Kate Winslet will soon be back on our screens playing Joanna Hoffman, a woman making her way in a male-dominated milieu with Steve Jobs. And she’s now eyeing another role based in reality, signing on to play American model, artist and war correspondent Elizabeth “Lee” Miller.
Production outfit Hopscotch Pictures is putting together the project, which is currently on the hunt for a director and writer. Whoever does write the script will base their work on her life and the defining moments of it, as detailed in son Antony Penrose’s biography The Lives Of Lee Miller.
Known for both her glamour and her mind, Miller was a muse and collaborator to the likes of Pablo Picasso and painter/photographer Man Ray, and, thanks to her early education in the technical aspects of photography, took over from the latter when he expressed a desire to concentrate on his other art. During World War II, she began a career as a photojournalist, documenting the Blitz and travelling to France shortly after D-Day where she witnessed the first recorded use of napalm and the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps in Germany.
Hers is certainly a life worth filming, and Winslet seems like the right choice to play her, but right now it’s in development. Winslet will, as mentioned, next be seen in **Steve Jobs **(out November 13) and will follow that with John Hillcoat’s crime thriller Triple 9, which lands in the US on February 19 but hasn’t yet found a UK release.