Kate Winslet has been attached to play American war photographer Lee Miller since 2015, and yesterday marked a major step forward for the project. According to Deadline, Entertainment One snagged worldwide rights for the biopic, and will both finance and distribute the film.
Miller began her career as a model in New York. She later became an artist who collaborated with Picasso before finding her way to photography. She served as a correspondent for Vogue, where she published photos documenting the events and effects of WWII, including the London Blitz and concentration camps. Miller suffered from PTSD when she returned home.
The drama is based on “The Lives of Lee Miller,” a biography written by Miller’s son, Antony Penrose. Penrose has given producers — including Winslet —full access to Miller’s original photographs and diaries. Neither a screenwriter nor a director has been named.
This role could very well lead to Winslet’s eighth Oscar nomination. She won in 2009 for “The Reader,” where she played a woman who served as a guard at a Nazi concentration camp.
Jennifer Lawrence is also set to play a photojournalist on the big screen. The “mother!” star will portray Lynsey Addario in an adaptation of the her best-selling memoir “It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War.”
Winslet was recently announced as the recipient of SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s Actors Inspiration Award, an honor that pays tribute to artists for their career achievements and charitable work. Her latest pic, “The Mountain Between Us,” hits theaters October 6. The drama centers on two strangers who survive a plane crash but are left stranded on a remote, snow-covered mountain.
