Kate Winslet breaks the glass ceiling for war photographers

Kate Winslet in “Lee”.

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Even with bombs and bullets flying around her, Kate Winslet must fight sexism among World War II correspondents in the latest trailer for the film. lee.

In Ellen Kuras’ biopic for Sky, Winslet portrays the real-life American war correspondent Lee Miller.

“I just want to do my part. Why should men decide what that is?” asks Winslet, who wants to document the atrocities of the Nazis, her Fashion Editor (Andrea Riseborough) early in the trailer.

Although women who wanted to work as war correspondents on the front lines faced difficulties, Lee managed to capture important wartime images for British Vogueincluding the destruction of the Blitzkrieg and the aftermath of D-Day. But Lee paid a personal price for witnessing the brutal warfare first-hand as an accredited U.S. journalist.

“Even when I wanted to look away, I knew I couldn’t,” Winslet’s character says at one point, as gruesome war images etch themselves into her watchful face. Her voice is from 1977, when an older Lee Tony tells a young journalist, played by Josh O’Connor, in flashbacks about her fearless war career.

Andy Samberg can also be seen in the latest trailer Life Magazine photographer David E. Scherman, Alexander Skarsgård as English surrealist painter and photographer Roland Penrose and Marion Cotillard as Solange D’Ayen, the fashion director of French Vogue and a friend of Lee.

The Sky original film will premiere in UK and Irish cinemas on September 13, 2024.