The success of the film Titanic it should have been one of the highlights of actress Kate Winslet’s life. Instead, it turned into a nightmare – and the Oscar winner blames the UK media for turning on her as she became an international superstar, which resulted in her “going into self-protection mode immediately. “.
At 22, Winslet went from being an active British actress to a household name, thanks to Titanic becoming a box office mega-hit immediately in 1997. That’s when she realized that her press coverage changed, and bullying started almost instantly. “It was like night and day from day to day,” she shared on WTF with Marc Maron podcast. “Furthermore, I was subjected to a lot of personal physical scrutiny and criticized a lot – the British press was actually quite cruel to me.”
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As a result, she says, she began to associate fame with the constant nitpicking of her body and media harassment. “I felt quite intimidated, to be honest,” said Winslet. “I just remember thinking, ‘Okay, well, that sucks and I hope it goes away.’ And it definitely passed, but it also made me realize that if that was what it was, I wasn’t ready to be famous, thank you. Not definitely NO. “
As she was put in the spotlight, Winslet was slow to gain some perspective on what happened to her. She formulated a plan to stay away from making big Hollywood films and “try to strategically find smaller things, just so that I could understand art a little better and understand myself a little better, and maintain some degree of privacy and dignity,” she explained. she . It was his way of preserving his sanity when the British press was relentless.
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For Winslet, it took about three years for the intense brilliance of the media to move on. The birth of her daughter, Mia, in 2000, also changed her concerns from bullying to enjoying time with her newborn. “My focus was on my son, and that was all that mattered,” she said.
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