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...significantly less annoying Bridget Jones, Winslet is appropriately frazzled and even Diaz finds her niche, playing up the blonde, Californian cookie-cutter to an entertaining degree...
...Holiday” begins with a one-time voice-over by Iris (Kate Winslet), a wedding announcement writer for a London paper, who is both shocked and heartbroken to learn that the unrequited love of her life is to be the topic of her next report...
...turn out that way; I got more jobs in television and films. Frankly I hadn't seen anything that kind of moved me. When Sam [Mendes] first sent the script to me I was doing a film, I kept thinking about the play. I mentioned it to Kate [Winslet, Mendes's wife] at our kids' nursery school and the next day Sam showed up and said 'If you can commit to Broadway right now, we'll move it,' and I said OK. The material was so compelling, so moving, so relevant. It's unbelievable timely...
When I first came to New York I had every intention of being a theater actor. It just didn't turn out that way. When [director] Sam [Mendes] sent the script, I was doing a film, but I kept thinking about the play. I mentioned it to Kate [Winslet, Mendes' wife] at our kids' nursery school, and the next day Sam showed up and said, "If you can commit right now, we'll move it." You've been directed by your husband [Bart Freundlich] three times, most recently in Trust the Man. How much of that film was autobiographical? What...
...gutsy thing to do--to make fun of your own image--because it could misfire horribly or, worse, confirm everyone's suspicions about you. But of all the traits needed for stardom, the one Winslet really radiates is confidence. With few exceptions (there was a short-lived marriage, before her current one to director Sam Mendes), she knows what she wants and how to get it. And as she put it, "I don't do anything by halves." Her coffee is taken very hot and strong, her unfiltered cigarettes rolled by herself--although, she says, she only smokes during interviews...