Here are some photos of Kate Winslet and Liam Hemsworth at the TIFF premiere of The Dressmaker on Monday night. Kate’s dress was Badgley Mischka and it was… okay. Her body looks great, I’ll say that, but I’m ambivalent on the dress. Now… I’ve gotten in trouble before for claiming that Kate has, at times, looked Botoxed to hell. During her last pregnancy, her face really softened and I sort of forgot about it. But nowadays? Um, I think she’s hitting the ‘Tox again. There’s something about her brows and her forehead, it’s like the Nicole Kidman thing. Too tight? Not responding to the lower half of her face? Something like that.
Kate is currently 39 years old, soon to be 40 in October. Her costar and on-screen love interest is 25-year-old Liam “The Hot One” Hemsworth. I really don’t care about the age difference as far as on-screen romances go, and I’ll admit to enjoying the idea of a nearly-40-year-old woman breaking off a piece of Young Hemsworth. The problem, perhaps, is that the story of The Dressmaker has the two actors playing characters that are supposed to be close in age. Um…? Seriously? Here are Kate and Liam discussing the film with Salon:
Winslet on whether the film is feminist: “I think it’s quite dangerous to kind of label things in that way. The word feminism, being a feminist, they’re both strong profound statements that can speak huge volumes, and I’m not necessarily sure that I would apply that to this film, it’s just f–king cool that you’ve got this amazingly strong woman at the heart of this story and that she happens to get revenge at the end, it’s just super great.”
Hemsworth on playing Winslet’s love interest: “It was something I was sort of worried about in the beginning. I felt like I was possibly too young to play this part because in this film we’re seen as the same age, around the same age… But onscreen — Kate is such a beautiful woman and I have a beard in the film so I look quite a bit older, so I don’t think it’s an issue at all… She looks really young and I look weathered and old.”
Winslet on the age difference: “Isn’t that great, he’s about five years old. It didn’t really occur to me actually at all, I really didn’t know how old he is, I truly didn’t. I think it’s all about how you feel alongside that person, I didn’t particularly feel as though he was particularly younger than me or I was older than him. I felt more experienced than him in terms of career and in terms of the amount of years that I’ve been doing it for in comparison to him, but I didn’t feel uncomfortable or that or awkward at all. I didn’t have a sort of fist-pumping moment of hey look at me with the younger actor. I didn’t feel like that. He was the right person for the role.”
Again, if you want to make a movie where a 40-year-old lady has hot sex with a 25-year-old Hemsworth, more power to you, God bless and Godspeed. But of course people are going to have some issues with the whole idea that a 25 year old and a 39 year old are supposed to, magically, be THE SAME AGE within the film. It goes the other way too, of course: you can make Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper on-screen love interests, but don’t try to convince us that they’re the same age. It’s not happening.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
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