May 9, 2025
"Around 10 years old, she got her first sense of [Kate] Winslet’s notoriety. The star was asked to do a reading at a literary festival..."
"... [her daughter Mia] Threapleton was in the crowd, surrounded by adoring fans. 'I propped myself up on my knees and looked around, and there were so many people,' Threapleton says. 'I ran over to her at the end, and I said, "Oh my God, mum. Loads of people came. Loads of people know who you are!" She said, "Yeah, they kind of do."' But Threapleton says she wasn’t used to seeing scripts around the house or feel fame encroaching on the family’s private life. Every part of Winslet’s career was contained in the star’s small home office, which Threapleton never dared enter because 'there were usually birthday presents that were hidden under the desk.' 'I’ve never had social media. I don’t want it. It’s not something that I think would really serve my life very much,' Threapleton continues. 'I never really read magazines either. So I was just never that aware of the knownness of her until I got a little bit later in my teenage years.'"
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The Wall Street Journal is edging toward being a tabloid so I hope Althouse doesn't follow the trend.
I love the 'Happens to Be' text in the headline.
The original headline, “Daughter of a movie star gets an acting gig,” was rejected as less snappy.
…it goes just that way with discovering your family has money, too…
If Emily Blunt doesn’t take the female lead in “Frankenstein, Part II,” Mia has the part.
What a dishonest ingenue. She know how to try to be different, and she pretends to be innocent of the knowledge of her nepo status. But who really cares? The only nepo who earned her own stripes is Drew Barrymore. Though I wouldn't mind distancing myself from Winslet after that disgusting photo spread where she pulled off her filthy toenails while talking or selling diamonds or something.
Ah yes, she got the job completely on her own. I wonder, if she didn't have a wealthy and famous mother, if things would have turned out the same.
How long before she declares herself one of those trendy new genders? Isn't that all the rage in Hollywood now?
I have 9 dvds with Kate Winslet in them and don't remember any of them. The only female leads I remember in fact are Sandra Bullock (2 weeks notice) and Julia Roberts (Pretty Woman and whatever the Hugh Grant thing was)
In fact, come to think of it, playing opposite Hugh Grant is what makes a starlet memorable.
So not Billie Lorde, who remembers boys in school talking about getting off on pictures of her mom.
I'll take, THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPENED for $500, Alex
Just "Threapleton"? Aren't Brits big on hyphenated surnames, or is that just when official nobility is involved?
Well...good for her. Yes, she's a star's daughter. But you still have to have the ability once given the shot. It doesn't always work out that way. She apparently does. And frankly, if she's good enough to be part of the cast of a Wes Anderson film, I'll see her and judge for myself. Looking forward to seeing this movie.
Titanic cemented Winslet's career as a film actress, nevertheless I despised that blockbuster. To me her best work was opposite Dougray Scott in Enigma. In the final scene Winslet's character, Hester Wallace, is married to Tom Jericho (Scott) and looks heavily pregnant, which is either an outstanding effort of makeup and special costuming, or the real woman really expectant, possibly with Mia Threapleton.
I thought it was a lovely article. I think it's a lot easier for Brits to be unaware of their parents' fame because it seems like they're more mannered about that sort of thing. That could never happen in Hollywood.
I watch Emma Thompson's Sense and Sensibility at least once a year.
"The only nepo who earned her own stripes is Drew Barrymore."
Her father was himself a nepo, but he didn't do that well in life. I see she was kind to him when he was old and scattered his ashes in Joshua Tree National Forest.
"That could never happen in Hollywood."
That's because there's no equivalent movie star colony town in Great Britain. Hollywood being organized like a factory town is why we often unconsciously speak of the American film industry, as if film-making were an industrial process. Having actors, directors, and writer living cheek-by-jowl, literally nextdoor neighbors, facilitated tremendous studio productivity, however, it allow created an unhealthy atmosphere, especially for the children born into the marriages those close quarters fostered.
At the movies last night I saw the trailer, and my reactions were 1) Wes Anderson films are so distinctive, 2) who is this woman in lead whose name and face I don't recognize among all the stars?, and 3) how are co-stars Scarlett Johanson and Benedict Cumberbatch in other trailers being shown at the same time? (Jurrasic Park sequel for her and War of the Roses remake for him.)
"In fact, come to think of it, playing opposite Hugh Grant is what makes a starlet memorable."
Do you need a intervention?
"https://www.tiktok.com/@aarongoldyboy/video/7501657045100186911?lang=en
"And finally, Aaron, what's the first thing you notice about this girl?"/"Her boyfriend..."
Mia Threapleton is a Love Dumpling.
I'm laughing at tim maguire's comment. So true, so true!!
A Threapleton sounds like one of those modern relationships that are hard to diagram.
Lol Althouse
Well, it sounds like Winslet was a good mother. Maybe that's so rare in the movie industry that it's a big story.
Everybody in Hollywood is somebody's kid. I found out the other day that rising star Margaret Qualley is Andie MacDowell's daughter. And it's not like Goldie Hawn and Kate Hudson where the daughter is essentially a clone of the mother. Andy was sort of lush and Southern and willowy, while Margaret is more angular and schoolmarmy. Just to show how everyone is related to everyone else, Qualley is married to Lena Dunham's ex.
In some photos Mia does look like a young Kate Winslet, minus the young Kate's big bones. Those are the photos of them together, doing something like a twin act. In Mia's film roles she has different looks.
It's weird that, when it comes to acting, the talent doesn't usually get passed down to the next generation.
It's very rare that a child of an actor ar actress becomes a big success at it. I suspect that's because growing up from humble beginings helps to kick start the imagination.
I loved most of Wes Anderson's films, but the quirky well is running dry. I didn't care for "Asteroid City." Anderson wrote "The Phoenician Scheme," and most of his later pictures, with Roman Coppola. Maybe he needs a new collaborator.
Many years ago, James Corden hosted the BAFTA Film Awards (as opposed to the BAFTA TV Awards - smaller country, they have one Academy for both, but two separate award shows). The stage had a huge freestanding neon word "FILM" on it. Corden came out from behind the curtain and said "Welcome to the BAFTA Film Awards. Although from where I was backstage, it looked like the MILF Awards [because he saw the word "FILM" from behind, get it?]. We have some outstanding nominees; Winslet's a contender!" The control room switched to a reaction shot of Kate, who was doubled up giggling. Corden also made a saucy comment to/about his cohost Olivia Williams.
A gentler time.
JSM
Andie McDowell. Hubba Hubba.
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