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Kate Winslet and the battle not to eliminate “the belly portion” from “Murder in Easttown”

Kate Winslet, an actress who has lived for almost thirty years with an aesthetic canon that has never belonged to her that has become a kind of obsession for the media, has no intention of giving up the battle to body positivity inaugurated in unsuspecting times, when there was neither Instagram nor hashtags. According to what she reported to the New York Times, Winslet, on the occasion of the promotion of Murder in Easttown, the new HBO miniseries arriving in Italy on June 9 on Sky and streaming on NOW, would have sent a retouched promotional poster to make her skin smoother, the director’s wish is disregarded delete from a sex scene in the series a detail of his “swollen part of the belly”.

“Do not dare!” she would have told him, convinced that the public identifies itself above all with the characters who seem real, light years away from the ostentatious perfection through social media. “They told me ‘Kate, you can’t’. And I would say “guys, please put all the wrinkles around the eye back in place”. “ The thing, of course, is also closely linked to the character of Mare Sheehan, the protagonist of the series, a woman who is not interested in making up and combing her hair and who seems to have at heart only the resolution of a very delicate murder case in the small community in which he has lived all his life. It is not the first time that Kate Winslet has spoken out on the representation of the female body by the audiovisual industry and the media.

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According to her, the reason that led most of the public to sympathize with Mare Sheehan is precisely linked to the fact that he was “An imperfect woman with a body and a face that reflect her age, her life and where she comes from.” Despite being nominated seven times for an Oscar, winning one in 2009 for The Reader, Winslet continues to clash with those who, since the nineties, have started to wear her by dedicating hundreds of articles on her weight and her extra pounds. In an interview with Vanity Fair in 2008, the actress explained that, at the beginning of her career, she was “fat” and “I did not know any famous fat actress. I just didn’t see myself in that world, I’m very sincere ».

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