With a great career under her belt and thorough knowledge of the industry, Kate Winslet no longer has a filter when exposing situations she experienced in Hollywood that caused her great discomfort that persists to this day. The actress, at 47, recalled on the Happy Sad Confused podcast how much criticism of her body affected her when ‘Titanic’ premiered in 1997.
“Apparently I was too fat. Why were they so mean to me? They were very bad. I wasn’t even fat, ”said the actress of ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’, a film in which she met the director of ‘Titanic’, James Cameron. According to Winslet, the pressure they put on her to have a perfect body of hers led her to a crisis that she currently chooses not to keep quiet about.
At the time of the filming of ‘Titanic’, the interpreter was 20 years old, a point on which she emphasized in the interview granted. “I would have liked to tell the journalists something, she would have replied: ‘Don’t you dare treat me like that. I am a young woman, my body is changing. I’m dealing with everything, I’m deeply insecure, I’m terrified, don’t make this more difficult than it already is,’” said Winslet, who spoke about what happened at that stage of her life. “That’s bullying, and it’s abuse too.”
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Last month, the British actress had expressed how women are easy targets when it comes to criticizing bodies. “I’m not going to apologize for looking like a mess,” Kate said on the BBC’s Woman’s Hour podcast. Part of the criticism of her stemmed from her watching her play a police officer on the Emmy-winning series, ‘Mare of Easttown.’ To personify her, as the story demanded, the actress had no qualms about appearing natural, with her hair up and wearing baggy clothes. “You would never make that much fuss or noise about a male actor’s appearance, would you?” Winset asked on the podcast. And she answered herself: “No, you would not.” In this way, she marked the double standard that exists when judging Hollywood stars.