Interview With "Goodbye June" Director Kate Winslet

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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"Goodbye June" is a 2025 Christmas family drama film directed by Kate Winslet in her directorial debut, from a screenplay written by her son Joe Anders. It stars an ensemble cast that includes Toni Collette, Johnny Flynn, Andrea Riseborough, Timothy Spall, Helen Mirren, and Winslet herself. The film is set during Christmas, when the characters gather around their dying mother and confront themes of grief, reconciliation, and love. Winslet was kind enough to spend some time talking with us about her work and experience making the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now available to stream on Netflix. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Nadia Dalamonte's interview
0:04.5	with the director for Goodbye June, Kate Winslet.
0:07.6	If there are any heavens, my mother will all by herself, have one.
0:20.2	It's a big family, June.
0:22.6	My gorgeous daughters.
0:24.6	So lovely they can all be here for you.
0:26.6	I'm here.
0:27.6	I told you never wear yellow because it doesn't suit you.
0:30.6	Oh, no.
0:32.6	Now, why don't we have goose for Christmas?
0:35.6	I always like a cheap bird. Dad, shut up.
0:38.3	It's unbelievable.
0:39.3	It is unbelievable.
0:40.3	Mercury is in retrograde though. You know that.
0:43.3	How do you think they're doing?
0:47.3	Hard to say.
0:50.3	I'm not sure about how the girls are doing June.
0:53.3	I've drawn up a rotor.
0:55.0	I've made it so you and I don't overlap.
0:57.0	Maybe we should ask mum what she wants.
1:00.0	Families are hard.
1:02.0	Shut! Just please.
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