Winning best Performance by an actress in a leading role in
the film The Reader, the lovely, talented, and always magnificent
in her craft, Kate Winslet gave interviews to the press
backstage, after her acceptance speech at the 81st Academy Awards
®. We have the pleasure to share this with you.
On winning The Academy Award®, Kate says, …‘it's
unbelievable. You just don't think that these dreams that seem so
silly and so impossible could ever really come true. And having
been here before and lost to be here and win, I've got to tell
you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot
better!’
On believing in one self, she tells us, …‘I think
there's a secret in having some kind of belief in yourself, you
know, I feel like a very unlikely hero here right now. I was not
the privileged kid who thinks like this could possibly happen to
(them), and you know, it really is a dream coming true. It really
is.’
Q. On a more serious note, I want to ask you
what your thoughts are about the situation with the Screen Actors
Guild and rejecting the latest offer. Do you think we are headed
possibly for a strike?
KATE WINSLET: ‘I hope not. I really hope
not. And it's not because of the actors here tonight, you know,
it's not because of us. It's because of people like my dad, you
know, who really relied on voice-overs, and the occasional
commercial, and the corporate videos to pay the rent. You know,
we can't go on strike because of those people. You know, they
they need those small jobs. They need to be allowed to do those
small jobs, and get that sometimes very small paycheck in order
to raise their families, and I really, really, really hope that
we don't go on strike, and I think it's the last thing that
everybody needs right now.’
Thank you Kate. Thank you so much.
KATE WINSLET: Thank you.
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