Kate Winslet’s compliment to Elizabeth Taylor in V magazine: ludicrous or gorgeous?

Kate Winslet is still promoting Contagion, which comes out this weekend. So basically, she is all up in our faces everywhere, including the latest cover of V Magazine (Issue #73), which was shot by Mario Testino. This issue of the magazine is called “The Heroes Issue,” so Winslet is all dolled up in an homage to the iconic Elizabeth Taylor while adorned in scarves, turbans, pearls and diamonds as a tribute to one of Taylor’s own infamous photo shoots.

On Nude Scenes: “I hate it! Listen make no mistake, I just get on it,” she says about baring it all on film. “I just go in and say ‘Oh f&*# let’s do it.’ and boom. If you complain about it or procrastinate it’s not going to go away. It’s a profoundly bizarre thing to do. As actors you talk about it all the time. You can literally be tangled in sheets, and you turn to the other actor and say ‘what the f&*# are we doing?’ Dear Mum, at work today I had so-and-so’s left nut sack pressed against my cheek. It’s sort of unethical if you think about it in those terms.”

On Her Acting Career: “I hope I am shutting myself over the characters I play for the rest of my life. Because the day I go ‘Oh yeah, that’s going to be a piece of pie’, why f&*#ing bother? If you do that, you do not learn. I hope I’m always learning something. So I won an Oscar. It’s amazing. I’ve got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That’s it, moving on.”