Before playing Lee Miller in Ellen Kuras’s gripping biopic, Kate Winslet lent her features to another wartime character: Hanna Schmitz, an SS guard at Auschwitz.
Released in cinemas in 2008, The Reader by Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliott, The Hours, Favelas) is an adaptation of Bernhard Schlink’s bestseller (translated into 39 languages).
The story takes place in West Germany after World War II. A teenager named Michael Berg meets and falls in love with Hannah Schmitz, a mysterious thirty-five-year-old woman.
A secret and passionate romance ensues before they part ways and Michael finds Hannah on trial eight years later for Nazi war crimes.
Michael Berg is played as a teenager by David Cross (The Wind of Freedom, The Color of Victory), then as an adult he is played by British actor Ralph Fiennes.
in turn Kate Winslet Agreed to get a few wrinkles (and not just a few): thus, he will appear with gray hair, a tired face and features distinguished by life. Unrecognizable!
Kate Winslet fierce and unrecognizable
And the least we can say is that this radical transformation amused the actress. Assisted by make-up artist Ivana Primorac, BAFTA-nominated for her work on Sweeney Todd, Kate Winslet Put on a latex suit to make it look more bundled up. In total, four hours of preparation were required to achieve this change.
for his moving performance, Kate Winslet Received an Oscar, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, as well as a European Film Award for Best Actress. And yet, Rose DeWitt Bukater’s interpreter in Titanic almost never played this role of ex-Nazi guard.
Indeed, given that she’s already been filmed on the set of Sam Mendes’ Uprising, a comedy-drama in which she reunites with Leonardo DiCaprio, it’s Nicole Kidman who should replace her. and finally Kate Winslet He managed to free himself and did well!
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