In addition to Winslet as Miller, the cast includes Alexander Skarsgård as Roland Penrose, Andy Samberg as Life magazine photographer David Scherman, and Marion Cotillard as Solange d’Ayen, Miller’s friend and fashion editor of French Vogue.

As a middle-aged woman, Lee refused to be remembered as a model, covergirl and male artists’ muse (she was the subject of the avant-garde photographer Man Ray ). She defied the expectations and rules of the time and travelled to Europe to report from the frontline. She challenged the patriarchy and paved the way in a male-dominated space.

Kate Winslet has recently shared her two cents on sexism while filming new movie, Lee.Speaking to Vogue, the Titanic star revealed she secured financing for her new movie about

One of the animating questions in a film about a war correspondent is “why?” Why do they do what they do? Why do they keep pushing, keep searching, keep exposing themselves to the suffering of war? It’s the primary question at the center of the new biopic “Lee,

Having earned seven Academy Award nominations and won Best Actress for The Reader (2008), Kate Winslet may well find herself in the running again for Lee, a powerful drama detailing

There is a great movie in Lee – for instance, how Lee Miller's photographs intimately depicted women's realities after the war, from the head-shavings of alleged nazi collaborators to the unpunished sexual assaults on women by both sides of the conflict. However, it just needed a bit more bravery to bring it out and stick with it.