“My life was pretty unpleasant,” the Brit told the fashion platform “net-a-porter.com”. “I was grateful, of course. I was in my early twenties and could afford an apartment. But I didn’t want to literally be followed while feeding the ducks.”
The public attention made her feel like she had to “look a certain way or be a certain thing,” she said. After her breakthrough with the James Cameron film alongside Leonardo DiCaprio at the age of 22, she avoided big projects for a while, explained Winslet. “The journalists always said, ‘After Titanic you could have done anything, but you chose these little things’ and I said, ‘Yeah, you can take offense at that! Because, imagine, being famous was terrible. ‘”
According to her own statements, the Oscar winner can now deal with her fame in a relaxed manner. “The only moment I still think ‘Oh God, hide’ is when we’re on a boat somewhere.”
