Mar 26
'13
Helen Mirren criticizes director Sam Mendes for only naming male influences

In yesterday’s Tom Hiddleston post, I included a photo of Helen Mirren, who was also in attendance at the Jameson Empire Film Awards over the weekend. Helen looked amazing, of course, and as it turns out, Tom presented Helen with the Legend Award. Before that happened, though, Skyfall director Sam Mendes was honored several times over (for Skyfall, obviously) and when Sam spoke, he had named some of the men who were his major influences. And when I say “men” I mean “all sausages”. So when Helen came up to make her Legend speech, she called him out for only admiring dudes:

She was presented with the Legend Award at the Empire Awards on Sunday evening. And proving that she truly is a legend, Helen Mirren took the opportunity to criticize Sam Mendes after he failed to mention any female film makers as his influences.

As she arrived on stage to pick up her own award, she began her telling off by saying: ‘I don’t want to unduly pick on Sam Mendes, but when he spoke about his inspirations earlier this evening, I’m afraid not a single one of the people he mentioned was a woman.’

Continuing The Queen actress said: ‘Hopefully in five or 10 years, when Sam’s successor is collecting their Inspiration award, the list will be slightly more balanced in terms of its sexual make-up. In the meantime, this one is for the girls.’

As she left the stage, the dame was reportedly met with huge applause from the audience who clearly agreed with her point. The Skyfall director, who picked up three events on the evening, used one of his speeches to credit the directors that had inspired his own career. Some of the names he mentioned in his men only list included Paul Thomas Anderson, François Truffaut, Martin Scorsese and Ingmar Bergman.

It is unclear how Mendes, who won Best Film, Best Director and the Empire Inspiration Award reacted to Helen’s public telling-off.

Not one to dwell on things, Helen, 67, did also make a joke at the ceremony in the Grosvenor House Hotel. Accepting her accolade, she said: ‘I feel more of a leg-over than a legend. I have been more in my career.’

[From The Mail]

This is something I’ve been thinking a lot about recently as I watched the push-pull of coverage about Sheryl Sandberg’s advice/memoir-ish book Lean In. Sandberg talks about women mentoring women, and she also says that some of the most significant mentors she’s had in her life were men, men who saw something special in her and gave her a leg up professionally. Her point was, I think, that if women want to succeed in business (any business), we can’t simply wait around for a powerful woman to mentor us – we have to build alliances and professional friendships wherever we can get them. I believe the same goes for men, by the way – why can’t a man have a female mentor? Why can’t a man’s professional life be significantly influenced by women?

Back on topic, I don’t think it’s particularly strange that none of Sam Mendes’ directorial mentors/heroes are men – something like 95% of all film directors are men, so it’s not like Mendes would drop in Kathryn Bigelow’s name just for some gender equality. But here’s what I DO find odd – that his inspirations/heroes are ONLY male directors. What about his mother? Or a female producing partner or business partner? How about a wife or an ex-wife? How about a female artist or an actress or something? Compare Sam Mendes’ gender tunnel-vision with a director like Ridley Scott, who consistently talks about all of the female influences on his life – and Ridley has a history of making films ABOUT strong women too.

Photos courtesy of Daniel Deme/WENN.

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Nov 27
'11
Kate Winslet’s ex-husband really is boning the alleged other woman, Rebecca Hall

I know most people won’t give a crap about this story, but I’m feeling a moment of gossip vindication! In March of 2010, Kate Winslet and her director husband/baby-daddy Sam Mendes announced their split. At first, sources were mealy-mouthed about the “reasons” for the split – stuff about how Sam and Kate’s marriage suffered after they worked together, and that Sam was “bored” in the marriage, blah, blah, blah. And then some of the British tabloids began saying that The Real Reason was Sam’s ongoing friendship/relationship with Rebecca Hall, a young actress who is probably best known to American audiences for her part in The Town. Here’s a photo of Hall:

Sam and Rebecca were working together when Sam and Kate Winslet broke up, and there were rumors of an affair. Rumors that Rebecca offered a non-denial denial for when they came up during The Town’s promotion. Time passed and I didn’t really hear anything, so I kind of thought my initial instinct – that Winslet left her philandering husband – was not on target. But it was on target. Rebecca and Sam have been seeing each other this whole time:

She’s the beautiful English actress who was blamed for the breakdown of Kate Winslet’s marriage to film director Sam Mendes. Now, 18 months after being implicated as the ‘other woman’, it has been revealed that Rebecca Hall, daughter of veteran theatre director Sir Peter Hall, is dating the Oscar-winning film director.

