Kate Winslet Says Crew Member Suggested She Hide Her “Belly Rolls” While Filming ‘Lee’
deadline.comKate Winslet has revealed how a crew member suggested she sit up straighter to hide her “belly rolls” during the filming of a bikini scene in World War II drama Lee.
Winslet says she brushed off the suggestion because it was right for her character Lee Miller, a photojournalist who goes from shooting for British Vogue to documenting the frontline. “There’s a bit where Lee’s sitting on a bench in a bikini… And one of the crew came up between takes and said: ‘You might want to sit up straighter.’ So you can’t see my belly rolls?
Not on your life! It was deliberate, you know?” she told Harper’s Bazaar UK. Winslet said she stopped exercising before shooting Lee, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year, and that she takes pride in her features. “It is my life on my face, and that matters.
It wouldn’t occur to me to cover that up,” she said. The Oscar-winner added: “I think people know better than to say, ‘You might wanna do something about those wrinkles’ … I’m more comfortable in myself as each year passes.
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