "I always say the truth. As I instill in my children, it is the easiest thing to remember, ”she told last Sunday in a hotel in New York one of the most sought-after actresses of her generation. “I am also honest with myself. It's me. So there is no room for mistakes, "added the 42-year-old interpreter.
Her declaration of principles accompanies her fury when it comes to talking about the inescapable conversation that has dominated Hollywood for two weeks: the scandal surrounding producer Harvey Weinstein and what she feels like an industry plagued with sexual abuse. There she has nothing to confess. "I feel lucky because I started this career when I was 17 years old," says she, who at 22 she was already in the center of that hurricane due to Titanic. She never felt abused, but what is happening does not take her by surprise. "As I was talking to Emma Thompson the other day, we do not experience these situations but we are not surprised given Harvey's horrendous and bully behavior," says who won her only Oscar for best actress for one of her productions, The Reader (2009). When she picked up the statuette from her, she was not mentioned by Winslet among a list in which she spoke the names of 19 people. Now there is no one on the street: "God knows that if he had touched me he would have taken off my shoe and embedded it," she says, carried away by fury. "But I've said enough," she stops herself.
She prefers to talk about other things and enjoy the moment that she lives. In the room, next to her, quiet but smiling, is her third husband, Ned Rocknroll, millionaire Richard Branson's nephew, and by her side since 2013. With a touch of melodrama, the interpreter's tears escape as she exaggeratedly fanns herself to contain them. “The man who has raised me up. The rock of our tribe. My other half. I never said that before. But I can't say more without melting away ”, she reveals herself as she tries to compose herself. The tribe that she mentions is the one that she forms with her three children, Mia, 16 years old; Joe, 13, and Bear, three, the result of her marriages with Jim Threapleton (1998-2001), Sam Mendes (2003-2011) and Rocknroll, respectively.
Joining them is not the seven-time Oscar-nominated Winslet with four Golden Globes in her possession, but the courageous mother Kate who travels with her offspring from the snowy peaks of The Mountain Among Us to the imaginary worlds of the next Avatar of those who will be part, passing through the sunny Conney Island of his latest film with Woody Allen, Wonder Wheel. “At eight I am at home to put the little one to bed and sleep until five in the morning to go back to filming. That is what many do not know about the not so glamorous life of the stars ”, she laughs heartily.
It is one of the myths that she likes to destroy, the pedestal of the stars. The other one that you want to remove was put on by the industry. “They insist that I am an actress with a classical method. And nothing further. It will be the accent, ”she sets it off, sounding terribly British. Winslet still remembers how she was stunned at her first awards show by seeing Jodie Foster, her idol, up close. "Now it happens to me with younger actresses, who approach me and my only wish is that they treat me as an equal," she says. She talks about what she considers "a community" of actors. The other tribe of hers. But in this one, the king is Leonardo DiCaprio, friends since the two made fame with Titanic. They are always in contact, exchanging emoticons from the cold of The Mountain between us to compare experiences with the protagonist, finally Oscar-winning, of The Revenant. Hence the constant rumors. “There are many things about Leo that nobody knows and that I am not going to tell. Just say that he is the most loyal person there is. Pure gold. A true friend ”, she sums up with a happy smile.
She does not care about the drama in which all her characters usually live, next to her it is clear that Winslet is not any of them. “I'm not the perfect woman either. It's true that when I do something I don't leave a stone unturned. But I call that passion, not perfection ”, she sums up her life as an actress, mother and, above all, a woman.
