Hollywood’s dream factory can make Superman fly, Gollum grumble and the Death Star explode into a million bright pieces.
But it still can’t make an actor age in a convincing fashion.
Just saw “The Reader” in which Kate Winslet’s character is supposed to age roughly three decades.
But all they could do was throw a granny sweater and gray wig on her and make her skin a ghastly shade of pale. But she still looks like Kate Winslet.
(Photo: Kate Winslet plays Hanna Schmitz over the course of nearly three decades in “The Reader.” Photo by:
Melinda Sue Gordon (c) 2008. The Weinstein Co.)
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