A profile on Kate Winslet

January 2, 2009 by Lance Carter

On her character in ‘The Reader’: “I didn’t try to make her sympathetic. I knew that would be a mistake — I knew it would be wrong to demand the sympathy of an audience. I’m playing a woman who is an SS guard. We’re not supposed to sympathize with SS guards. . . . But I knew that I had to understand her. I had to really understand her, to come to her in very profound and complicated ways and develop my own relationship with her.”