Critics found the adaptation to be less compelling than the play, but praised the performances of Winslet and Foster. In Quills , a biopic of the erratic Marquis de Sade, starring Geoffrey Rush and Joaquin Phoenix, Winslet played the supporting role of a sexually repressed laundress working in a mental asylum. Hailing her as the „most daring actress working today“, James Greenberg of Los Angeles magazine praised Winslet for „continuing to explore the bounds of sexual liberation“. The following year, she played a fictitious mathematician involved in the cracking of the Enigma ciphers in Michael Apted’s espionage thriller Enigma. Winslet’s character was vastly expanded from a subsidiary love-interest in the novel it was based on to a prominent code-breaker in the film. She was pregnant while filming, and to prevent this from showing, she wore corsets under her costume.
“She’s my favorite actress in the industry,” DiCaprio told Entertainment Tonight at the Golden Globes in January. The twosome were later spotted sharing an adorable hug after he won Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture for his work in The Revenant. The Canadian filmmaker, who teamed up with the English actress on Avatar 2 and 3, exclusively told Us in February 2019 that it was a “dream” to direct Winslet again.
This photo comes from the filming of Revolutionary Road, where the two actors play April and Frank Wheeler, two spouses who are becoming more and more unhappy as they live together in the suburbs. We love seeing them fool around behind the scenes, but we also to see them concentrating and getting ready to perform at their best. As much as they look like goofballs who have fun together, they can also look incredibly smart when they appear alongside one another on the red carpet. They really fit the part of two of the world’s most in-demand film stars.
Janet Maslin of The New York Times praised Winslet’s decision to follow-up Titanic with such an offbeat project, and took note of how well she had captured her character’s „obliviousness and optimism“. While promoting Heavenly Creatures in Los Angeles, Winslet auditioned for the minor part of Lucy Steele for a 1995 film adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel Sense and Sensibility, written by and starring Emma Thompson. Impressed by her reading, Thompson cast her in the much larger part of the recklessly romantic teenager Marianne Dashwood.
As recent as July of this year, the two friends were spotted lounging together poolside outside of DiCaprio’s St. Tropez villa, a sight that is almost too good to be true. Sure, they’re a little older, a little wiser, but damn if we don’t see Jack and Rose floating on that door every time these two are in close proximity. Ultimately, it took nearly six months to shoot, with filming finally wrapping in the beginning of October 2021.
She also became the third actress in history to win two Golden Globe Awards at the same ceremony. Exhausted by the media attention during this period, Winslet took two years off work until she was ready to creatively engage again. Winslet attended St Mary and All Saints‘ Church of England primary school. Living in a family of actors inspired her to pursue acting from a young age. She and her sisters participated in amateur stage shows at school and at a local youth theatre, named Foundations. When she was five, Winslet made her first stage appearance as Mary in her school’s production of the Nativity play.
In 2015, she lent her support to the UNICEF campaign World’s Largest Lesson, which creates awareness among children about sustainable development and global citizenship. Teased as a child for her weight, Winslet takes a stand against body-shaming and bullying. She narrated an Australian animated short film named Daisy Chain , about a victim of cyberbullying. In 2017, Winslet teamed with Leonardo DiCaprio’s environmental foundation for a fundraiser on global warming. Also that year, she and DiCaprio auctioned a private dinner with themselves to raise money for a British woman’s cancer treatment. Winslet teamed with Lancôme and the National Literacy Trust in 2018 to launch a programme that aims to educate underprivileged women in the UK.
These two actors rose to global fame together and not once has either one tried to hog the spotlight from the other. From what we can see, they are always supportive of each other’s success and encourage each other to seek the praise they deserve. Miles Teller played the lead inWhiplash, and was – for a time – Damien’s ideal Sebastian. Unfortunately, Emma was forced to drop out due to her commitments to making Disney’s live-actionBeauty and the Beast.
Dismayed at how the British tabloids portrayed her personal life, Winslet relocated to New York City. She married Mendes in May 2003 on the island of Anguilla, and their son, Joe, was born later that year. The family divided their time in New York with frequent visits to their estate in the Cotswolds, England. Aisle Amid intense media speculation of an affair between Mendes and actress Rebecca Hall, he and Winslet announced their separation in 2010 and were divorced a year later. She admitted to being heartbroken by the split, but affirmed her determination to look after her children in spite of her marital breakups.
Many of the film’s stars had already made names for themselves in the industry by the time the movie was released, and only helped to propel each other further into stardom. Some of the stars went on to receive and be nominated for Academy Awards. An Oscar winner herself, Connelly was impressed with her costars commitment to his performance. She recalled that the two would discuss different ways to approach various moments in the movie any time there was a spare moment. „We were always talking about the scenes that we had to do and what we could bring to them and in what ways we needed help,“ she added.