Kate Winslet Talks Steve Jobs' Movie & Playing Joanna Hoffman With WSJ Magazine October 2015

If you don't recognize Oscar winner with three Golden Globes, an Emmy and a Grammy actor Kate Winslet, lensed by Willy Vanderperre for WSJ Magazine, you're in good company. Stylist Alastair McKimm chooses severe luxe looks with impeccable tailoring for Winslet's October issue feature.  

"I didn't know who it was," says director Danny Boyle, when he received Winslet's photo from producer Scott Rudin. Boyle was speechless on learning that Winslet wanted to play the supporting role of Steve Jobs' confidante, friend and then Apple marketing chief Joanna Hoffman in the new biopic 'Steve Jobs'. 

When she first heard the film was in the works, with Michael Fassbender playing Jobs in the title role, she said to herself, “I’ve got to get in on this gig.” She arches an eyebrow before recalling her next thought, writes Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, before saying: “Well, f—ing great. How the hell am I supposed to make that happen?”  

Former Apple CEO John Sculley says that the movie is "extraordinary entertainment" but depicts only one side of Steve Jobs' personality. Notably friends say he always had a strong sense of humor, none of which is revealed in the movie. Jobs' wife Laurene Powell Jobs, recently profiled in AOC's new Hillary Women blog, was strongly opposed to release of the film and refused to cooperate with its production.  The movie is based on Walter Isaacson's biography of Jobs.