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Kate winslet

201 replies

Breakfastfortea · 11/12/2022 20:19

Thoughts on her?

Just watching ‘I am Ruth’

OP posts:
KateBain · 11/12/2022 22:47

I cringe every time a woman is described as an "actor"

Whiskeypowers · 11/12/2022 22:48

IrmaGord · 11/12/2022 22:32

Jesus @Whiskeypowers have you never seen an advert before? It's not that deep.

Do you go into Home Bargains and yell at Live, Laugh, Love signs as well?

What, nobody comments on an advert ?
on Mumsnet ???!!

if they’d used a normal woman then I wouldn’t have an issue.
kate Winslet telling me I’m enough is just risible and because to me - for a celebrity - she appeared to be relatively keen to eschew that nonsense - I found it it strange

if you want to triangulate that into my shouting at signs in a chain store then feel free.

ScrollingLeaves · 11/12/2022 22:53

Whiskeypowers· Today 22:05
Have you seen the advert ?

telling us all to remind ourselves we are
enough. While removing her artfully applied make up from a face that is comparatively free of the average woman’s stress despite the fact she is being wheeled out by L’Oréal on that very platform: the “normal”’woman

Thanks for answering.

K W has always taken a stand against photoshopping in magazines because it gives the impression of perfection to young women which is in fact unobtainable.

In I am Ruth I thought she absolutely did look like a normal woman of her age. She does not look as though she’s had cosmetic surgery, and in this drama she had little make-up, or natural looking make-up.

So I don’t see it as odd that l’Oreal chose her, or think she is a ‘fake’ in that assigned role.

As to her being free of the average woman’s stress, none of us knows what stress she feels. Are you saying that it must be less stress than the average woman because she must be richer? I am not sure that is how stress works ( though I agree she could get more beauty treatments and so on).

They want a recognised face so would never have chosen an average person off the street. And yes, they also would choose someone beautiful not someone average looking. So you are right it is all a lie but that’s what advertisements do: create a mirage.

Advertisements are all dodgy by their very nature. I didn’t like their ‘Because I’m worth it’ ones much as a message.

Southeastdweller · 11/12/2022 22:54

Never liked her after she jumped on the bandwagon re Woody Allen and Roman Polanski, years after working with them.

kateandme · 11/12/2022 22:56

I like how she genuinely said fuck off to those telling her to shrink.though to look as she does I have no doubt has "a 5 man specialist routine" so im not nieve there.

Lennon80 · 11/12/2022 22:57

TeachesOfPeaches · 11/12/2022 20:30

I always think it's funny that she has 3 kids with 3 different dads and it never gets mentioned yet Kerry Katona and Katie Price get slated for their kids having the same amount of dads.

Because she speaks with an RP accent that’s why 😂

MarieIVanArkleStinks · 11/12/2022 23:04

KateBain · 11/12/2022 22:47

I cringe every time a woman is described as an "actor"

I know some actresses bridle at the term - 'I ain't got balls' is one quote in protestation against it - and some insist on 'actor' to emphasize their equality in a profession in which gender pay gaps, strong parts for aging women, etc., are still very much stacked against them.

I don't think either are wrong, especially with all the gender bollocks women have constantly had to fight since the year dot.

But it's a weird one. I'd find it really odd were a female author described as an 'authoress'.

NiLunNiLautre · 11/12/2022 23:05

Southeastdweller · 11/12/2022 22:54

Never liked her after she jumped on the bandwagon re Woody Allen and Roman Polanski, years after working with them.

I think anyone is allowed to evaluate their choices years later and conclude they've made a mistake and now have a different view. There's nothing wrong with that.
I'm just glad she finally renounced Polanski because her association with him did put me off her.

She's a very good actress, and very beautiful.

Perfectpeace · 11/12/2022 23:07

Whiskeypowers · 11/12/2022 22:27

my days you are a patronising so and so
i am fairly ambivalent towards Kate winslet her life is far removed from mine and yours I suspect. I do, however , feel quite entitled to take umbrage with someone in her position telling me to remind myself I am
enough when the circumstances in which She and I are likely to require this affirmation being poles apart

Do you now? You just sound extremely bitter to take such offence at an advert that is meant to tell women they ‘are enough’. I can’t imagine many other people giving it a second thought

Dotcheck · 11/12/2022 23:12

TeachesOfPeaches · 11/12/2022 20:30

I always think it's funny that she has 3 kids with 3 different dads and it never gets mentioned yet Kerry Katona and Katie Price get slated for their kids having the same amount of dads.

I think the difference is that Kerry and Katie court the reality star lifestyle

PurpleButterflyWings · 11/12/2022 23:14

frostyfours · 11/12/2022 22:38

Are you Kate winslet OP?

