The long path to filming "Revolutionary Road"

By all accounts, the reason the movie got made at all is owing mostly to the drive and enthusiasm of Kate Winslet, who was taken with the script from the moment she read it. “I loved the emotional nakedness, the brutal honesty about what can sometimes happen in a marriage,” she said in an interview.

She began lobbying Leonardo DiCaprio, she recalled, after slipping him the script over coffee, and she also worked on Sam Mendes, the director. He was an easier sell in some ways, because he happens to be her husband. “I just told him, ‘Babe, you’ve got to do this,’ ” she said.

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