Lee Miller lived many lives. She modeled in New York City in the '20s, pioneered photographic techniques with Man Ray and pushed boundaries with her surrealist artwork in Paris in the '30s, but it's her stint as a war photographer for Vogue in the '40s that's the subject of new biopic Lee.
"We've got an iteration of the script where those things were explored, and there was a version of the script where we started with a much younger Lee," Kate Winslet, who plays Lee, explains to the Inside Total Film podcast and GamesRadar+. "There was even a question of, like, 'Can I get away with playing her that young? Should we cast somebody else?' But it just wouldn't have been possible to reveal that many versions of her life. That's for someone else to do in a 12-part miniseries on HBO, probably somewhere further down the line… We needed to get her to war, because that was the defining time in her life, and ultimately the story that we wanted to tell."
