"Thirty-three years of my career has taught me so much, because as an actor, you're never just showing up and doing the job. You are also learning an awareness of how to be on a film set, how to conduct yourself, how to collaborate and behave with other people, so that everyone feels respected and included...being an active producer and putting the financing together and sometimes paying for screenwriters fees out of my own pocket"
"was the best possible way I could ever have learned the nuts and bolts of that job. And so my relationship with Ellen [Kuras] and being able to elevate her - the director of 'Lee,' the cinematographer of 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,' and I'd known her for all of that time - to have her direct her first feature film after so many years and an incredible career was also part of being the kind of producer that I want to be."
Winslet directed Goodbye June, a film about a fractious family who reunite ahead of Christmas to sit vigil for the family matriarch, played by Helen Mirren. The ensemble cast includes Andrea Riseborough, Johnny Flynn, Timothy Spall, Toni Collette, and Winslet. Winslet highlights lesser-known favorite films and maintains a lifelong friendship with Leonardo DiCaprio, who is like an uncle to her children. Winslet beat Tom Cruise twice on underwater breath holds and returned to work with James Cameron on Avatar: The Way of Water, with a role in the upcoming Avatar: Fire and Ash. Producing projects including Mare of Easttown, The Regime, and Lee provided Winslet the experience and confidence to direct.
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