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<\/p>\nLONDON \u2013 Oscar winner Kate Winslet makes her directorial debut with Goodbye June, a holiday season-set drama about a family faced with loss coming together.<\/p>\n
The English actress, who also stars in the film, directs from a screenplay by her 21-year-old son Joe Anders. The story was partly inspired by their personal experience of losing Winslet\u2019s mother and Anders\u2019 grandmother to cancer in 2017.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just wanted to make a film that felt authentic and real,\u201d said Winslet, 50, premiering the movie with Anders and the cast in London on Dec 3. It debuts on Netflix on Dec 24.<\/p>\n
\u201cI also didn\u2019t want to make a story that was about someone who dies because it\u2019s really not. It\u2019s actually about the life that is given to the people who are left behind.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said she wanted to set the movie in Britain\u2019s National Health Service space because it is \u201cmassively undervalued\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd we need to give credit and honour the people who do that incredible work, especially our palliative care workers,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s entirely fictional,\u201d added Anders. \u201cI think it just emotionally came from that place of sending my grandmother off.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Kate Winslet (right) directing on the set of Goodbye June.<\/p>\n
PHOTO: NETFLIX<\/p>\n
Anders, whose father is Oscar-winning English film-maker Sam Mendes and Winslet\u2019s former husband, wrote the script when he was 19, and showed it to her for feedback.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t even know if I could write a screenplay. I just wanted to give it my best shot. And the fact that it\u2019s been made into a movie is insane,\u201d Anders said.<\/p>\n
Winslet said of her son\u2019s work: \u201cI was so impressed by it and loved the dialogue \u2013 it was just phenomenal.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd so when it came to the point that the script was ready to send out to directors, I just realised that there was no way we could possibly let it go.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Screenwriter-actor Joe Anders and his mother, actress Kate Winslet, at the premiere of Goodbye June in London on Dec 3.<\/p>\n
PHOTO: AFP<\/p>\n
Winslet said she had thought about stepping behind the camera over the years, but raising a family kept her busy. She also has a 25-year-old daughter, actress Mia Threapleton, from her first marriage to English director Jim Threapleton; and a 12-year-old son with her current husband Edward Abel Smith, an English businessman.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere just wouldn\u2019t have been that space in my life, I think, emotionally and just energetically. I couldn\u2019t possibly have added anything else into the juggle of it all. But this felt like the right moment, and I felt really ready to do it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
In the film, family matriarch June (Helen Mirren) is hospitalised shortly before Christmas. Her husband (Timothy Spall), son (Johnny Flynn) and three daughters, played by Winslet, Andrea Riseborough and Toni Collette, and their offspring rush to her bedside, bringing with them conflict and personal struggles, but also joy and care.<\/p>\n
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Helen Mirren (left) and Kate Winslet in Goodbye June.<\/p>\n
PHOTO: NETFLIX<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s such an honest look at the transition from life into the next. And it\u2019s about family, the mess and the beauty of the dysfunctional family system,\u201d said Australian actress Collette, 53. <\/p>\n
Winslet said she was \u201cso proud\u201d of herself for directing her first film and would \u201clove to do more\u201d as she found the experience \u201cincredibly rewarding\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI loved being with those actors, I loved being with the children, and also the collaboration with the crew, because it all has to work together. You all have to be a team, and it\u2019s something that really just lifted me up.\u201d REUTERS\/AFP<\/p>\n
Goodbye June premieres on Netflix on Dec 24.<\/p>\n
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