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recalling a drama teacher who told her in her youth: “Darling, if you’re going to look like this, you’ll have to settle for the ‘fat girl’ parts.”“What did that do to your spirit, your confidence?” Vega asked.
“It made me think, ‘I’ll just show you,’” Winslet said. “Just quietly. It was like a sort of a quiet determination, really.”That “quiet determination” served Winslet well. In her teens, she scored her debut film role as Juliet in 1994’s “Heavenly Creatures,” and at 20 she snagged her breakout role as Rose, the romantic lead in the 1997 megahit “Titanic.”she experienced an onslaught of scrutiny of her body from the public and the media.
When Vega recalled this time in Winslet’s life and asked the Oscar winner if she ever got to confront any of these body-shamers “face to face,” Winslet said she did once.“It was a great moment because it wasn’t just for me,” Winslet told Vega, her voice growing hoarse. “It was for all those people who were subjected to that level of harassment.”The “Mare of Easttown” star, 49, now seems to have embraced the quietly rebellious approach of simply not caring how others perceive her.
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