This is totally gross, but funny. Kate Winslet has opened up about some of the Hollywood magic that went into her now Oscar-winning role in the film The Reader. Specifically, Kate is talking about a very important wig she had to wear… but first, some backstory. The Reader spans about forty years – from when Kate’s character, former Nazi prison guard Hannah, is in her thirties in 1950s West Germany, to the what I think was probably supposed to be the 1990s. So, roughly, Kate had to be aged with make-up for a 40 to year span. The first part of the film is where 30-something Hannah seduces the teenaged Michael, and there are some sexy scenes.
While she promoted the film, Kate got press because of all of the nudity. Honestly, though, I can’t remember a time when I didn’t know what Kate’s breasts looked like. She does so much nudity in so many of her films. Props to her, but I still hope she eventually takes on a good role where she’s not naked in several scenes. The Reader didn’t just have Kate flashing her boobs, though. We also got a couple of glimpses at her vadge. Kate is now telling Allure that, to play a woman in the 1950s, everything had to be…shall we say… appropriate for the time. Basically, no waxing. No landing strips. No Brazilians. This was a problem for Kate because after “years of waxing, it doesn’t come back quite the way it used to.” So they made her wear a vadge wig. Otherwise known as a “merkin”. Otherwise known as “The Winslet”:
“Let me tell you, The Reader was not glamorous for me in terms of body hair maintenance. I had to grow it in, because you can’t have a landing strip in 1950, you know? And then because of years of waxing, it doesn’t come back quite the way it used to. They even made me a merkin because they were so concerned that I might not be able to grow enough. I said, ‘Guys, I am going to have to draw the line at a pubic wig. But you can shoot my own snatch up close and personal.’”
[From Allure]
Ah, the joys of filmmaking. Can you imagine that production meeting? Who gets chosen to tell the big actress that she needs a full 1950s bush? Stephen Daldry was the director, but I can’t imagine they sent a shy Englishman in there to tell Winslet to put a damn weave on her privates.
In other Winslet news, last week CB reported on Kate’s claim in Hello! Magazine that she didn’t have a chef or a nanny. Her words were, “It’s very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef… But I don’t want that for my children. When they’re older, if people say to them, ‘Did you have a chef?’ I want them to be shocked by the question.” Kate is now totally backtracking on that, saying (through her spokesperson) that she does have “a part-time nanny.” Kate’s spokesperson added, “Kate has never said that she did not have a nanny at a time when she did have a nanny.” Hmm… because that’s exactly what it sounded like she was saying…
Pictures are stills from The Reader, thanks to AllMoviePhoto.
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