Kate Winslet's anger when they wanted to retouch her tummy in this scene: "Don't even think about it!", she told the director
Kate Winslet, absolutely topical for the success of the series Mare of Easttown, is a great defender of natural beauty. She loves her wrinkles and that's why she was furious when she saw that her face had been retouched on the promotional poster for the series, something that the publicity department insisted on. "They told me 'you can't' and I told them: I know how many wrinkles my eyes have, please put them back!" She even twice had to stand up and return the photos to the graphic design department because her face was excessively retouched.
And her commitment went further. During filming she also prevented her body from being digitally modified in a s*x scene. The director told her that when they watched the tape they saw that she showed a little belly and promised her that they would "improve" her image. "Don't even think about it," was Winslet's reply. "I think people have connected with my character because there are clearly no filters. She is a fully functioning, flawed woman with a body and face that is appropriate to her age, her life and where she comes from. ".
Kate, 46 years old, sweeps this HBO production that tells the investigation of a detective from a rural area of Pennsylvania (USA) who faces the case of a girl who has been missing for more than a year, while trying to deal with with their family and sentimental problems in a place where everyone knows each other. “I had never read a character like Mare before. But at the same time, I felt a connection not only to who she was but to the world she lived in.”
Winslet also underscores the "heart and truth" that underpins the plot of Mare of Easttown and says that the series required a great deal of personal and professional effort. "We had about six weeks together because this was during Covid-19 and we had to be very safe," Winslet reveals of the shoot.
The winner of the Oscar for best actress for The Reader is the protagonist of this limited series (miniseries), and next to her is the actor Guy Pearce. "Guy was my crush when I was 11 years old, I had a crush on him. I was actually obsessed, I knew we shared the same birthday, October 5, because I read about it in a teen magazine. Finding myself living with my childhood crush was amazing and we celebrated our birthday while living together. That's an example of that dreams can come true," he jokes.
In addition to this experience, the protagonist of Titanic learned that Guy Pearce is obsessed with caring for the environment, something that made him "fall in love" even more. "He takes recycling so seriously that he would go in the trash and take things that he decided weren't clean enough to go in the recycling and put them in the dishwasher, he could take an empty sardine or tuna can and put it in the dishwasher," he details.
Winslet is also listed as an executive producer and says her character cannot be understood without the strong ties that bind her to her community. "That commitment of hers to the people she loves is overwhelming for her to the point that it leads her to make some decisions that have devastating consequences." Brad Ingelsby, screenwriter of the film The Way Back, is the creator of this series that has been directed by Craig Zobel, who has signed as director episodes of The Leftovers, American Gods or Westworld, starring, among others, Evan Rachel Wood.
