Kate Winslet

simply isn't and could actually kind of fuck people up.

And so staying away from the things that I know don't work was something that I kept at the forefront of my mind.

Yeah.

I know, it's funny, we sort of didn't, we just thought only of, when I say we, I mean myself and Joe Anders, the writer who happens to be my son, but he so didn't really believe that I was serious, that we could turn this into a film, this script that he had written having never written a screenplay before.

I kept saying to him, right, okay, let's sit down.

We're going to put together our just dream list of people who would play these parts, which crew we would go to and everything.

And we came up with this list of extraordinary actors.

And we never thought that really any of them were going to say yes.

And they all did.

So the trick then was casting people of that caliber in these amazing roles and making them disappear and making it feel like a family.

And I think a lot of that is...

helped by the brilliant children that we had.

Seven kids, which I was never... Actually, it was eight because the six-month-old baby was identical twin girls.

But I've never been afraid of working with children.

And actually, as an actress, I've always really loved it.

And

Interestingly, back to that thing of how other directors handle things, a lot of directors are scared of how do you direct children.

And the reality is you can't really teach a child unless they're very gifted.

You can't really teach a child how to act.

You can just encourage them to be.