Shocking secrets of Kate Winslet

At age 11, she was accepted into the legendary Redroofs Theater School in Maidenhead.

She worked with the Starmaker Theater Company in Reading, for which she participated in more than two dozen plays. Although her overweight caused her to be discriminated against and not given leading roles.

Despite successive rejections, she went ahead. The academy also functioned as an agency, bringing the best students to London for castings.

She that way she was her like in 1994 she was one of 175 girls who auditioned for Peter Jackson's psychological drama Heavenly Creatures. The New Zealand director was struck by her intensity and cast her in the role that would mark her stunning film debut.

Her portrayal of Juliet Hulme, a teenager who helped her friend Pauline Parker murder her mother, drew as much attention as the film based on a true case and marked the first hinge for her career. her.

She was praised by critics and quickly landed her second job, in Sense and Sensibility, directed by Ang Lee. She was nominated for the Golden Globe and the Oscar in the category of best supporting actress: she had already fully entered the Hollywood machinery.

After acting in Michael Winterbottom's Jude and playing Ophelia in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet, she received the screenplay for Titanic. Before deciding, she met with Emma Thompson, with whom she had worked on Sense and Sensibility.

Legend has it that she told him: "Honey, you have to accept this." Thus, she joined the filming of the blockbuster that would change her life forever.

It was Rose, a romantic heroine who undoes the strict rules of the high society of which she was a part and lives an affair with a young man from a lower class.

In the end, after the shipwreck, he drowned from her by giving up her place on the board they were clinging to. She, on the other hand, survived to tell the story.

Titanic had a budget of 200 million dollars. Filming took place on Rosarito Beach in Baja California, where a replica of the ship was created, and Winslet did not have a good time.

Once she nearly drowned, she suffered hypothermia from immersing herself in ice water and caught the flu. After weeks of sleeping only four hours a day, she ended up exhausted and with bruises all over her body.

The film became the highest grossing in history, with a collection of 2,100 million dollars, a record that years later would be successively surpassed by Avatar and Avengers: Endgame.

And she won eleven Oscars, among which was not the performance of Winslet, which she lost to Helen Hunt (Best ... impossible). Statuette or not, she achieved superstar status.

Still, her presence on screen was shocking. She did the first of several that she would do throughout her career. Who does not remember her posing in front of her beloved Jack hers, lying on a sofa and wearing only a necklace, while he drew her? That scene from Titanic raised the temperature among the spectators and immortalized it.