Kate Winslet feels strongly about Christmas

 

Kate Winslet feels strongly about Christmas

Kate Winslet feels strongly about Christmas — British Christmas, specifically. The two weeks before the holiday play out in the background of Winslet’s directorial debut, “Goodbye June.” 

The project — which arrived in U.S. theaters last week and is streaming on Netflix on Wednesday — has been a family affair for Winslet. The film’s screenplay was written by her son, Joe Anders, and is partly inspired by the death of Winslet’s mother when Anders was 13, Winslet said. Anders, now 22, started writing the script two years ago as part of a screenwriting course. 

For a decade, people on sets had been telling her that she should direct, and her son’s script felt like the perfect project: “a first-time writer and a first-time director doing this together as equals, as colleag,” she said.