Kate Winslet says she’s still nervous about really wanting a role and has moments of doubt – even though she’s an Oscar-winning actress.

“Oh, honestly, that’s a whole lot of crazy,” she said with a laugh in an interview with 60 minutes which aired on Sunday. “I mean, it still is today. Like anything else, going to an interview is absolutely terrifying. If it’s a job you really want, it’s doubly frightening.”

Despite her Oscar win – for 2008 The reader – She sometimes feels that she is not worthy of a role.

“So what?” she said when it was announced that she had won the film industry’s top prize. “When I did leeI sat there and said, “This is ridiculous.”… I can honestly think of at least five other brilliant actresses who would have played this role much better than me. I like it much better.’ And often I turn to another crew member and say, ‘You just read the wrong name on the list.’ I’m telling you, they didn’t want me to be here.’ “

To play the role of World War II photographer Lee Miller in her latest film, Winslet, who also served as a producer, researched archives with the help of Miller’s son. She also hired a historian to create an exact replica of Miller’s camera and actually took photos during her performance.

“It couldn’t just be a prop,” she said. “It had to feel like an extension of my arms. I had to be confident and comfortable with it. And to do that, I had to know what I was doing.”

Miller was a model who turned to photography. During World War II she was a war correspondent for fashion and took the photos of the first documented use of napalm as well as some of the first images of the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau. She was also photographed sitting in Adolf Hitler’s bathtub in his private apartment in Munich on the day he committed suicide in Berlin. Winslet said it wasn’t easy to get supporters for the project at first.

“There was a potential investor who said to me, ‘Why should I like this woman?’ I mean, she’s drunk, she’s loud. She, I mean, he probably just didn’t say she had wrinkles on her face,” she said.

Winslet added: “It’s difficult to make films about female historical figures. “Typically, these are not films that would necessarily sell well at the box office,” she said, noting “proudly” that her film has grossed nearly $25 million worldwide so far.

The actress said she doesn’t mind defying Hollywood norms on screen after being mocked for her weight early in her career and is bothered by men’s double standards.

“People say, ‘Oh, you were so brave for this role. “You didn’t wear any makeup,” she said. “You know, ‘You had wrinkles.’ Do we say to men, ‘Oh, you were so brave for this role.’ You grew a beard?’ No, we don’t do that. …it’s not brave. It’s about playing the role.”

She added that in one scene, a crew member on Lee told her to “lull down and sit up.” But she refused to do so.

“I don’t think Lee would have done that,” she said. “It’s about knowing that Lee’s ease with her body was hard-won.” Plus, it’s “tiring” to constantly worry about it, she added.

Meanwhile, Winslet bristled a little when asked about her breakout role in 1997 Titanic – especially whether Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) could have fit on the piece of wood with Rose and potentially saved his life.

“You know what? I have no idea,” she replied.

When asked if she was bothered by questions about a 27-year-old film, Winslet replied: “No. I’ll tell you, what I find sometimes just curious is probably what I’m saying about Titanic will often be the takeaway, so I just think, “Well, there were these things that I said about the movie that I was talking about,” and yet that’s the only thing. So that’s the only thing I think about sometimes, hmm.”