Kate Winslet raves about working with son Joe Anders on ‘Goodbye June’
Well, it was written by my son and he handed me the script and he was very nervous about me reading it. Um, and he had gone to screenwriting school where he had gotten a place and we were just so proud of him that he applied for that course and was brave enough to go ahead and do it. And so when he hands me this script and I read it and I say to him, “Well, you’ve written a screenplay and he’s saying to me, “No, mom, it’s just like an assignment and I I’m just trying to see if I can actually write.” And I said, “Well, you can. And we’re going to make this into a film.” So that’s what’s happening. And because I felt so excited about the story, it was so real. All these characters were incredibly moving. Um, and I felt that how he had infused so much humor into a story that is about a complicated family processing impending loss. I just thought that was so brilliant and setting it at Christmas time. So you have that kind of inbuilt feeling of, you know, a clock ticking as the days go by and you’re ramping towards that big emotional day that so many people in the year are building towards, you know, and this family trying desperately to get to that day so that they can experience it with and for their mother. There were just so many things about it that I I really loved and I felt it was also an important story because I don’t know that we do particularly talk about loss um as much as perhaps we could. I mean it was honestly just incredible you know to be with such wonderful people. Andrea I had worked with twice already. Timothy Spool I’d worked with when I was 20 years old so precisely 30 years ago. And uh and the fact that he said yes, the fact that Tony, wonderful Tony, who amazingly I’d never met, our paths had never crossed, which seems so insane because actually I feel like I know her perhaps because I connect so freely with so many of the roles that she’s played and have admired her forever. And Johnny Flynn and Helen Mirren. I mean, it was like it was just insane that they all said yes. We just couldn’t believe it. goodwill and a sense of humor mattered enormously. And because I’ve been in this indust industry so long, you know, I formed incredible real friendships with so many film crew members over the years, particularly in England where it’s much smaller, you know. Um, and so I was truly able to gather together my favorite people who I’ve ever worked with. And uh, and they all wanted to come and be part of this very collaborative, really supportive working environment because I only had seven weeks to make the film. We only had Helen Murin for 16 days and I had all those seven children as well as our adult actors and it was the first time I was doing it first time for my son. You know, Netflix were very very supportive of that and we were able to pay it forward and we had a lot of other first-time department heads and it was what a wonderful experience. Do you have a favorite? I think probably shooting the nativity sequence because everyone was just so excited and couldn’t wait to do it and all the children were brilliant. and they’d all decided on what parts they wanted to play and they’d all even picked out their own costumes which was how we kind of wanted them to feel like they had ownership of this great game we were all playing and so it was just it was very very special. I never ever want to sort of assume uh the right to suggest that there might be something they might feel but from the feedback that we’re getting so far people are finding it cathartic and uplifting and so that that means a lot.
During a special screening in New York, Kate Winslet explained what it was like working with her son Joe Anders on the new movie “Goodbye June” in their roles as director and screenwriter. The new film is the 22-year-old’s writing debut, inspired by his own experience when Winslet’s mother died.
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