Kate Winslet portrays World War II photographer Lee Miller in the new 'Lee' trailer.
, shows Winslet struggling to hold a camera as bombs explode around her. Wearing a soldier’s helmet, she looks shaken and scared as she questions her life choices in voiceover: “Why does it matter? They’re just pictures.” But the emotion on her face and the trauma she subjects herself to for the pictures suggests the film, which opens in theaters on Sept. 27, will present a nuanced portrait of the photographer.
“You think I went to war so people would know my name?” she pointedly asks a reporter. Then the clip shows a montage of the ups and downs of Miller’s life up until the war, including news footage that makes her decide to go to the frontlines to document what’s happening. “Even when I wanted to look away,” she says, as footage of sad and scared people flicker across the screen, “I knew I couldn’t.
In addition to Winslet, the film features Josh O’Connor, Andrea Riseborough, Andy Samberg, Alexander Skarsgård, and Marion Cotillard. Cinematographer Ellen Kuras makes her feature directorial debut with the film, which is based on Antony Penrose’s 1988 bookDaniel Radcliffe Responds to J.K. Rowling's Anti-Trans Rhetoric: 'It Makes Me Really Sad'that getting it made was difficult since she encountered many men who seemed apathetic and even hostile toward the production.
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