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'We waste so much time being down on ourselves': Kate Winslet on reclaiming the frame

She’s an Oscar-winning actress who has conquered Hollywood, but Kate Winslet has always had an unusual perspective on her fame

I’d missed her myself in the station car park, where she turned up to collect me after her yoga class in leggings and trainers, hair pulled back into a messy bun and black-framed glasses on her nose. And like all great actresses, she has a protean quality; her most recent outings range from a harassed middle-aged mother in the 2019 award-winning Channel 4 drama I Am Ruth, to the immaculately tailored and emotionally labile tyrant at the heart of this year’s HBO series The Regime. I take pride in it" Indeed, this seems like a fruitful time for her, both personally and professionally, with several upcoming projects she is "incredibly excited about", including an HBO series, Trust, based on a Pulitzer prize-winning novel and directed by Todd Haynes, with whom she worked on the 2011 miniseries Mildred Pierce.

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