Do you think she'd tell you if she was?

ArcaneWireless · 11/12/2022 23:15

I think she’d be one of these folk that you could meet in a queue and have a fine yap with.

I haven’t seen Titanic but loved her in Extras.

And I’m currently coveting her brows as the menopause moths keep feeding on mine.

pollyglot · 11/12/2022 23:22

TeachesOfPeaches · Today 20:30
I always think it's funny that she has 3 kids with 3 different dads and it never gets mentioned yet Kerry Katona and Katie Price get slated for their kids having the same amount of dads.

Perhaps because she has talent, and is not just an empty airhead?

Are you really a teacher? It's "the same number of dads."

Itsoktogiveup · 11/12/2022 23:35

She was hilarious in Extras, do watch it if you haven’t. I felt like we were seeing the real Kate.

CuriousMama · 11/12/2022 23:50

mum2jakie · 11/12/2022 20:40

Kate Winslet was absolutely fantastic in Mare of Eastown. One of the best things I've seen on TV

Loved that. And Heavenly Creatures.

She seems very unaffected which is nice.

Didn't she have pie and mash for her first wedding meal? Because that's what they liked.

LadySpencer123 · 12/12/2022 00:20

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Italiangreyhound · 12/12/2022 00:22

I think Kate Winslet is a special kind of person. This really touched my heart.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-63848589

HoppingPavlova · 12/12/2022 00:41

She’s an actress?

Yep, tye one that hogged the raft😂.

WishIhadacrystalball · 12/12/2022 00:55

@Whiskeypowers you cannot possibly know what stresses she has been through. I mean she’s been married 3 times that can’t have been easy. As far as I remember her 2nd husband cheated on her and she was devastated. Not to mention the constant scrutiny of her fluctuating weight in the tabloids. As far as I remember she often spoke out about body image, gender equality amongst other stuff. What more could that be than saying ‘you are enough’.

SleepingStandingUp · 12/12/2022 01:04

TeachesOfPeaches · 11/12/2022 20:30

I always think it's funny that she has 3 kids with 3 different dads and it never gets mentioned yet Kerry Katona and Katie Price get slated for their kids having the same amount of dads.

She doesn't parade them in exchange for making a living. Her relationships aren't her career. If you act with dignity, you're more likely to get treated with it.

SleepingStandingUp · 12/12/2022 01:14

Whiskeypowers · 11/12/2022 22:05

Have you seen the advert ?
telling us all to remind ourselves we are
enough. While removing her artfully applied make up from a face that is comparatively free of the average woman’s stress despite the fact she is being wheeled out by L’Oréal on that very platform: the “normal”’woman

I would find it easy to tell myself i am enough if that’s all I had to worry about and deal with ie loving myself and not having a fuck tonne of worries .
Wonder if she hoped the mother of the disabled child whose utility bill she paid followed that mantra prior to or since?

Hope that clears it up for you.

Surely the current times are precisely the times we need to remind ourselves we're enough, not "you're enough when life is easy" but "you're enough even when you're doing it hard". And of course she isn't worrying about putting the heating n or her partner being made redundant etc., but do you really think people would pay attention to Sarah from Bedford in her Primark frock saying it?

HeddaGarbled · 12/12/2022 01:38

I cringe every time a woman is described as an "actor"

You sound like my dad.

PacificallyRequested · 12/12/2022 01:41

I don't think I've seen her in anything apart from Titanic - I don't watch a lot of films/shows. Saw a promo picture for the one that's on just now and barely recognised her.

Whiskeypowers · 12/12/2022 04:24

Perfectpeace · 11/12/2022 23:07

Do you now? You just sound extremely bitter to take such offence at an advert that is meant to tell women they ‘are enough’. I can’t imagine many other people giving it a second thought

fairly limited range of insults haven’t you? 😂
bit of a reach to label me as bitter due to my questioning the emotional authenticity of a L’Oréal advert.

Whiskeypowers · 12/12/2022 04:28

SleepingStandingUp · 12/12/2022 01:14

Surely the current times are precisely the times we need to remind ourselves we're enough, not "you're enough when life is easy" but "you're enough even when you're doing it hard". And of course she isn't worrying about putting the heating n or her partner being made redundant etc., but do you really think people would pay attention to Sarah from Bedford in her Primark frock saying it?

actually that sort of advertising has been done already. A lot.

im not saying Joe public doing it is better I just was raising it in the context of discussing KW. How many people who are really struggling would find it just insulting or irritating? Do they really need a woman whose life is so far removed from theirs so as to be utterly incomparable in terms of struggles telling them that they are enough? Would you?