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But the corset chucking will wait. She just wrapped an adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, due this fall from Gramercy, in which she plays Sue Brideshead, a more formidable young female character than most American scripts can provide.

"She's very strong-minded, determined. She doesn't believe in marriage. She's very ballsy, very masculine," says Winslet, breaking off to take a final puff on that smoldering roll-up.

"And she smokes."

Originally posted Jan 26, 1996 Published in issue #311 Jan 26, 1996 Order article reprints
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