Kate Winslet insisted her film about Lee Miller must have female director

Kate Winslet insisted her film about Lee Miller must have female director

Cinematographer Ellen Kuras, who was hired by actor to make her directorial debut, says biopic of photojournalist shows woman plunged ‘into heart of darkness’

Kate Winslet insisted that her new film, in which she plays the fearless photojournalist Lee Miller, must have a female director.

The Oscar-winning actor, who is the lead star and co-producer of Lee, released in cinemas this week, wanted to portray American Miller as “a truth-seeker and a truth-teller”. She felt that Miller brought a particular sensitivity when she reported on the battle of Saint-Malo in the second world war, field hospitals in Normandy and the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps.

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