Kate Winslet Needed "Proper Help" After Grueling 'Mare of Easttown' Role

Speaking on the Lessons From Our Mothers podcast, Winslet said, "When you play a really difficult part--I think of Mare of Easttown, for example, which flattened me, my god--you do have to kind of come out the other side. I call it re-entry. Re-entry into your own life, going back into your friendships, reintegrating into the rhythm of family again. Exiting a family, leaving people behind, letting a character go."

The actress explained that the extended filming schedule, affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, made the process particularly challenging. "It was meant to be a six-month shoot. Covid happened after the five months that we had been shooting, and everything got pushed, and when we came back, our five remaining weeks turned into 10. By the end of the whole thing, I'd been playing that character for over a year. And I really honestly went a bit mad," she said, as quoted by E! News.

Describing the experience as "quite weird," the 50-year-old added, "It's the only time in my life that I actually had to get some proper help, to come back to myself."

Kate feels grateful that she's able to use what she learned to support her and ex-husband Sam Mendes' 22-year-old son Joe Anders, who recently had a similar experience after acting in the upcoming Apple TV+ series Cape Fear, according to E! News.

"He's a few months out the other side of that, and he's still in the experience of the re-entry," Kate--who is also mom to Mia Threapleton, 25, with ex Jim Threapleton, and Bear Winslet, 11, with husband Edward Abel Smith, shared. "I'm able to actively support my son in this moment in his life, when actually, the mothering does kick in again on a very cellular level," as per the outlet.

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