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Thank you
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“I am the same person as I’ve always been... what you see is what you get.”
She was attacked in a cam- paign by a national newspaper. There were even sour references to her on daytime television. The fairytale seemed over.
But Winslet, 27, has somehow turned it all around, despite another wave of unwelcome publicity in the wake of a GQ magazine photoshoot in which her womanly looks were air- brushed out, to be replaced by a gaunt face and thin legs.
“I am not going to do some massive cover-up on how I really feel,” she says. “I do genuinely feel great. It would have been nice to play out the last year or so of my life in private, but that is one of the things which come with being well known.
“It sometimes makes me irritat- ed, and occasionally angry. But I have a mechanism for looking on the bright side and try to be good at accepting things. I have seen headlines and have been quoted about my life and mar- riage when, honestly, I have not spoken myself.”
If she feels further irritation at how thin she looked in the GQ photographs, she does not show it. She saw the original photo- graphs and liked them. But she never saw the super-thin air- brushed version.
We met on a dismal winter’s morning in London, but her black high-necked top, with bare arms and shoulders, and black figure- hugging trousers would grace any cocktail party. She looks healthy, glowing and sexy, rather than thin or strained.
She explains: “My main priority is Mia, so there is an instinctive strength kicking in with her. She was the priority for both Jim and me. She is a fantastic kid and a source of tremendous joy.
“But my marriage was not working and had not been work- ing for some time. I am afraid that it is as black and white as that. Whatever has been said, the parting was mutual and con- tinues to be amicable.
Winslet is not prepared to spell out details and there is an obvi- ous reluctance to discuss such things at all. But she says: “I am
the same person as I’ve always been, in that what you see is what you get.
There was also no overlap between her marriage ending and the start of her relationship with fellow Reading-born Mendes, 37, the Oscar-winning director of American Beauty and Road To Perdition. She is also determined not to speak about him.
Winslet spent six weeks in Austin, Texas, on The Life of David Gale. “ I loved working with Alan,” she says. “He decided that we were related in a past life [Parker claims that theory is hers]. We started to anticipate what the other was feeling or thinking.
“I would go to him with the script and say: ‘You can tell me where to go, but I have had a couple of thoughts on this...’ And he would reply: ‘I know what you are going to say.’
“He would then practically read my mind and tell me. He was always right, too. We had the greatest communication and it was great, for me, to be working. I feel that I am flying and really buzzing when I’m working.”
Since David Gale – which opens here in March – Winslet has starred opposite Johnny Depp in Marc Forster’s Neverland, the story of how JM Barrie came to write Peter Pan.
Currently she’s in New York filming the curiously titled Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind – from a Charlie Kaufman script – in which she and Jim Carrey play a couple who try to mend a failing relationship by having their bad memories erased.
Winslet appreciates that is has been an ever-changing, whirlwind nine years since her film debut in Peter Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures, taking in a hat-trick of Oscar nominations for Sense And Sensibility, Titanic and Iris.
“I remember that, after Titanic, people were always telling me: ‘Your life is going to change,’” she recalls. “I was very defensive, saying: ‘It is not. Why should it?’ I am no longer defensive, but do try and lead my life in pretty much the same way as I have always done.”
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