For fans who love both the cinema and the live theater, there has been more than a little excitement about
Julianne Moore's upcoming Broadway stint in
The Vertical Hour. The play is from the esteemed writer David Hare (
Plenty and the screenplay for
The Hours) and will be directed by theater pro and Oscar winner Sam Mendes (
American Beauty, Jarhead). Now we learn that we have
Kate Winslet to blame for this upcoming delight. In the new issue of
New York Magazine we read this delicious bit...
Moore had already passed on The Vertical Hour—although she found the play “brilliant,” she told Mendes that her filming schedule made it impossible to say yes. “And I thought, I shouldn’t have read it!” Moore groans at the memory. Then she bumped into Mendes’s wife, Kate Winslet, at the preschool the two actresses’ children attend, mentioned how disappointed she was, and Winslet fanned the project back to life.
Oh, the ways in which The Winslet continues to bless us all! We're definitely well into quadruple digits of reasons to love her.