A spokesman for Mendes last night confirmed he was romantically involved with Miss Hall, 29, saying: ‘It’s true they are in a relationship.’

A source close to the star added: ‘They are dating and have been for some time. I can’t put an exact date on it, but certainly nothing happened until after Sam’s marriage was over.’

The couple are believed to be spending time together in London where Mendes, 46, is directing the new James Bond film Skyfall. News of their relationship comes 18 months after Miss Hall was blamed for the collapse of Mendes’ six-year marriage to Titanic actress Miss Winslet.

At the time it was claimed Miss Winslet ended the marriage after growing tired of her husband’s closeness to Cambridge-educated Miss Hall, whose father Sir Peter founded the Royal Shakespeare Company. But sources close to Mendes, who has an eight-year-old son Joe with his ex-wife, insisted the couple were nothing more than friends.

Miss Hall first met Mendes – who won an Oscar for his 1999 debut film American Beauty – on the set of her film, Starter For 10, where he was executive producer. He later cast her in two of his plays, a move that was said to have infuriated Miss Winslet. A spokesman for Miss Hall was unavailable for comment.

[From The Mail]

Shady. Totally shady. Of course, it’s totally possible that Sam and Rebecca were “just friends” while Sam was a married man and that once he found himself single, his relationship with Rebecca progressed romantically. But in my mind, it’s far more likely that Sam was either having an emotional or physical affair with Hall, and Kate simply had enough. I’m also saying the “affair” possibility is more likely because Hall looks so much like Rachel Weisz, who Sam was dating before Kate (Kate reportedly “stole” Sam from Weisz).

Photos courtesy of WENN.

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Aug 9
'10
Leo DiCaprio on Kate Winslet: “Hollywood can be a killer for marriages”

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I recently watched Revolutionary Road, and it took me a while to finally rent it as I’d heard that it was depressing. It was a real downer, but it also felt like a brutally honest film, one in which the color had gone out of a woman’s life and subsequently her marriage. (It bothered me that the children were shown so infrequently in the movie, but they were peripheral to the characters’ lives and I guess it made sense in that context.) The arguments were frustrating and I thought the performances by all the main characters were superb.

Leo recently commented in a kind of vague but telling way about the fact that Kate’s marriage to their director for the film, Sam Mendes, has ended. He said that “Hollywood and this movie business can be a killer for marriages.” Is Leo giving us hints that he’s not the marrying type? I think he’s already demonstrated that. Is he hinting that he knows more about the end of Kate and Sam’s relationship? It’s hard to tell, but Kate was gushing about how much she loved Leo when she was winning awards for that film, and called him more like her husband than Mendes. I never bought the rumors that these two were secret lovers, but they do admit that they’re close friends and I’m sure Kate confided in Leo about her relationship. Here’s more:

The Oscar-winning actress was so disturbed by the relaxed attitude of her husband Sam Mendes – who she is now separated from — to the raunchy scenes in 2008 film Revolutionary Road it made her question her marriage.

“It was certainly a difficult time. She was really worried that Sam wasn’t bothered by the fact that his wife was making out with another guy right in front of her,” Leo said. “I told her it was only acting, but she kept on saying, ‘This is really weird.’

“When Sam started telling her exactly how to have sex with me she didn’t like it at all. She was freaking out because she was supposed to be having sex with her best friend — me — while her husband directed. But I didn’t find it weird at all. It didn’t bother me, because that’s part of acting.”

Kate and Sam — who married in secret in the Caribbean in May 2003 — split in March by “mutual agreement” and Leonardo thinks Hollywood was responsible for the death of their marriage.

“She loved being a wife,” he said. “Some people are meant to be married and I think Kate’s one of them, but Hollywood and this movie business can be a killer for marriages.”

Shortly after their split it was reported Kate and Sam had a trial separation in 2009 after falling out while working together on Revolutionary Road.

[From Showbiz Spy]

That’s sweet that Leo called Kate his best friend! A couple of weeks ago we reported on the rumor that Kate had hooked up with a hot male model who worked for Burberry, among other high end designers. Kate was since photographed out with the guy while he was conveniently jogging shirtless, semi-confirming the rumors. I’m sure she doesn’t mind her estranged husband, who was rumored to be getting hot and heavy with a young actress, seeing those photos. Kate and her husband announced their split in March after seven years and a child together. (Kate also has a daughter from her first marriage.) As far as I can tell they have not officially filed for divorce yet. Maybe that’s coming now that Kate has so publicly stepped out with a new man.

