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Kate Winslet's Passionate Journey Bringing Lee Miller's Story To Screen

Kate Winslet, left, and Andrea Riseborough attend the special screening of "Lee" on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Kate Winslet embarked on a nearly 10-year journey to bring the extraordinary story of Lee Miller to the big screen, a tale that opens nationwide this Friday. Miller, an American photographer turned war correspondent for British Vogue during World War II, captured the aftermath of conflict in Europe with her lens, including iconic images like the one in Hitler's bathtub in Munich.

Before her wartime experiences, Miller had already lived a multifaceted life as a model and muse to surrealists. Despite battling alcoholism, PTSD, and past trauma, she fearlessly documented the realities of war in Eastern Europe, driven by a compulsion to be a voice for the victims.

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