Kate Winslet is back in the spotlight as she rocks her latest role. The 45-year-old has been starring in HBO's latest smash-hit limited series, Mare of Easttown.
In a recent New York Times interview, Kate talked about her career then and now, specifically taking a few looks back at the Titanic era. Kate reflected on nudity and whether she'd still be willing to strip down for a role.
Of course, Kate's off-screen role as a mom was also discussed, and Kate took the opportunity to simply gush over husband Edward Abel Smith, formerly known by his pseudonym Ned Rocknroll. She explained how his care as a husband and his willingness to be a stay-at-home dad make it easy for her to take on challenging roles, like this most recent project.
In Mare of Easttown, Kate Winslet plays Detective Mare Sheehan, a character who has resonated with a lot of people.
"Listen, I hope that in playing Mare as a middle-aged woman — I will be 46 in October — I guess that's why people have connected with this character in the way that they have done because there are clearly no filters," she told The New York Times.
"She's a fully functioning, flawed woman with a body and a face that moves in a way that is synonymous with her age and her life and where she comes from. I think we're starved of that a bit."
"In episode one, she's having sex on a couch," Kate recalls.
"I said to my husband, 'Am I OK with that? Is it all right that I'm playing a middle-aged woman who is a grandmother who does really make a habit of having one-night stands?' He's like, 'Kate, it's great. Let her do it.'"
In the interview, Kate also touched on her history with accepting nudity in the roles she takes.
"I think my days are getting a little bit numbered of doing nudity," Kate admitted.
"I'm just not that comfortable doing it anymore. It's not even really an age thing, actually. There comes a point where people are going to go, 'Oh, here she goes again.'"
Kate also took some time to gush over her husband, Edward Abel Smith. Formerly known as Ned Rocknroll, he's the nephew of Richard Branson.
"He's the superhot, superhuman, stay-at-home dad," she says of him.
"He looks after us, especially me. I said to him earlier, like, 'Neddy, could you do something for me?' He just went, 'Anything.'"
"He is an absolutely extraordinary life partner," she continued.
"I'm so, so, so lucky. For a man who is severely dyslexic, as he is, he's great at testing me on lines. It's so hard for him to read out loud, but he still does it."
Kate and Edward have been married for nine years now, but it was never what either of them had in mind initially.
"He didn't particularly plan on meeting and marrying a woman who is in the public eye and therefore having been so judged," she noted.
"He's vegan, does yoga, breath work and cold water swims."
Kate is a mom of three. She shares 7-year-old Bear Blaze with Edward. Her next oldest is 17-year-old Joe, whom she shares with ex Sam Mendes. Her oldest is 20-year-old Mia, from her first marriage to Jim Threapleton.
Mia recently started her own acting career, without anyone realizing who her famous mom is.
"She's away now in the Czech Republic about to start on a TV series over there," Kate shared in a recent interview.
"I think I knew [it] was coming, I always suspected. And then a few years ago she turned around and said, 'I'd like to give it a go.'"
"What's great for her is she has a different surname so she slipped under the radar and the people who cast her didn't know she was my daughter and that was important for her self-esteem, of course," Kate explained.
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree! Mia had her first movie role last year with Shadows and shared that it was her very first audition.
"Shadows was the first film I'd received an audition for, and the first script I had ever been given to read," she told Variety.
"I couldn't believe my luck. I read it and didn't put it down. Which is admitting a lot because I'm dyslexic and that means I have to read slowly and steadily to be able to absorb things fully sometimes."