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Kate, Leo and Sam Mendes on December 15, 2008. Credit: WENN.

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Apr 6
'10
Despite nasty rumors, Kate Winslet & Sam Mendes are keeping it cordial

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I think this is what divorcing couples should aim for – forget the bullsh-t, and just focus on the kids and having a cordial relationship. Easier said than done, I know. But here are Sam Mendes and Kate Winslet giving it the old college try today, as they take their kids to school in New York. This photo op comes not a moment too soon, because the British tabloids (and to a lesser extent, the American tabloids) had Winslet in a state of frenzy, sobbing on Emma Thompson’s shoulder and screaming at the ocean, all while trying to seduce her dearest friend, Leo DiCaprio. Meanwhile, Sam Mendes was portrayed as a douche who dumped his beautiful wife for either a younger version (Rebecca Hall) or the old girlfriend who he just couldn’t stop thinking about (Rachel Weisz). Here’s more:

She’s has an Oscar to her name but Kate Winslet’s acting skills were really put to the test as she reunited with estranged husband Sam Mendes today. The 34-year-old managed to raise a convincing smile as the pair staged a united front for the sake of the children.

She emerged from her New York apartment holding the hand of her nine-year-old Mia, from her first marriage to assistant director Jim Threapleton. Director Sam, 44, followed close behind with their son Joe, 6, in tow.

The pair piled into the same car and proceeded to drop the children to school.

It is the first time they have been seen together since they announced the end of their almost seven year marriage last month.

The triplex property, where they lived for six years, is in the city’s affluent Chelsea district and is said to have been put on the market for £3.9million. Sam is believed to be living in an office that he has in the building, while Kate and the two children have remained in the three-bedroom, three-storey flat at the top of the building.

Kate has spoken of her desire to move back to England to be closer to friends and family, but has been staying in Manhattan while she films Mildred Pierce, a mini series for the HBO channel.

The five-part series is based on the the 1941 Jame M. Cain novel about a woman who leaves her unemployed husband and re-builds her life.

Kate has maintained a dignified silence since her split from Sam, but on Saturday, the Daily Mail’s Katie Nicholl reported that she is angry that he has got back in touch with his ex-girlfriend Rachel Weisz.

Sam has been widely tipped to direct the new James Bond movie and, according to industry sources, is determined to cast Rachel, 40, as one of the villains.

A source said: ‘As soon as Kate and Sam split, he was on the phone asking Rachel if she was interested in doing the movie. Rachel has always been persona non grata in the Winslet-Mendes household, and Kate went ballistic when she heard that Sam wanted to hire her.’

‘Sam has wanted to work with Rachel for ages, but Kate would not allow it. Although they ran in the same Hollywood circles, they avoided each other.’

[From The Daily Mail]

This joint appearance makes me like Sam and Kate even more, and it makes me question so many of the reports about Sam cheating on Kate. Now, he could have really cheated on her – but if he did, he and Kate are working through it with grace. They look cute with their kids too.

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Kate, Sam and the kids on April 6, 2010 in New York. Credit: INFphoto.com.

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Mar 18
'10
Sam Mendes denies cheating on Kate Winslet, Kate’s in “meltdown”
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It feels like Adultery Central here lately. Are you getting sick of it? I am, a little. I had to break the news to my mom last night about Sandra Bullock and Jesse and Bombshell, and she almost started crying. I enjoy a good, juicy scandal, but sometimes I do really feel for these people. Take Kate Winslet, for example. While most of us, in the wake of Kate and Sam’s split, were and are like, “Kate and Leo Forever” and hoping that they’ll find their way to each other, we’ve had to deal with something more likely. What’s most likely is that Sam was bonin’ Rebecca Hall, as the British tabloids have been reporting for a couple of days. Here’s one take on the story, from The Daily Mail:

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Kate Winslet is set to move back to England after the breakdown of her second marriage, she has told close friends. The Oscar winner, 34, is said to be in ‘turmoil’ about the split with director Sam Mendes and is pondering a move back from New York, where she has lived for nearly seven years, to be close to her friends and family.

A source close to the mother-of-two said: ‘Kate is in meltdown mode and doesn’t know quite what to do. The people she’s close to in New York are mums in schools but she thinks that will all change and her real friends – Emma Thompson, her sister Anna and her parents – are all over here. Kate feels she needs a support system, but she is torn because doesn’t want to disrupt her kids and is able to be very low key in New York.’

