Kate Winslet plays highly respected World War II photographer Lee Miller in the trailer for the biopic Lee, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The film was directed by Ellen Kuras and will be released by Roadside Attractions and Vertical Entertainment in cinemas Sept. 27. Winslet stars as Miller, who began her career as a model before she became a photographer for Vogue, documenting World War II.
The Academy Award-winning actress is joined by Josh O'Connor (Antony Penrose, Miller's son), Marion Cotillard, Andrea Riseborough (British Vogue editor Audrey Withers), Andy Samberg (Life photographer David E. Scherman), Noémie Merlant (French performer Nusch Éluard) and Alexander Skarsgård (Roland Penrose, Miller's husband).
Kate Winslet as Lee Miller: model turned war correspondent
In the trailer, O'Connor as Antony asks a much older Lee (Winslet), “Do you want the world to know about you?”
She answers, “You think I went to war so people would know my name?”
Later in the video, Lee says, “Even when I wanted to look away, I knew I couldn't.”
The movie is Kuras' feature directorial debut. She previously directed television projects such as last year's Extrapolations and episodes of The Terminal List and Inventing Anna. Kuras also served as the cinematographer for films such as 2004's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and 2008's The Betrayal.
Liz Hannah, John Collee and Marion Hume served as scriptwriters using Antony Penrose's 1988 book The Lives of Lee Miller. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last September.
In September 2022, Winslet injured her back when she fell on set in Croatia, prompting her to take a break from filming. The actress was last seen in the HBO series The Regime as the autocratic chancellor Elena Vernham.
Lee Miller in World War II
Miller became Vogue's official war photographer at the outbreak of World War II when she and Roland Penrose were living in London as the bombings began. From December 1942, she was accredited as a war correspondent with the U.S. Army.
The photographer's first article for British Vogue about the nurses at an Oxford army base. She proceeded to take portraits of nurses across Europe, including the ones on the front lines and prisoners of war.
Her collaboration with Life correspondent and photographer David E. Scherman resulted in the iconic photograph of Miller in the bathtub of Adolf Hitler's Munich apartment. In the photograph, Miller had the shower hose lopped in the center behind her head with the dust of Dachau on her boots sullying Hitler's bathroom. The photograph was taken on April 30, 1945, coincidentally on the same day as Hitler's suicide.
After the war, Miller continued her work as a wartime photojournalist. She sent telegrams to British Vogue editor Audrey Withers, and urged her to publish the photographs she took of the Nazi concentration camps Dachau and Buchenwald. Miller did this after Edward R. Murrow's CBS broadcast from Buchenwald and Richard Dimbleby's BBC broadcast from inside Bergen-Belsen.
Miller's photographs and the CBS and BBC broadcasts were due to people's disbelief at the atrocities committed by the Nazis. Several other broadcasters used her photographs to show the public the things they saw during and immediately after the war. During World War II her work was shown to given an eyewitness account of the war's casualties.
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