Now and then, we hear about celebrities who put themselves through drastic physical changes to portray a character and those who adopt method acting to lose themselves in a character.
Here, we have Kate Winslet who reached great heights to connect with the emotions of her character by “inventing (her own) trauma.”
Winslet plays a working-class, small-town Pennsylvania detective (Mare Sheenan) who is on the edge of losing everything she has by investigating a murder on the forthcoming HBO show, Mare of Easttown.
Best known for her portrayal as Rose DeWitt Bukater in the epic romance and disaster film ‘Titanic’, Winslet admitted that taking on the role has taken a toll on her emotional well-being. Sheenan’s emotional turmoil haunted her even after filming had wrapped, and that it wasn’t something she could just ‘switch off’.
“I had to invent more trauma for myself to play this part than any character I’ve ever played. I mean, look at me. It’s utterly, utterly stupid,” she said, tears streaming down her cheeks.
It was her character’s strained relationship with her son that got to Winslet the most.
“There’s clearly something in me that’s bound up in the guilt. As a mother, one feels for certain things. And you know, not that I have huge things as a mother to particularly feel guilty about myself, but we can always do better as mums. We all have something where we wish we’d said it differently or perhaps made a different choice.”
Winslet herself is a mother to three children who are between the ages of seven to 20 years old.
“When I think about kids today – I mean, luckily, luckily, I don’t have this with my children – but the number of kids who are self-harming, the number of kids who have mental health issues, how hard it is even to track what’s happening to young people when so much of their life is spent online…” she added, touching on the social issues that young people are suffering from.
You can watch the show on HBO starting April 19th 2021!
*Cover image via Instagram @kate.winslet.official
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