When a whiff of Port Talbot floated into Hollywood's biggest night of the year - at the glamorous Oscars And a Bangor student's film wins eight awards

The 69-year-old broadcaster, whose interviews with former US President Richard Nixon formed the basis for the film, said: "It's quite odd to see him up there on film or stage. It's a bit like an out-of-body experience. He was brilliant because he didn't do an impersonation - he t...

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Published inWestern mail (Cardiff, Wales : 1956)
Main Author Steffan Rhys
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cardiff (UK) MGN Ltd 24.02.2009
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Boyle, Danny
Button, Benjamin
Penn, Sean
Sheen, Michael
Winslet, Kate
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Summary:The 69-year-old broadcaster, whose interviews with former US President Richard Nixon formed the basis for the film, said: "It's quite odd to see him up there on film or stage. It's a bit like an out-of-body experience. He was brilliant because he didn't do an impersonation - he took the character and added to it." "I'd be lying if I said I hadn't made a version of this before I was eight-years-old and staring into the bathroom mirror and this Oscar would be a shampoo bottle," she said. "Only it's not a shampoo bottle now. I feel very fortunate to have made it all the way from there to here." "I feel like an unlikely hero," she said. "I was not the privileged kid things like this could happen to. My mum won a pickled onion competition in the local pub just before Christmas and the Reading Evening Post sent me a picture of her holding her jar. Well, Reading Evening Post, here's your next [Kate Winslet] picture!"