Kate Winslet

It's less about a woman who's...

sort of slipping away and much more about a family coming together because of that event.

And I think it doesn't matter what family looks like to you.

We all have to deal with loss at some point in our lives.

And actually, I think in this country, we're not very good at dealing with it and talking about that stuff.

And I remember when my own mum passed away

sitting with my dad and thinking, what do we do now?

And actually Googling coffins, like how do you, I mean, and there's no manual for any of it.

And so, I don't know, there's something about the kind of messy navigation that this family of disparate people has to process in order to kind of come to terms with A, what's happening, but B,

how they're all going to stick together and put aside past grievances and make it okay.

And there's something to me that's just very, very real and human about that.

I don't know if it's a British thing or just is it a culture, is it a Western thing?

I mean, I think when you look at other cultures, there are so many ways in which they process loss and even letting that person go and what they then do afterwards.

And I just think in this country, there's a very standard way of dealing with loss.

when you lose a parent or a loved one in particular.

And I just, I don't know, I think making something that perhaps ignites a bit of conversation around that stuff, I think it's helpful.

techniques and little tips from them the people you'd work with across the years I mean wake everyone up at midnight yeah I definitely didn't wake anyone definitely didn't wake there's an elephant at the hospital yeah okay I'm not falling for this again um I loved I honestly I loved every single second of it I loved being with the actors I loved all the prep I loved every day of the shoot I never wanted it to finish I loved sort of pulling people together and

um and creating a story that you know felt resonant and humorous and warm and and even the edit and the sound mix and the music and the great all of it i just i loved every second of it and i think i have been lucky i have worked with some incredible people and

some directors are really all about the actors and others are more about the visual side of things and perhaps don't necessarily have the language available to them to be able to communicate something with an actor.

And I think having learned a lot over this 33 years of this career that I've been so lucky to have, I've certainly observed and felt myself what is helpful to an actor and what