By
Baz Bamigboye
Last updated at 7:50 AM on 13th January 2012
Kate Winslet is reuniting with two of her most dashing leading men — Leonardo DiCaprio and Kenneth Branagh.
The Oscar-winning actress will work with DiCaprio this spring, promoting the spectacular 3D version of James Cameron’s Titantic, which was first released 15 years ago. Then she will work on a new movie with Branagh.
She played Ophelia on Branagh’s screen version of Hamlet back in 1996. The two have remained friends, and now Branagh has recruited her to star in a film based on Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Burrows’s best-selling novel The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society, which will start filming in mid-March.
Purple patch: Kate Winslet as Rose in Titanic
Kate will play writer Juliet Ashton, who penned columns for a magazine during World War II. After the war, she is contacted by Channel Islander Dawsey Adams and, as their correspondence continues, the story unfolds of how a book society was established on Nazi-occupied Guernsey to fool curfew patrols.
Branagh has been involved in the film’s pre-production in between enjoying awards season heat thanks to his portrait of Laurence Olivier in Simon Curtis’s movie My Week With Marilyn.
The film’s up for three Golden Globe statuettes this Sunday for best film (comedy or musical); best actress (in a comedy or musical) for Michelle Williams; and best supporting actor for Branagh (who’s also in the running for Bafta and Oscar nominations).
Kate could also taste Golden Globe glory. She flies out to Los Angeles later today to prepare for Sunday’s ceremony, where she’s up for the best actress honour for the film Carnage and best actress in a mini-series for HBO’s Mildred Pierce.
Kate saw Titantic 3D footage on Wednesday afternoon and she’s likely to attend the movie’s London premiere in late March.
Titanic producer Jon Landau showed DiCaprio footage late last year and, by all accounts, the actor was knocked out, all over again, by his leading lady. ‘He watched the scene where Kate arrives at the dock and steps out the car and he said to me: “She’s so beautiful,” ’ Landau told me.
He added: ‘Leo’s right, but screen beauty goes beyond the physicality. It’s what the actor brings to the character, and she embodies the character of Rose.’
Landau also revealed that when Kate originally auditioned for the role, she sent director Cameron a note along with a single rose. ‘She signed it “Rose Winslet”,’ he said. She got the part.
Titantic 3D will have one-off showings at 60 screens around the country on Valentine’s Day evening. It’s main release will be on April 6.
It will make a fortune at the box office all over again. The stars could reap a percentage of that bounty under the terms of their original contracts
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