Academy Award winner Kate Winslet and The Dressmaker

Academy award winner Kate Winslet has revealed the hidden story behind her signing up to The Dressmaker because she read the script, was impressed by it and thought it was "bonkers". Kate has portrayed the role of Tilly Dunnage in the film adaptation of Rosalie Ham’s debut novel.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 20 November 2015.

As she says - the script felt "wild" and quite "liberating" and she found the tone of the movie completely out of the ordinary and refreshing.
The story is set in the Australia of the 1950s and is about a seamstress who returns to her rural hometown to investigate how she ended up being banished as a child.
The film is a black comedy that takes some dark detours. An example is Hugo Weaving who plays a cross-dressing policeman who gets arrested wearing a matador outfit.
Kate Winslet had decamped to Australia to film the movie, which is one of the country’s most successful box office hits in recent years. Apart from receiving critical acclaim, it has led the field at the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards with 12 nominations.
Getting the Australian accent was a challenge for Kate and she admitted that she occasionally struggled with mastering her character’s Australian accent.
The Dressmaker, which also stars Liam Hemsworth, is presently running in cinemas.

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