Tuesday, October 1, 2024
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Kate Winslet felt a deep connection to her role as the real-life World War Two photographer Elizabeth “Lee” Miller in the film “Lee.”
The “Titanic” actor recalled a time during the development of the film when she was sitting at her kitchen table crying as she wondered whether she was capable of portraying Miller in the film.
“I would think to myself, ‘OK, what would Lee do?,’” she added during a Zoom interview.
After many years of development for the British biographical drama film directed by Ellen Kuras, “Lee” will arrive in theatres on Friday, distributed by Roadside Attractions.
Miller was an American model in New York who traded posing in front of the camera for taking photos of the war for Vogue magazine.
She covered the Blitz, the 1940s German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, nurses at an army base in Oxford, and even one of the first depictions of the military using napalm.
Winslet said that if it wasn’t for Miller’s son, Antony Penrose, most people wouldn’t know about the late photographer’s work.
Miller’s son wrote a biography titled “The Lives of Lee Miller” in 1985, on which “Lee” is based.
Source: Reuters