Miss Winslet will shortly return to filming her new HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce in the States. As the Mail told yesterday, the blonde star had become ‘frustrated’ with Mendes’ close friendship with English actress Rebecca Hall, 27.

Mendes, 44, had spent the past year working with Miss Hall in London and New York on dual theatre productions of The Cherry Orchard and A Winter’s Tale for the Bridge Project. And Miss Hall has been a ‘shoulder to cry on’ for Mendes as his marriage to Miss Winslet crumbled.

Speaking about Miss Hall’s friendship with Mendes, a source close to Miss Winslet said: ‘When Kate found out that Sam had grown close to Rebecca she was upset. Rebecca is totally Sam’s type – a thespian mix of brains and beauty.’

A source close to Mendes confirmed to the Daily Mail: ‘Sam and Rebecca are good friends, of course they are, they have spent the better part of a year working together on the Bridge Project. But to insinuate that there is anything further in the friendship is taking it too far.’

Meanwhile, others have claimed that Miss Winslet split from Mendes, 44, after he told her he could never be with just one woman for the rest of his life.

Miss Winslet was apparently left in tears after the noted theatre and film director told her in a frank conversation that he did not believe in having just one relationship for the rest of his life.

A close friend of the actress told the Mail: ‘Sam had been really withdrawn and had shut himself away from her. They then had this big talk and he told her ‘people can’t be inspired by just one relationship. For me, it’s never going to be about one relationship… life is a series of relationships.’ Kate told him ‘For me it is, that’s what I want’, but Sam replied ‘Well, that’s not what I want’ and they both knew the marriage could not go on, it was hopeless.’

‘Kate did not want to break up, she had been trying her best to keep things together for months, but in the end it was just too much.’

The couple have a son Joe, six, and Kate’s nine-year-old daughter by her first marriage also lives with them in New York. The children are currently with the star as she holidays with Emma Thompson in Puerto Vallerta in Mexico.

[From The Daily Mail]

Call me crazy, but I think The Mail’s version of events sounds the most plausible of any scenario discussed so far. Did Sam cheat on Kate with Rebecca? I don’t know, and neither does Kate. But she suspected something, and I could totally see Sam trying to talk his way out of the marriage by saying some crap about “not being in one relationship for life” or whatever. Blech.

Meanwhile, however, Rebecca Hall is doing some damage control. I guess she doesn’t want to be painted as a homewrecker? Probably. A friend of Rebecca told Gatecrasher, “Yes, they know each other, but that’s about it. Rebecca has absolutely nothing to do with their split…she’s friends with Kate, too. She thinks they are both wonderful people, and it’s just not appropriate to look towards Rebecca as the reason [for the split]. This is between Sam and Kate.” Oh, and Sam Mendes’ rep denied the rumored affair too, telling media outlets, “There is absolutely no truth to this. Sam and Rebecca are professional colleagues. That’s it.”

And in one last sad theory, Us Weekly is still ringing the “It’s All Kate’s Fault” bell, painting her a career-crazed ball breaker. Us Weekly has Sam telling friends that Kate was “overbearing” and that he was going “stir-crazy” in the marriage, while they have Kate telling Sam, “Your career is not more important than mine.” Burn her!

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Mar 17
'10
Did Rebecca Hall “homewreck” Kate Winslet’s marriage?
 Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio at the 'Revolutionary Road' film premiere in London

Okay, this is the gossip I’ve been waiting for ever since Kate Winslet and Sam Mendes’ sudden split announcement. Yesterday, we heard some bullsh-t about how Sam and Kate’s marriage started failing because they worked together on a film about a failing marriage. It just didn’t seem true to me. It felt like there was something more. The Daily Mail also claimed that Sam was “bored”. Bored with work, bored with his marriage, et cetera. Which started to sound a little more likely. Because once you add “boredom” into the mix, “someone else” might be floating around too. Which is exactly what OK! UK is reporting. First they try to play it like Kate is leaning on Leonardo DiCaprio, and that of course, they may be hitting it in the near future. But then at the end, we get a taste of something a little bit juicier… Sam Mendes and Rebecca Hall. This is what I was waiting for.

LEONARDO DiCaprio is supporting Kate Winslet during her marriage split. Actress Kate Winslet has turned to her Titanic co-star and best friend Leonardo DiCaprio for support during her separation from husband Sam Mendes.

The trio worked together on 2008 movie Revolutionary Road, which is ironically about a marriage break down, and she is said to be relying on his support to get through this difficult time.

