Kate Winslet thanks her Emmy for Best Actress for her work on “Mare of Easttown”. AP photo
Kate Winslet will do what will be her third series for HBO an adaptation of the recent best seller Confidencethe novel by the Argentine writer Hernán Díaz He grew up in Sweden and lives in New York.
Winslet was born from the creation of two successful series for the three-letter chain: Mildred Piercein 2011, e Easttown mare of the last year. Either way, she ended up getting an Emmy for Best Actress.
The plot
Confidence tells the story, in different voices and genres, of a wealthy financier who is unhappy with a novel featuring him and his wife and hires a secretary to write a ghost memo to set the record straight. The secretary, however, realizes that the financier is rewriting history and his wife’s place in it.
Story of a crime that heals and redeems. Mare of Easttown, Note of scenarios Revista Ñ
Actress and executive producer
Confidence just entered HBO’s development phase after the premium cable channel bought the rights to Diaz’s second novel, whose first book, In the distancebecame a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, no less.
Other projects
As the new HBO project begins to mature, towards the end of the year it will be seen Winslet inside Avatar 2under the orders of James Cameronthat is together again on a poster like it happened to them in the super hit (and box office) titanic.
She is also in pre-production for her starring role as model turned war photographer Elizabeth “Lee”. Miller in the independent drama lightby director Ellen Kuras.
As in “Titanic”, James Cameron and Kate Winslet meet again in “Avatar 2”.
A very special police
Mare Sheehan, that very peculiar police officer, is already an endearing character for Winslet. “I am amazed how the audience fell in love with this deeply flawed, chaotic, broken, fragmented and difficult woman. I loved her marks, scars and mistakes, and the fact that she doesn’t have an off switch or button. stop He only knows the ‘Let’s go!’ ”, defines the actress.
Kate Winslet in a scene from “Mare of Easttown”, the HBO drama.
“Not only did I have to totally hide in the character, but I also had to hide the story, keep the secret,” he said. “I’ve been hiding it since 2018, when I first read the script. My job was to take them on this horrendous journey and pray to God that they would eventually get ready to go up to the attic with me … “
Hernán Díaz, Argentina and exile …
In Confidence (Riverhead, 2022), Hernán Díaz puts these contrasting stories into dialogue and adds a little more tension with the perspective of a woman bent on separating reality from fiction. The result is a novel within a novel, spanning more than a century and becoming more and more exciting with each new revelation.
The Argentine writer -resident in New York-, Hernán Díaz.
Born in Buenos Aires, Hernán Diaz’s parents had to go into exile in Sweden fleeing the military dictatorship who took power on March 24, 1976; the boy was 2 years old.
His mother was a psychoanalyst and his father was a photographer, director and active member of a Trotskyist political group. Left militants, together they ran a bookshop with books that fell under the prohibition of the dictatorship.
From New York, where he lives, Díaz explained it this way in a recent note with the online literary site Interview:
“As a stubborn American, I am very interested in this nation’s ideas about itself. Confidence I was interested in the role that wealth plays in American national identity, that myth of the self-made man who stands alone through hard work and ingenuity“he said online.
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Source: Clarin
