You have to be impressed by Kate Winslet. Everyone knows what great of an actress she is, having been honored with Oscar nominations and with plenty of other awards on her mantle to prove it. This year, she’s really showing her mettle as a movie star, headlining two intense dramas based on difficult but popular novels, which many think will finally get her a much-deserved golden statue (or two).
Already in theaters is The Reader, adapted by Stephen Daldry and David Hare (The Hours) from Bernard Schlink’s novel, in which Winslet plays Hanna Schmitz, a German woman who has an affair with a 15-year-old boy (newcomer David Kross) only for him to discover a dark secret from her past later in their lives.
She went right into making that after being reunited with her Titanic co-star Leonardo DiCaprio in
