A trailer has offered fans a first glimpse at Kate Winslet as trailblazing photojournalist, model and muse Lee Miller in her new film, Lee.
A model turned photographer and war correspondent, Elizabeth ‘Lee’ Miller's remarkable life traversed the glamour of 1920s New York and Paris before witnessing the harrowing Nazi concentration camps of Buchenwald and Dachau. The film, which is due for release later this year, recounts her journey as a pioneering war correspondent and photographer for British Vogue during World War II.
Her life was a dazzling reflection of a multifarious century. In this feature from February 2019 issue, Whitney Scharer explores the true story behind the blockbuster
Directed by Ellen Kuras (best known for her cinematography on films and documentaries including Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Pretend It’s a City), the star-studded cast also includes Alexandar Skarsgård as Roland Penrose, Miller’s husband (a respected artist, historian and poet in his own right) and The Crown’s Josh O’Connor as a young journalist interviewing Lee.
The story will chart Miller’s career across a 10-year period from around 1938, swapping her days as a cover star to life behind the camera. Working as a war correspondent for Vogue during WWII, Miller documented the liberation of Paris and was one of the first photographers to reveal the horrors of the Holocaust. She also posed for a photograph in the bathtub of Hitler’s Munich flat (after it was commandeered by American forces), washing off the mud of Dachau on the day of his suicide in 1945.
Filming for the drama hit headlines when images from the set were publishing showing Kate Winslet, 46, costumed in a helmet and military gear as she runs across a barbed wire-strewn battleground. Lee garnered further attention following reports that its Oscar-winning star was taken to Dubrovnik Hospital as a ‘precaution’, having sustained a leg injury after slipping during filming in the Croatian village of Kupari.
