Kate Beckinsale ‘flunked’ Being A Teenager Kate Beckinsale Admits She ‘flunked’ Adolescence
She began to seek film work in the United States in the late 1990s and, after appearing in small-scale dramas The Last Days of Disco (1998) and Brokedown Palace (1999), she had a breakout year in 2001 with starring roles in the war epic Pearl Harbor and the romantic comedy Serendipity. in her teens, she twice won the W.H. Smith Young Writers’ competition–once for short stories and once for poetry–and was presented with the prize by poet Ted Hughes. She was involved with the Oxford University Dramatic Society, most notably being directed by fellow student Tom Hooper in a production of A View from the Bridge at the Oxford Playhouse. in 1993, Beckinsale landed the role of Hero in Kenneth Branagh’s big-screen adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing. in 1994, she appeared as Christian Bale’s love interest in Prince of Jutland, a film based on the Danish legend which inspired Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and starred in the murder mystery Uncovered. in 1995, while studying in Paris, she filmed the French language Marie-Louise Ou La Permission.
Kate Beckinsale ‘flunked’ being a teenager Kate Beckinsale admits she ‘flunked’ adolescence and is determined to guide her daughter Lily, 13, through the awkward years. Kate Beckinsale ‘flunked… [link]