A source told The Sun: “Leonardo and Kate have been like brother and sister since they starred in Titanic together. And since Kate’s marriage problems started, around the time they were filming Revolutionary Road, they’ve got closer again. Kate feels like she can tell Leonardo anything.

“They were thrust into stardom together and were the only people who knew what the other was going through. He’s been a rock for her.”

While Kate – who is currently holidaying in Mexico with her two children, six-year-old son Joe and Mia, her nine-year-old daughter from her marriage to Jim Threapleton – has a close friendship with Leonardo, Sam is relying on his actress friend Rebecca Hall for support.

It has been claimed that the end of their six-year marriage came about after a row over conflicting work schedules, with 44-year-old Sam lined up to direct the new James Bond film in London and Kate, 34, planning to star in a US TV comedy show.

Kate and Sam, who married in May 2003, announced their split on Monday but friends claim they have been living apart for several months.

[From OK! Magazine UK]

For those who don’t recognize Rebecca Hall’s name, here’s her IMDB page. She was Vicky in Vicky Christina Barcelona, and she played David Frost’s girlfriend in Frost/Nixon. I think she’s a really wonderful young actress (she‘s 27 years old), and she’s very, very pretty – in a classy, Laura Linney-way. Or, like a young Rachel Weisz, who Sam dated before Kate Winslet. So, yes, my theory is that Rebecca and Sam are hitting it, or will be hitting it soon, and that Rebecca was likely a factor in Kate and Sam’s split. We’ll see if I’m right. Oh, here’s more about the situation from The Daily Mail.

Kate Winslet had grown increasingly frustrated with her husband Sam Mendes’s friendship with the young actress Rebecca Hall, friends claimed last night. Miss Hall, 27, daughter of theatre director Sir Peter Hall and opera singer Maria Ewing, provided Mendes with a ‘shoulder to cry on’ as his six-year marriage was on the verge of collapse.

Friends of 44-year-old Mendes last night claimed the pair were just good friends who had spent the past year working together on theatre projects in London and New York. But sources close to Miss Winslet said she was unhappy with their closeness.

Miss Hall first met Mendes while making her film debut in 2006 on Starter For 10, where he was executive producer, and they were photographed together at one of the premieres. They then worked together last summer when Mendes cast Miss Hall in two productions in New York and London as part of his Bridge Project theatre company.

They enjoyed socialising together and her performances were critically acclaimed.

Speaking about Miss Hall’s friendship with Mendes, a source close to Miss Winslet said: ‘When Kate found out that Sam had grown close to Rebecca she was upset. Rebecca is totally Sam’s type – a thespian mix of brains and beauty.’

A source close to Mendes confirmed to the Daily Mail: ‘Sam and Rebecca are good friends, of course they are, they have spent the better part of a year working together on the Bridge Project. But to insinuate that there is anything further in the friendship is taking it too far.’

A spokesman for Miss Hall also confirmed that she is friends with Mendes.

Miss Hall was born in London and privately educated at £29,250-a-year Roedean School in West Sussex before going on to St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. She dropped out after two years to become an actress.

[From The Daily Mail]

Yeah. I think this is happening. What a bastard. As for Leo and Kate… here’s hoping!

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Mar 16
'10
Kate Winslet & Sam Mendes split: what went wrong?
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I hadn’t checked the British tabloids this morning, temporarily forgetting that there was a big, juicy split amongst a popular and prominent British couple – Kate Winslet and Sam Mendes. The UK tabloids are all over the split, trying to out-do each other with stories about “the signs” that Kate and Sam were over each other, and how they were never going to make it. Many seem to point to Sam and Kate finally working together as director and actress in Revolutionary Road as the catalyst for their marriage implosion. People has a run down of some of the newspapers/tabloids:

As news broke of Kate Winslet and Sam Mendes’s amicable split Monday, the couple was thousands of miles apart.

The distance underscored what the pair said Monday through their lawyers – “that they separated earlier this year.” The Oscar-winning actress was with friends and her children in Mexico (where the U.K newspaper The Sun pictured her recreating the arms-out Titanic pose on an inflatable dinghy). Mendes, 44, was reportedly with friends in New England.

They were seen in public together at the Wimbledon tennis tournament in the summer of 2009. Then last week, he was back in England visiting the National Theatre where he was in the audience of London Assurance, a source confirms.

Winslet was noticeably solo at this year’s series of award ceremonies, including the BAFTAs in London and the Oscars in L.A. Her red carpet appearances were in stark contrast to the previous award season when the couple was ubiquitous on the red carpets and, she, on the winners’ podiums.

