INTERVIEW

Kate Winslet on why she’s fed up with Hollywood hypocrisy

Now 45, the actress is fed up with red carpets and first-class travel. She is determined to keep her feet on the ground — and change the industry

Kate Winslet
Kate Winslet
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The Sunday Times

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Kate Winslet is sitting in front of a large photo of a very striking peninsula. It is an evocative print. Easy to engage with, but it draws you into its depths. Which, well, is like Winslet herself. The picture was taken by a friend she worked with in 2017 on the set of The Mountain Between Us — “The film I did with Idris” — and, from there, she tells me about a talk she did recently for a school studying Titanic. Somebody asked whether, had Winslet been on the actual Titanic, she would have chosen first class or steerage. She said the latter because they had more fun. Next, though, they all discussed the lack of lifeboats in that section and . . .