14 DAY TRIAL // It’s usually the kind of thing one keeps locked away behind a glass panel to avoid dust and people’s fingers from messing it up. However, for Best Actress winner Kate Winslet, her Oscar statuette is just another decoration piece she keeps in her bathroom. The reason for that, as she explains in a recent interview cited by People magazine, is that, this way, all her friends get the chance to touch it and hold it without as much as having to tell her about it.
Many movies often include the cliché story of an aspiring actress or actor, rehearsing in front of the mirror with a make-believe Oscar statuette and saying the now famous speech “I’d like to thank the Academy, my mother and all my fans.” Visitors at Winslet’s house can actually do that and they don’t even have to take a vase or some other similar object to pretend it’s an Oscar, as they can do so with the star’s own statuette, won at last year’s awards ceremony.
“Last year’s Best Actress winner, for The Reader, keeps her golden statuette in the bathroom so guests ‘can sneakily have a little [hold] and put it back down again,’ she told the U.K. TV show GMTV on Monday. Her reason for storing it there, she says, is ‘because basically everybody wants to touch it, everybody wants to hold it and go ‘Oh, my gosh,’ and ‘How heavy is it?’ So I figured if I put it [in there], then people can avoid the whole, ‘Where’s your Oscar?’ thing’,” People writes, citing Kate Winslet herself.
In the same interview, the star also admits to being a huge fan of the awards season because it allows her to show off her favorite creations from her favorite designers. Walking down the red carpet is truly the kind of experience that women simply must love, she believes. “It’s great to wear lovely dresses and to just experience those moments of dress up, especially as a mum, because you get so few moments to feel good in your own skin and wear a lovely gown,” Winslet adds.
In all fairness, Winslet is being modest when she says the awards season is the only time when she’s allowed to look good. The British actress was voted “yummiest mum” number 4 of 2009, while also securing a top spot on People’s best dressed list, right next to First Lady Michelle Obama.