Kate Winslet Has Frank 4-Word Message About Women Showing Their Bodies On Camera

Kate Winslet would like to reframe the public narrative about taking ownership of ones unvarnished appearance on the big screen.

In an interview with Time published Thursday, Winslet brushed off the idea that female actors who opt to forgo makeup and are comfortable baring everything on camera should be deemed brave. 

Thats not fucking brave, she told the publication. Im not an ex-postmaster fighting for justice, Im not in the Ukraine. Im doing a job that matters to me. 

Winslet, a 2009 Oscar winner for The Reader, will next be seen as renowned World War II photographer Lee Miller in Lee, which hits theaters this month. The biopic, directed by Ellen Kuras, apparently had a rocky production, with Winslet even personally paying the cast and crews salaries for two weeks. 

Much of the early buzz on Lee has included discussion  of the films nude scenes. To prepare for her role, Winslet stopped working out so her body would appear, as Harpers Bazaar put it, authentically soft. 

The films production team, Winslet explained, were caught a bit off-guard at first. 

Theres a bit where Lees sitting on a bench in a bikini... And one of the crew came up between takes and said: You might want to sit up straighter. So you cant see my belly rolls? Not on your life! she told Harpers Bazaar. It was deliberate, you know?

As with many female stars, Winslet has had to endure plenty of scrutiny of her physical appearance. While shooting what was to be her breakout role in Titanic, Winslet was reportedly nicknamed  Kate Weighs-a-Lot by director James Cameron.

The criticism only grew more widespread after the movie became a blockbuster. In particular, Winslets body was a subject of widespread mockery as viewers argued  about whether she and co-star Leonardo DiCaprio could have comfortably floated on a wooden door in the freezing Atlantic Ocean, a debate inspired by one of the movies final scenes.

These days, Winslet tells Harpers Bazaar shes come to take pride in simply looking like her natural self on screen.

I think people know better than to say, You might wanna do something about those wrinkles, she said. Im more comfortable in myself as each year passes. It enables me to allow the opinions of others to evaporate.