In fact, during her 2009 Golden Globe victory best actress for her role in Mendes’s Revolutionary Road, Winslet called him “babe,” and enthusiastically thanked him. She said at the time, “[I] loved every second of working with you and it’s made me love you more.”

Now the British papers are abuzz that it was during the filming of Revolutionary Road that strains in their marriage began. The film happens to be about a couple in a disintegrating marriage.

Perhaps Mendes unwittingly gave a clue to the downside of living and working together when that same January, he told The Daily Telegraph it was “exhilarating” working with his wife, but, “I tend to cut off at the end of the day and watch a baseball game or something. I don’t like to bring work home. Kate is the opposite. So I just had to change my ways because it’s what she needed and my goal was to get the best performance I possibly could out of her and if she needed to talk about it, then that was my job, too.”

[From People]

I’m left with the impression that they broke up because Kate wouldn’t shut up. Is this fair? No. Is it true? Maybe. The Daily Mail did an in-depth report about the split, and they had some different quotes about the breakup:

A friend of 34-year-old Miss Winslet said she now plans to divorce Mendes, who is ten years her senior, saying: ‘That’s it, it is final.’

A source close to Mendes explained the break-up by saying: ‘He became bored working on his latest theatrical project, and he took that boredom home with him. And that led to the spark being taken out of their marriage.’

Mendes and Miss Winslet, both Academy Award winners, were seen as one of the movie world’s golden couples. The actress had taken the last 12 months off work following her Oscar success in The Reader, supposedly to spend time with her family. But the pair had not been seen in public together since an appearance at Wimbledon last summer and Miss Winslet had claimed Mendes was at home ‘babysitting’ when she attended the Baftas and Oscars alone.

The couple are keen to avoid an unseemly court battle of the custody of their child and their estimated £30million joint fortune.

The friend added: ‘Kate is devastated. She thought their marriage was for ever and now she has two children from two marriages and both are not living with their fathers.’

A source close to the couple added last night: ‘Things were extremely rough to say the least recently. Things went downhill after Revolutionary Road.’

[From The Daily Mail]

So, they split because Sam was a bored, grumpy bastard? You know what? I’m going to go out on a limb and say that I think there’s a lot more to this split than what is being discussed publicly. I don’t buy the whole “well, they worked on a movie about a bad marriage, so that’s why they split” explanation. I’m betting one or both of them has someone else.

The Frisky is running a piece about who Kate should date now. The candidates: Leo (obviously), Jeremy Renner (bad fit, in my opinion), Jake Gyllenhaal (too young, I think), Ryan Gosling (same, too young, but he would be game), Jennifer Aniston (ugh, Kate could do so much better), Idris Elba (YES!!!) and George Clooney (DOUBLE YES, he should be so lucky) amongst others.

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Mar 15
'10
Kate Winslet & husband Sam Mendes call it quits after 7 years
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Oh, snap! Here’s a split I didn’t see coming. Us Weekly has confirmation that Oscar winners Kate Winslet & Sam Mendes are calling it quits. They were married in 2003, and they have one child together, son Joe, who is 6 years old. Kate also has a daughter with her first husband, daughter Mia, who is 9. Mendes won the Best Director Oscar for his first feature film, American Beauty, in 2000. Kate won her first Oscar last year, for her performance in The Reader.

Kate Winslet has split from her husband, film director Sam Mendes.

In a statement, London-based Schillings law firm tells UsMagazine.com: “Kate and Sam are saddened to announce that they separated earlier this year. The split is entirely amicable and is by mutual agreement. Both parties are fully committed to the future joint parenting of their children. They ask that the media respect the privacy of the family.”

Winslet wed Mendes in 2003. They have a son Joe, 6.

She was previously wed to Jim Threapleton, with whom she has a daughter, Mia, 9.

[From Us Weekly]

This is sad. I thought they were a really solid, grounded couple. Although, now that we can look back, maybe there were signs that they were having problems? Kate is in the middle of taking some time off from Hollywood to focus on her family. And Kate has always been pretty honest about her struggles as a working mother, and the time away from her husband and kids while she’s working. As far as Sam goes, I really don’t know that much about him. Is he capable of cheating on Kate? Maybe. Is she capable of cheating on him? Maybe. We’ll see if there are any more scandals with this couple yet to come.

Oh my God, do you think she and Leonardo will finally find their way to each other?!?

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