Titanic: Kate Winslet explains why being a famous young woman was ‘awful’

Titanic: Kate Winslet explains why being a famous young woman was ‘awful’

In a lengthy interview, the revealed British star of Titanic spoke about the impact of the world’s most famous film on her life as a young woman. Two decades later, the actress extolled the salutary consequences of #MeToo on actresses’ relationship with their work, their relationships and themselves.

As the world prepares to discover her as a powerful woman at the head of an authoritarian regime The regime, Kate Winslet recounted her first steps into the ruthless world of Hollywood. In an interview for Goalkeeper magazinethe 48-year-old actress revealed this media pressure, the continuous intrusion into one’s private life AND the injunctions related to her gender significantly altered her life at that time.

“My life has become quite unpleasant“

The year is 1997. At just 22 years old, Kate Winslet finds herself catapulted to stardom, in what would long remain the biggest box office success in movie history. Speaking about the career of her daughter Mia, also a 23-year-old actress, Kate Winslet noted that young women were very more free in contemporary industry: “Now it’s different. Mia always remains herself. [Les jeunes femmes aujourd’hui, ndlr] know how to use your voice. »


Titanic: Kate Winslet explains why being a famous young woman was ‘awful’
Kate Winslet The Regime // Source: YouTube screenshot

Recalling her journey, Kate Winslet spoke about that time Titanic :

“I felt like I had to fit a certain image, look a certain way. The media was so invasive back then my life has become quite unpleasant. »

“Journalists always told me: ‘Later Titanic, you could do anything and yet you chose to make small films”… and I said to myself: “Yes, more or less I did!” Because, guess what, being famous was horrible. I was grateful, of course. I managed to find an apartment when I was only twenty years old. But I didn’t want people following me as I literally just went out to feed the ducks.

The liberation of #MeToo

Years later, Kate Winslet observed the changes in Hollywood. According to the actress, these developments have taken root in feminism. Showing themselves unitedwomen are much more independent in an industry and media system that once crushed them:

#MeToo has lit a fire within uscollectively, continues, in terms of [ce que nous] we want to leave behind and what we want to say to ourselves. »

When the journalist Bring When asked if, 25 years after the release of Titanic, the fame associated with the film was still a pain, Kate Winslet responded with humor: “Nowadays, the only time I say ‘oh my God, I have to hide’ is when I’m on a boat. »


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