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Speaker 1: Great to flick with ben o'she good morning, guys. Do

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Speaker 1: you love a true story? I love a true story.

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Speaker 1: You can't write better than true stories? Yeah, well, especially

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Speaker 1: this story. It's so wild. Do you would think this

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Speaker 1: has come from the mind of a Hollywood screenwriter? The

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Speaker 1: story of Lee Miller, who a lot of people probably

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Speaker 1: wouldn't be aware of, and certainly during her own lifetime,

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Speaker 1: a lot of people didn't know who she was. She

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Speaker 1: kind of became renowned and getting the respects she deserved

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Speaker 1: years after she'd died. So she was a war correspondent,

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Speaker 1: but many years before that, in the late nineteen twenties,

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Speaker 1: she was one of the most in demand models in

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Speaker 1: New York City. She was on the cover of American Vogue,

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Speaker 1: she was doing advertisements in the newspapers. She was, you know,

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Speaker 1: the Claudius Shiffer, the Cindy Crawfords in the late nineteen twenties.

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Speaker 1: But she she always I guess, was more attracted to

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Speaker 1: being behind the camera, being an artist. So as she

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Speaker 1: was getting a little bit older and the modeling jobs dried up,

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Speaker 1: she moved to Paris and fell in with a group

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Speaker 1: of I guess some of the greatest artists on the

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Speaker 1: planet at the time, people you may have heard of,

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Speaker 1: like Pablo Picasso was one of her mates. A Jean Cocteaux,

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Speaker 1: the great kind of French poet and filmmaker and playwright

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Speaker 1: and all of these kinds of people, right, and the

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Speaker 1: Dutchess Solage, who was the editor of French Vogue at

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Speaker 1: the time. So she moved in pretty fancies artisticle circle,

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Speaker 1: especially in those times. This was in the nineteen thirties

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Speaker 1: and the specter of war with Germany was starting to

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Speaker 1: grow in Europe. The Nazi movement was happening, and all

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Speaker 1: of these artists, especially in France, were looking at this

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Speaker 1: and going, oh gosh, this is a bit of a

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Speaker 1: concern here. She then marries an Englishman who's an artist

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Speaker 1: and a curator and an art gallery. She moves to

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Speaker 1: London just as the war starts, the Blitz is happening.

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Speaker 1: She's working for British Vogue, but she wants to do

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Speaker 1: something like she's you know, I can't do my bit,

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Speaker 1: but in British societies and so many roles that women

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Speaker 1: could do time, I want to donsis factory. Yeah exactly.

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Speaker 1: But she remembers saying in a minute. I'm an American citizen.

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Speaker 1: I don't have to do what I'm told by the

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Speaker 1: British government. So uses her American passport to convince people

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Speaker 1: to let her go to the front lines in France,

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Speaker 1: where she becomes a war correspondent, like and then once

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Speaker 1: she gets there, she has to convince the American army commanders.

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Speaker 1: You know, I know no women are allowed anywhere near

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Speaker 1: the front lines. I want to go there with my camera.

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Speaker 1: It was just it's hard to even explain how unheard

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Speaker 1: of that was at the time. And so then she

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Speaker 1: has done things like she's taken photos of what it

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Speaker 1: was like on the front line for the troops, taking

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Speaker 1: photos in the in the medical tense of what the

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Speaker 1: impacts of war. She captured the first ever image of

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Speaker 1: napalm being used on human population. She was one of

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Speaker 1: the first into the concentration camps after the fall of

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Speaker 1: hit and captured really the world's first images of the

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Speaker 1: horrors of some of those concentration camps. She talked her

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Speaker 1: way into Hitler's apartment at the end of the war,

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Speaker 1: just you know, like literally within hours of Hitler and

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Speaker 1: Hitler's bath and posed for a photo. So the stuff

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Speaker 1: that she has done is incredible. She's like all the

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Speaker 1: while kind of you know, sort of fiercely independent, giving

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Speaker 1: the middle finger to the patriarchy, all this kind of stuff.

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Speaker 1: And then she gets back to gets back to the

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Speaker 1: UK and gives all these photos to British Vogue and

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Speaker 1: they're like, well, you know what, the war has ended

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Speaker 1: and people kind of moved on, so we're not going

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Speaker 1: to publish these, you're kidding and so then and then

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Speaker 1: this is and then and then so she's refusing to

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Speaker 1: take no for an answer. The photos get sent to

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Speaker 1: American Vogue, where of course they remember her as a model.

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Speaker 1: These photos are incredible, they get published, but even still

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Speaker 1: they kind of just you know, after the end of

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Speaker 1: that dish, there's no Internet, the photos are forgotten about it.

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Speaker 1: And it's not until many years later, maybe twenty years later,

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Speaker 1: images in the attic that is like, holy cow, this

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Speaker 1: is what my mum. Didn't even realize that his mum

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Speaker 1: did it, and then has written this book based on

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Speaker 1: the life of his mum. He's done on his research,

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Speaker 1: and that's what the movie is based on. And now

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Speaker 1: Lee Miller is considered one of the greatest war correspondents

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Speaker 1: ever just then amazing, amazing legacy, And so who else

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Speaker 1: would you think would be perfect to play a character

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Speaker 1: like that. One of the greatest actresses Kate wins oschool winner,

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Speaker 1: and no one is better at bringing these real life

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Speaker 1: She's got that sort of fierce spirit, also vulnerable because

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Speaker 1: there's some stuff that happens in Lee Miller's childhood and

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Speaker 1: And so Kate Winslet, as you would expect, is phenomenal,

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Speaker 1: absolutely the best thing about this Other aspects of the

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Speaker 1: film maybe not so amazing, but purely because Kate Winslet

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Speaker 1: is so good. Everybody else kind of looks like trash,

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Speaker 1: including the great Alexander Scarsguard who plays her husband. Why

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Speaker 1: they cast him a Scandinavian bloke as an englishman, He's

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Speaker 1: still got a Scandinavian accent, doesn't sound like an English

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Speaker 1: gentleman at all. And then you've got Andy Samberg, who

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Speaker 1: people will know from Brooklyn ninety nine, who plays a

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Speaker 1: fellow war correspondent who becomes besties with Lee Miller. Look,

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Speaker 1: he's not a dramatic actor. He's funny. He's very funny,

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Speaker 1: and when he's telling jokeside film, he's amazing. But and

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Speaker 1: you can get away with that in some films when

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Speaker 1: you're acting in scenes heavy scenes of the Holocaust opposite

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Speaker 1: Kate Winslet, doesn't work. When you're there with the creed,

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Speaker 1: does not work at all. So that's a bit unfortunate.

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Speaker 1: So some of the casting decisions are not amazing. The

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Speaker 1: only actor who really stacks up next to Kate Winslet

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Speaker 1: is Marian Kotier, the French actress who plays Solange Duchess. Yes,

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Speaker 1: but you'd watch this for Kate Winslet's performance, and also

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Speaker 1: for the true story, which is incredible, and the pictures,

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Speaker 1: the pictures at the end of the film during the

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Speaker 1: closing credits just okay, crazy, what a groundbreaker? Oh yeah, incredible.

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Speaker 1: Well I don't even know what to say other than

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Speaker 1: just what are you giving it? Because it's three three stars.

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Speaker 1: Some of those some of those other performances let it

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Speaker 1: down a bit. But you know, Kate Winslet, if you

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Speaker 1: were just judging stars on Kate would be probably more

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Speaker 1: than three then thanks guys,