Even as bombs and bullets fly around her, Kate Winslet also has to battle sexism among Second World War correspondents in the latest trailer for Lee.
In Ellen Kuras’ biopic for Sky, Winslet portrays real-life American war correspondent Lee Miller.
“I just want to do my part. Why should the men get to decide what this is?,” Winslet, wanting to document Nazi atrocities, asks her Vogue editor (Andrea Riseborough) early on in the trailer.
Surmounting the odds arrayed against women looking to work on the front lines as war correspondents, Lee did get to the capture key wartime images for British Vogue, including the destruction caused by the Blitz and the aftermath of D-Day. But Lee paid a personal price to witness brutal warfare firsthand as an accredited U.S. journalist.
“Even when I wanted to look away, I knew I couldn’t,” Winslet’s character says at one point as grisly war images are etched all over her wary face. Her voice is from 1977 when an older Lee is recounting her fearless wartime career to Tony, a young journalist played by Josh O’Connor, through flashbacks.
The latest trailer also has Andy Samberg playing Life Magazine photographer David E. Scherman, Alexander Skarsgård as the English Surrealist painter and photographer Roland Penrose, and Marion Cotillard playing Solange D’Ayen, the fashion director of French Vogue and a friend of Lee.
The Sky Original film will debut in British and Irish cinemas on Sept. 13, 2024