3Kate Winslet Compares Love to Carrying Rocks or Something

Kate Winslet has had a few relationships go awry in her time, but who hasn’t? Now she’s married to some Ned Rocknroll bro, and while it may seem like any man with that name is probably not capable of going the distance, Kate has learned a lot over the years and she’s sure now she can make it work.

From Harper’s Bazaar:

“I’ve really learnt a great deal about myself, in the last four years in particular,” she said. “I think I can see more clearly now – about how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am, and the characters I have played – and I’m grateful for that.

“I have so much more material to draw on for work – rubble, bricks – and I know I can carry it now. I’m not going to drop it, and if I do, I’ll sift through it. Does that make any sense at all?”

I don’t really understand the rubble and bricks analogy, but she’s so pretty, it kind of doesn’t matter. Also, I love when actors get all navel-gazey and think they’re saying something really profound. Like, hello, we’re all shaped by our experiences. It’s called being a human being. I hate to snark on Kate because I absolutely adore her, it just gives me a little chuckle whenever people get so artsy fartsy about their own existences.

Check out a few of the shots from Kate’s Harper’s Bazaar cover below.

March 6, 2013 at 11:30 am by Jennifer

6Kate Winslet’s Wedding Ring Is Pretty Normal, Guys

US Weekly snapped Kate Winslet out and about in Hampshire, England this week, showing off her wedding ring from her recent marriage to Ned Rocknroll. While the photo isn’t much to speak of, the ring looks rather normal and like nothing too lavish, which just continues to prove something I have always known in my heart of hearts: Kate Winslet is one classy broad.

Listen, I’ve loved her since Heavenly Creatures and like wine, cheese and my real-life boo, she just gets better with time. She’s effortlessly and classically beautiful, a genuinely nice person (I’ll have to share my Winslet stories one day – stories about her rudeness are just false) and my God, the woman can act. Look at how great she looks! Look how few f-cks she gives about going out and about without full make-up and clothes straight from the runway! Look how often Titanic is on TV and how many of those times I watch it even though I have the DVD! (All the time; 95%)

Anyway, not much to see here in any regard, but any chance to cover the Meryl Streep of our generation (don’t even get me started on Meryl!) is a good one.

February 5, 2013 at 9:30 am by Jennifer

0Kate Winslet Got Married!!!

You guys! The three exclamation marks are reserved for very special occasions only, and this, friends, is a very special occasion. Not because of the actual marriage, probably – we don’t get much into Kate Winslet gossip over here, but the guy she married actually calls himself Ned Rocknroll. Like, that’s his actual name, and I just can’t get firmly behind that. So yeah, I’m not super pumped about the marriage part, but this one particular fact about the wedding? That’s what earned that punctuation in the headline. And it’s amazing.

From People:

Kate Winslet has tied the knot with Richard Branson’s nephew, Ned Rocknroll, her rep tells PEOPLE.

“I can confirm that Kate Winslet married Ned Rock’nRoll in NY earlier this month in a private ceremony attended by her two children and a very few friends and family,” the rep says. “The couple had been engaged since the summer.”

According to British media reports, Leonardo DiCaprio gave away the bride in a ceremony so secret that the bride and groom’s parents didn’t know about it.

The Oscar-, Golden Globe- and Emmy-winning actress, 37, has been dating Rocknroll, 34, (his legal name) since fall of 2011.

In August 2011, she and Rocknroll were on the same Caribbean island owned by Branson when a fire broke out and Winslet rescued Branson’s 90-year-old mother.

Winslet previously was married to Sam Mendes and Jim Threapleton.

Yeah, it’s kind of weird that their parents didn’t know anything about the wedding. And it’s definitely weird that this dude legally changed his last name to Rocknroll, and that Kate could feasibly start calling herself Kate Winslet-Rocknroll. But guys. Leonardo DiCaprio gave her away. And that is more important than everything else that ever happened in the world.

December 27, 2012 at 4:30 am by Emily

12WATCH THIS: Kate Winslet’s Titanic Screen Test

Holy crap. Kate Winslet was only NINETEEN when she starred (and headlined) in Titanic? I’m going to say it again: holy crap. She’s just amazing. She’s luminous. She shines. She outacts so, so many other girls that are her age now (including people like Selena Gomez, Lindsay Lohan, and a handful of others who are considered “actresses” nowadays), and she’s just …gosh, she’s just brilliant.

