Kate Winslet Has a Message for a Crew Member Who Suggested She Hide Her ‘Fat Flabs’ in New Movie

Kate Winslet remains true to herself three decades into her career.

The Oscar winner has long expressed strong feelings about portrayals of body image on screen, and her approach to her new World War II drama, Lee, is no different.

In a recent interview with Harper’s Bazaar Speaking about her role as photojournalist Lee Miller, the Titanic actress revealed she stopped exercising completely to make her body look smoother.

But despite this intentional choice of character, Kate recalls an incident on set where she had to insist that her body be represented authentically.

“There’s a part where Lee is sitting on a bench in a bikini,” she said. “And a crew member came in between takes and said, ‘Maybe you should sit up straighter.’ So you can’t see my rolls? Absolutely not!”

“It was deliberate, you know?” she added.

The Revolutionary Road star explained that she was “proud of it because it’s my life on my face, and that’s important. I wouldn’t think of hiding that.”

During the interview, Kate also opened up about being catapulted to global fame at the age of 21, after revealing earlier this year that she had struggled with an eating disorder.

“I’ve been through a lot of media harassment, and it’s affected me,” she told the magazine. “Look at all those years in my twenties where I was all different shapes and sizes.”

She added that today she feels “an immense relief to see that women accept themselves much more and refuse to be judged.”

“We waste so much time denigrating each other and I will never do it again,” she added.

This isn’t the first time Kate has fought to have her real belly preserved in a scene.

Back in 2021, the actor insisted that a “little bit of belly” was not removed from a sex scene in his Emmy Award-winning series Mare Of Easttown.

She also rejected a photoshopped promotional poster, saying The New York Times:“I loved her marks, her scars, her flaws, her imperfections and the fact that she had no off switch, no off button.”