14 DAY TRIAL // At the end of the month, Kate Winslet returns to the big screen opposite Michael Fassbender in the highly anticipated “Steve Jobs” biopic from director Danny Boyle, in which she plays the role of Joanna Hoffman.
She’s already done a couple of big interviews to promote it, mostly centering on how difficult it was for her to land the part (because she didn’t fit the bill), aging in Hollywood, beauty and staying grounded in an industry that’s known to derail many lives. Her latest is with Net-a-Porter’s The Edit.
Kate Winslet is too smart for therapy, mocked online
In The Edit interview, the Oscar-winning actress discusses the same topics mentioned above, but it’s one comment in particular that’s getting her some flack online: apparently, she considers herself too “smart” for therapy.
In between discussing body image, her career, her latest role and her big girl crush Shailene Woodley, with whom she worked on the “Divergent” films, Kate also admits that she tried therapy once.
She doesn’t say for what problem, but she does say this: “I tried therapy once and thought, ‘Oh God, I could outsmart you, goodbye.’ So I won’t bother with that again.”
As you may imagine, her comment did not fail to raise sneers from celebrity pundits, mostly for the assumption that therapy is some kind of game where patient and doctor size up against each other in terms of wits, or a competition to see who’s smarter.
It could very well be that her comment was taken out of context or that it didn’t translate well in writing, but it does sound like she’s saying only people with a lower IQ can or should do therapy.
Beauty and aging in Hollywood
The rest of the interview is less potentially controversial, with Kate discussing aging and beauty in Hollywood, and how different her public image is from who she is in real life.
Not surprisingly, she doesn’t consider herself a sex symbol and she laughs at the suggestion that she’s this glamourous lady in her day-to-day life. That’s just marketing, an image that was constructed for her, because, in reality, she is a wife and a mother of 3 who’s merely doing her best at juggling work with a busy personal life.
Speaking of work, “Steve Jobs” will be out on October 23. It also stars Seth Rogen and Jeff Bridges, and is based on a script by the acclaimed Aaron Sorkin, working off the Walter Isaacson best-selling book.