‘I Was Good at Drinking, Having Sex, and Taking Pictures’ – Second Trailer Drops for ‘Lee’
A second trailer for Lee has dropped with this one revealing more of the story and character of Lee Miller who is played by Kate Winslet.
The trailer begins with Winslet speaking the candid lines: “I was born determined. I was good at drinking, having sex, and taking pictures.”
The rest of the two-minute 20-second trailer shows the narrative of the movie as Miller battles to be a female photojournalist during the Second World War.
The first trailer dropped last month with this second preview already receiving more than three times the amount of views than the first one.
The latest trailer shows Miller struggling to come to terms with what she is witnessing as World War II rages in Western Europe. The audience sees Miller as she photographs French women getting their heads shaven because they befriended Nazi soldiers during occupation.
The comments underneath the trailer are already calling for Winslet to receive her second Oscar for the role. Winslet is a highly-regarded actress whose first Oscar was for The Reader (2008).
The film also stars Alexander Skarsgård as Miller’s second husband, Roland Penrose, and Josh O’Connor as their son, Antony, who is himself a photographer and the director of the Lee Miller Archive and Penrose Collection.
A serious Andy Samberg plays David E. Scherman while Andrea Riseborough as Audrey Withers, and Marion Cotillard as Solange D’Ayen.
The movie is based on Antony Penrose’s book, The Lives of Lee Miller, which is part photo essay and part biography of his mother.
She famously posed in Hitler’s bathtub — a scene that is featured during the second trailer.
Fans of photography films have been blessed recently with The Bikeriders, inspired by the work of photographer Danny Lyon, playing in theaters earlier this year.
Also in 2024 was Civil War which turned the cinema lens toward photojournalism in a fictional, apocalyptic scenario.
Although, unlike Civil War, Lee is very much about an actual photographer who did extraordinary things. Lee Miller was a powerful, talented woman in an era where women had to fight tooth and nail to get any opportunities behind a camera.
PetaPixel looked back at Miller’s work last year when Lee made its appearance at the Toronto Film Festival.
Lee will be released in theaters in the U.S. on September 27.
