As bombs and bullets fly around her, Kate Winslet must also contend with sexism from World War II correspondents in the latest trailer for Lee.
In Ellen Kuras’ biopic for Sky, Winslet plays real-life American war correspondent Lee Miller.
“I just want to do my part. Why should men decide what this is about?” asks Winslet, who wants to document Nazi atrocities. Vogue editor (Andrea Riseborough) at the beginning of the trailer.
Overcoming the obstacles faced by women seeking to work on the front lines as war correspondents, Lee managed to capture key images of the war for British Vogueincluding the destruction caused by the Blitz and the aftermath of D-Day. But Lee paid a personal price for witnessing a brutal war first-hand as an accredited American journalist.
“Even when I wanted to look away, I knew I couldn’t,” Winslet’s character says at one point, as gruesome wartime imagery is etched across her wary face. Her voice is that of 1977, when an older Lee recounts her courageous wartime career to Tony, a young journalist played by Josh O’Connor, through flashbacks.
The latest trailer also shows Andy Samberg playing Life Magazine photographer David E. Scherman, Alexander Skarsgård as English surrealist painter and photographer Roland Penrose, and Marion Cotillard as Solange D’Ayen, the fashion director of Vogue France and a friend of Lee.
The Sky original film will be released in UK and Irish cinemas on 13 September 2024
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