Kate winslet the reader interview

With both Revolutionary Road and The Reader coming into theaters around the world, this has been quite a creative year for 33-year-old British actress Kate Winslet.  There's Oscar�-talk for each film, with Winslet in line for best actress, best supporting actress or both.

Kate winslet the reader interview

And ironically, these two films complement each other in that they're both partially set during the same period � the post-World War Two-era of the mid-1950s. 

Winslet already has five Oscar nominations to her credit, two of which made her the youngest actress ever to be nominated twice.

She's also regarded as a champion of showing women's bodies as they naturally are and has always refused to conform to anyone else's template for female nudity. 

As a novel by Bernhard Schlink, The Reader offered a forceful look at the seductive effect of the Third Reich as it gained power and the effect it had on the first post-war generation.

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