From her standout performance in Mare Of Easttown to her Oscar award-winning role in The Reader, it seems like everything Kate Winslet touches turns into gold. And her latest project Lee is no different.

The film, which sees Winslet star as the pioneering American war correspondent and photographer Lee Miller, will be coming out this September. 

Here’s everything you need to know about the Sky Original.

Lee may be centred around the life of Lee Miller, but it’s not a biopic. Instead, the film centres around the most significant decade of Miller’s life, when she travelled to Europe to capture the horror of WWII on the ground.

As the film’s description reads: “As a middle-aged woman, she refused to be remembered as a model and male artists’ muse. Lee Miller defied the expectations and rules of the time and travelled to Europe to report from the frontline. There, in part as a reaction to her own well-hidden trauma, she used her Rolleiflex camera to give a voice to the voiceless.” 

It continues: “What Lee captured on film in Dachau and throughout Europe was shocking and horrific. Her photographs of the war, its victims and its consequences remain among the most significant and historically important of the second world war.

“She changed war photography forever, but Lee paid an enormous personal price for what she witnessed and the stories she fought to tell.” 

Alongside Winslet, the film also stars Andy Samberg – who will be playing Life Magazine photographer David E. Scherman – and Alexander Skarsgård – who is taking on the role of English Surrealist painter, photographer, poet and biographer Roland Penrose.

The Crown’s Josh O’Connor will also make an appearance as Penrose’s son Antony, a young journalist, while Andrea Riseborough will be playing British Vogue Editor Audrey Withers.

Rounding up the film’s central cast is Marion Cotillard who will be playing Solange D’Ayen, the fashion director of French Vogue and a close friend of Miller’s. 

The film marks the directorial debut of acclaimed cinematographer Ellen Kuras, who previously worked with Winslet as a cinematographer on Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind.

Antony Penrose – who wrote The Lives Of Lee Miller, the book which the film is based on – is also be serving as a consultant to the production. 

There is indeed! And it looks like a powerhouse performance from Kate Winslet. Watch it below…

Lee will premiere in UK & Irish cinemas from 13 September 2024 so it’s not too long to wait. 

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