I dunno, guys. Even if Kate Winslet is an uber-big bitch, it’s this kind of thing that just makes me adore her no matter what. Even if she does have a second career as the number one Titanic hater the world over.

September 11, 2012 at 5:30 pm by Sarah

4Kate Winslet Can’t Even Look at Her Fans

From Radar:

The real Kate Winslet may not be nearly as sweet as her on screen persona!

Kate rudely snubbed her adoring fans in the small town of Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts recently while shooting her new movie Labor Day and Star magazine has exclusive details about her shockingly bad behavior.

“Kate was so rude, she never once acknowledged any of us, I was devastated,” hopeful fan Shanna Swan told Star.  “She gave dirty looks to people in my town who waited hours to see her.”

Shanna grew up in the small town and has been a huge fan of Kate’s since she was a child and said the actress was received with open arms from the town’s people. “Upon her arrival everyone was yelling ‘Kate we love you!’ and you could hear everyone gasping with excitement when her black Cadillac pulled up.”

She said she had been waiting in the rainy cold weather with her young children to see the Oscar winning actress and was surprised when Kate refused to acknowledge the crowd of fans.

“I could feel and hear the excitement of everyone around me saying ‘OMG is that Kate? When is she coming?’ and there were lots of excited senior citizens. I witnessed several seniors asking the production staff if Kate would come and talk to fans and there were roughly 100 people waiting for her.”

Unfortunately, Shanna said Kate refused to look at the crowd and completely ignored everyone waiting to meet her.

“She always plays such warm people on the big screen, I thought she would be kind, so when she was mean, I was crushed,” Shanna said. “I watched The Titantic 13 times when I was 12 years old, and Kate wouldn’t even look up for a second to acknowledge we were all adoring her.”

“Everyone in town was really hurt, and I could hear people calling her name.  After she took off, one lady right next to me specifically said, ‘Wow. How rude was that?’”

Now everyone in the small town is talking about Kate’s behavior, “She was just plain nasty. Kate was only on set for a short time and jumped back in her Cadillac and took off, without even a wave or thank you or a smile for us.”

“This was the first celebrity I’ve seen in my lifetime, and sadly the experience was hurtful to me and my entire town.  Kate Winslet really left a bitter taste in our mouths.”

Look, there’s absolutely no reason why someone should act like this. If a group of people took time out of their day to come see you, you can take time out of yours to smile at them. That’s all Kate had to do. She could have smiled and waved at them – you know, she could have acknowledged them – and none of us would be thinking “hmm, is Kate Winslet kind of a bitch?” Why was that so hard?

June 15, 2012 at 9:30 am by Emily

4Kate Winslet Talks Body Image (Again) to Vanity Fair Italia

From the Daily Mail via Vanity Fair Italia:

Winslet on whether she’s bored with talking about body image: “Better say that I’m bored of what it means that we are still here talking about it: it means that nothing has changed. Otherwise, no, I believe it is important to go on insisting that normality is not what we are exposed to. Honestly, among my acquaintances there is no woman wearing XS. No, sorry, there is one: my daughter. The point is that Mia is 11 years old.”

On public criticism of her evolving body: ‘It’s one of those things I learned quickly to ignore. Once it was different, it hurt me. When I was twenty I pretended it didn’t bother me, but I felt very bad, I did. In front of journalists and the public I acted superior, but I was dying inside. Now everything is different. It takes time, but you can learn it.’

Getting rid of “the fat girl”: “It’s true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but – you know – I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks. Wow, isn’t this a wonderful line?”

On her normal life: “I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It’s who and what has to do with my job that makes it “unordinary.” I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.”

You know, I can get behind Kate Winslet‘s backing of the unnatural idea for some people that every woman—no matter the age, height, or body structure—should be a size 00, but I’m kind of confused about where she’s going with the “you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were.” It seems like there’s still a bit of a sore spot there, and while I admire her for being able to admit these kinds of things candidly, it kind of strikes me as odd that she’d choose the words “get rid of the fat girl.” What’s so wrong with being “the fat girl”, either physically or psychologically?

But hey. Whatever, right? She’s not trashing ‘Titanic’ for the first time in six months, so I’m not going to pick it apart too much. She’s a beautiful lady with a beautiful figure, and judging by this interview, Kate’s apparently a whole different person than she used to be. We all grow at different paces, and it’s nice to see someone who’s been in the spotlight for so long evolve into something that she’s apparently always wanted to be.

June 5, 2012 at 10:30 am by Sarah