Munich welcomed like she was the queen of the world on Tuesday night when the Oscar-winning actress received at the Munich Film Festival. The crowd at Munich’s Deutsches Theater whooped and hollered as Winslet took to the stage to accept her award, and to introduce the European premiere of her latest film, biopic , in which she plays war photographer . “It’s like I’m a film star!” joked Winslet, egging on the crowd to keep clapping.
“No really, this is not how I usually get treated...
I’m just going to lap it up.” David Kross, Winslet’s young German co-star from , presented her with the CineMerit award, recalling that they first met “16 years ago when I was just 17 years old, had only made two films and had just left school. And you were Kate Winslet.
” Kross joked how great it was “to celebrate turning 18 with you,” a reference to the sex scenes in , which were shot on his 18th birthday, months after the rest of the film had wrapped, to allow Kross to reach legal age. “You were also my intimacy coordinator, a concept that didn’t even exist in those years,” he said. He also thanked Winslet for a famous moment on awards tour, when the pair appeared on and “I didn’t understand a word of what was being said.
” “You poor boy,” said Winslet, thanking Kross. “We put you through a lot [on ],” before noting that she had “been that. I had been 17 [on her film debut ].
” The Munich CineMerit Prize was for Winslet’s life’s work —”you.
