Kate Winslet believed that the small set they used helped them to develop their character's strained relationship. Hailing Winslet as "the best English-speaking film actress of her generation", David Edelstein of "New York" magazine wrote that "there isn't a banal moment in Winslet's performance—not a gesture, not a word". To avoid a scheduling conflict with "Revolutionary Road", Winslet turned down an offer to star in "The Reader". After her replacement Nicole Kidman left the project due to her pregnancy, Winslet was signed to it. Directed by Stephen Daldry, "The Reader" is based on Bernhard Schlink's novel "Der Vorleser" and is about Hanna
Kate Winslet She won the Screen Actors Guild and British Academy Film Award for Best Supporting Actress, and received nominations for the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award in the same category. Also in 1995, Winslet featured in the poorly received Disney film "A Kid in King Arthur's Court". Winslet had roles in two period dramas of 1996"Jude" and "Hamlet". As with her "Heavenly Creatures" part, Winslet's roles in these films were those of women with a "mad edge". In Michael Winterbottom's "Jude", based on the novel "Jude the Obscure" by Thomas Hardy, she played Sue Bridehead, a young woman with suffragette