07 August, 2024 06:09 PM IST
Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet has recalled an incident when she was asked to sit up straight to hide her ‘belly roll’ on the sets of her latest film.
Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet has always been vocal about embracing body positivity, and the 48-year-old proved it once again when she showed off her beauty by posing topless in the ocean for her recent shoot for the magazine. Harper’s Bazaar, Read this alsoKate Winslet reacts to body shaming after Titanic: ‘Every woman is now sharing her body on her own terms’
Kate dares to strip naked
The actor appears on the cover of the new issue of Harper’s Bazaar UK. In one of the photos, she poses completely topless in the water and looks straight into the camera. She is wearing a pair of white gold and diamond earrings. In the photo, she is also seen flaunting the small bird tattoo on her wrist.
In the interview the actress talked about body image and her upcoming film, Lea.
The film stars Kate Lee Miller, a model turned photographer who later becomes a war correspondent in World War II. In the interview, the actress recalled an incident when she was asked by a crew member to sit up straight to hide her belly while filming a scene in a bikini.
Don’t be ashamed of doing belly rolls
She said, “In one scene, Lee is sitting on a bench in a bikini… and someone from the crew came in the middle of the shoot and said: ‘You should sit up a little straighter.’ So you can’t see my tummy? Absolutely not! It was done on purpose, you understand?”
The actress also admitted that she has no problem with looking less-than-perfect on screen. “On the contrary. I’m proud of it because it’s my life on my face, and that matters. I don’t see the idea of ​​hiding it,” she said.
Kate hit the spotlight at just 20 years old when she starred in the 1995 adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility.
She is popular for one of cinema’s most iconic nude scenes ever in 1997’s Titanic. In the film, she appeared in the role of Rose. In the scene, she is seen lying on a couch when she asks her boyfriend Jack, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, to make a sketch of her. She was last seen in The Regime.
