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Everybody knows Andy Samberg as a comedy superstar. But Kate Winslet, Sambergs costar in Lee, seems to have proclaimed the Emmy-nominated SNL and Brooklyn Nine-Nine star a serious dramatic actor. Winslet, an Oscar, Emmy, and Grammy winner, stars as acclaimed American war correspondent and photographer, Lee Miller, in the new film. Samberg plays David Scherman, who became one of Millers contemporaries at Vogue magazine. The man who shot the famous photograph of Miller in Adolf Hitlers bathtub in his Munich flat.

Yet another gripping scene in Hitlers apartment finds Samberg reacting to the unimaginable Nazi terror and Holocaust surrounding him and his colleague. Suddenly, we see Winslet embrace Samberg as he sobs in his costar's embrace. In a recent interview with MovieWeb, we asked the actor, whose family is Jewish, what was going through his mind when filming that scene.

Lee (2024)

Release Date September 27, 2024Director Ellen KurasCast Kate Winslet, Andy Samberg,...

Kate Winslet has been stoking the creative fires of Lee for some time. Long before the new biopic about acclaimed American war correspondent and photographer Lee Miller was fully realized, the Oscar- and Emmy-winning actress contacted Tony Penrose, Lee Miller and Roland Penroses son. She wanted to know why nobody had made a film about his famous mother. Penrose informed her that many people had tried and that there was an entire box of screenplays in the attic of potential movies that never went anywhere. Penrose reportedly told Winslet that the writers just didnt quite get her, referencing his mother.

Winslet did. And by the time director Ellen Kuras became involved, it was clear that the film would be in good hands. Kuras is an award-winning cinematographer, who impressed with her work on Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Summer of Sam, and The Betrayal. She exhibits creative veracity here,...

Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet has long been an advocate for positive, realistic portrayals of women in Hollywood, but she was recently reminded there is still a long way to go. In an interview with Harpers Bazaar UK, Winslet revealed that a crew member attempted to offer some "helpful advice" about covering up what they perceived as her physical flaws. The Titanic star said on the set of her new film Lee, she was advised to try to hide her "belly rolls" when she wore a bikini.

The film, set during World War II, tells the true story of Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, a fashion model who became a war correspondent and combat photographer capturing the war in Europe. According to Winslet, a crew member's advice about her posture came back as more insulting than helpful. She told the publication:

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Despite beginning over three decades ago, Seinfeld still stands up as one of the most beloved sitcoms of all time. While most people will recognize the main characters as the greatest strengths of the show, there are plenty of standout characters that are not Jerry, Elaine, George, or Kramer. Some of the most memorable characters come from single episodes, such as the "Soup Nazi" from the episode of the same name and Lt. Bookman, played by Philip Baker Hall, from the episode, "The Library." The best of the more minor characters,...

Oscar Micheaux is a trailblazing American filmmaker whose name and fandom — including Spike Lee and the late John Singleton — are better known than his groundbreaking films. A festival opening in New York on Friday, May 3, at Film Forum aims to fix that.

Though competition is steep in the New York film space, with 17 films and several curated special events, “Oscar Micheaux and the Birth of Black Independent Cinema” is designed to make history. Seven films on the schedule are new restorations of the original prints. Some screenings will be accompanied by live musical performances, much like when silent films were originally exhibited in the 1910s and 1920s. On May 5, there’s also a tribute for the recently deceased author and filmmaker Pearl Bowser, a pivotal architect of the renaissance Micheaux’s work now enjoys. The lineup also boasts conversations with DJ Spooky (aka Paul Miller), who composed new scores for...

The trailer for Kate Winslet’s biopic about World War II correspondent photographer Lee Miller, Lee, shows Winslet struggling to hold a camera as bombs explode around her. Wearing a soldier’s helmet, she looks shaken and scared as she questions her life choices in voiceover: “Why does it matter? They’re just pictures.” But the emotion on her face and the trauma she subjects herself to for the pictures suggests the film, which opens in theaters on Sept. 27, will present a nuanced portrait of the photographer.

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Roadside Attractions and Vertical have acquired U.S. distribution rights to “Lee,” the war biopic starring Kate Winslet as influential WWII photographer Lee Miller.

“Lee” is the narrative feature directorial debut of cinematographer Ellen Kuras (she was previously nominated for an Oscar for co-directing “The Betrayal”), who worked with Winslet on “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.” The film earned buzz for Winslet’s performance following its premiere at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, sparking some hope of an Oscar or awards campaign for Winslet, but the film took some time to find a domestic distributor in a market slowed by the strikes.

Roadside Attractions and Vertical will release “Lee” theatrically on September 20.

Lee Miller captured some of the most indelible images of war in the 20th century, including an iconic photo of Miller herself inside Hitler’s private bathtub. The film begins in the late 1930s and...

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Kramer was always the show's X factor. Jerry provided the services an anchor character needs to deliver — be the straight man, the locus from which all storylines issue and return, and, because this was the '90s, a ladies' man. George meanwhile could be relied on to panic, fret, and comically blow his fuse, and Elaine, honestly, was just a vessel for whatever the comic genius Julia Louis-Dreyfus wanted to do. But Dreyfus was never wild or unpredictable.