From having to settle for ‘fat girl roles’ as a teen to stardom: How Kate Winslet fought for her body’s truth Through archival images, director Claire Duguet’s documentary explores how a curvy, working-class actress became ‘unique’ to her generation Titanic was a huge hit and its co-lead, 22-year-old Kate Winslet , a newly minted superstar. Amid Kate Moss’s era of skinny models, Winslet’s curves were ubiquitous in all the magazines and on red carpets. In a live interview on British television, a woman in the audience wanted to ask a question, “I’ve seen lots of pictures of you in the paper recently talking about your weight fluctuation.
Is that true, Kate?” The actress, who was taken aback by the query, began to laugh awkwardly, responding as best she could. “Aren’t we all sick of the weight thing? We’re all sick of the weight thing. I’m a normal human being, we all go up and down, you know.
The weight stuff that goes on in the papers, it just makes me ill,” Winslet said. “There’s so many young girls out there whose minds are getting messed up by this, and they should just stop.” That televised moment is part of the archive accessed by the 50-minute French documentary Kate Winslet: A Quest For Authenticity (produced by Arte and available via Apple TV) in order to build out its portrayal of the career of one of the most influential performers of her generation.
“I don’t know if she’s the best, but she’s unique. There’s no one lik.