To celebrate the 30th anniversary of 1994’s Heavenly Creatures starring Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey, my podcast “What Would Kate Do?” looks back at this movie from an acting perspective. But I was stalling on recording it, thinking what could I possibly learn from an acting perspective that we haven’t already learned from Kate in the most powerful ways since then. Then I realized there are similarities between this film and the most recent movie Kate is promoting, which is LEE, about the photojournalist Lee Miller.

I talk about many things including:

· Parallels in how Kate uses her eyes to convey emotion in both films, and how much more she can now tell with her eyes in a movie like Lee.

· How Kate has grown as an actress from then to now.

· Times where a crying Juliet Hulme reminded me of a broken-down Lee Miller. I think I’ve seen Kate cry on screen so many times, it’s starting to look “familiar”. Where in Mare of Easttown she manages to hold the tears in, which has a totally different (and powerful) effect.

· A reference to “hard dick day, boys” on set, that is unsettling in today’s #metoo environment.

· What if the Kate now goes back to do Heavenly Creatures, what additional layers she’d be able to add to the character, due to her many acting and life experiences she’s had since.

· How utterly unfair it is of me to do an acting podcast on Heavenly Creatures Kate when it was her very first film role, and she since has had 30 more years of acting and life experiences to access in her craft.

· Kate is nominated for a 2025 Golden Globe playing Lee Miller in Lee: Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama. (Also nominated for playing Elena Vernham in the Regime: Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or a Motion Picture Made for Television).

· Melanie Lynskey also demonstrated a powerful performance in this film, in her first role EVER (movie or TV).

· The differences between Heavenly Creatures and Lee from a female empowerment perspective. Lee Miller has much more power, strength, courage, determination, resilience, kindness, goodness, etc. to showcase. We can be inspired by Lee, whereas we can’t say the same about Juliet in Heavenly Creatures, though we can perhaps understand Juliet’s emotions / feelings. And it’s a great movie!

· Thank you to @adoringkatew on X for finding and sharing so many Kate Winslet news / interviews, especially during the recent Lee promotions. Can’t help but think she’s played a part in Kate’s nominations too. 😊

· How Kate is so proud of her Golden Globe nomination for Lee, and how it will inspire more people to see it. I’ve seen it 6 times now, definitely worth seeing so that you are informed of the vital contributions Lee Miller made.

Interview clip at beginning is from a recent interview with Pete Hammond.

Heavenly Creatures stars Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey, and is directed by Peter Jackson. LEE stars Kate Winslet, Alexander Skarsgård, Andrea Riseborough, Marion Cotillard, Josh O'Connor, Andy Samberg & Noémie Merlant.

#Lee #LeeMiller #LeeMovie #HeavenlyCreatures #KateWinslet

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"Bless our love, always." To celebrate The Regime starring Kate Winslet & Matthias Schoenaerts, coming out in the U.K. on April 8, and now that I've seen 5/6 episodes, I can go more into "What Would Kate Do". This is not a review nor are there spoilers. It's about what we can learn from Kate from an acting perspective. Can you guess who the child is that says "sorry" in the clip at the beginning? (wink)

This is a different type of episode as I'll be mostly following some GIFs created by https://elenavernham.tumblr.com/ in this analysis. After quickly looking at scenes with Martha Plimpton and Hugh Grant. How Kate pulls off playing someone who is narcissistic & repulsive, yet "oddly lovable" (Kate's words).

Some mic problems which I'll fix by next episode (just a few words cut out).

Directed by Stephen Frears. Stars Kate Winslet, Martha Plimpton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Guillaume Gallienne, Hugh Grant, and Andrea Riseborough.

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Listen to this BEAUTIFUL discussion with @unsinkable in a co-hosted podcast about Kate Winslet in The Holiday from 2006!

Kate uses her real accent in this film (apparently for the first time in her career), but seems to play a real version of herself (down to earth, compassionate, goofy / real sense of humor). Thanks Brenda ( @kleoofdreams on Twitter) for suggesting that this movie allowed "more of Kate's personality to shine through". And yes, does Iris shine! :D

We discuss many elements including:

• How Kate can showcase wonderful acting without saying a single word (when she explores the L.A. house for the first time).
• How for a rom-com Kate showcases her acting talent by being very vulnerable and real (including real tears) in several scenes.
• How this movie and what Iris went through, was similar to experiences that L.A. Beadles went through, and how the line "You’re supposed to be the leading lady of your own life" spoke so much to L.A. and speaks to me too.
• Kate's most fricking fricking (yes double) amazing real monolog near the end of the movie, and demonstrates what only truly talented actors / actresses can do.
• How Kate pulls off a line that could be "CORNY" but Kate turns it into one of the most memorable and powerful lines in the film.
• We also discuss Internet fodder about "how could someone like Kate Winslet fall for someone like Jack Black", how annoying & uneducated this thought is, and how people should instead focus on the people that are Iris and Miles.
• At the time this movie was filmed, Kate had not won an Oscar yet, but had been nominated 4 times. The look she gives Arthur's Oscar in this film, tee hee.
• Finally, how this movie illustrates female self-worth and empowerment.

The Holiday stars Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz, Jack Black, Jude Law, & Eli Wallach, along with Rufus Sewell and Edward Burns. :) Directed by Nancy Meyers.

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