KATE WINSLET - Actor / Director
Team Deakins
James Ellis Deakins
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🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 96 minutes
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SEASON 2 - EPISODE 173 - Kate Winslet - Actor / Director
Actor and director Kate Winslet (GOODBYE JUNE, MARE OF EASTTOWN, HEAVENLY CREATURES) joins us in this extended episode of the Team Deakins Podcast. During our conversation, we discuss Kate's humble beginnings, inheriting an accent, good and bad direction, playing characters based on real people, and her experiences shooting her directorial debut, GOODBYE JUNE. In addition to her long career as an actress and newly begun one as a director, Kate has also recently stepped into the role of producing. We learn why Kate took on the extra challenge, how she balances her duties behind and in front of the camera, and what she looks for in a project to potentially join—in any capacity. While discussing GOODBYE JUNE, we learn how Kate found the script, why she ended up directing the movie, and how she applied a lifetime's worth of experience to create a space for the cast to just be their characters and perform. We worked with Kate on REVOLUTIONARY ROAD, and we had a wonderful time catching up with her.
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Recommended Viewing: GOODBYE JUNE, MARE OF EASTTOWN, HEAVENLY CREATURES
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This episode is sponsored by Aputure
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and welcome to Season 2 of the Team Deacons podcast, |
| 0:07.0 | a collection of informal conversations between Roger and James Deacons and a guest. |
| 0:13.0 | We never know where the conversation will take us, so listen in and see where it goes. |
| 0:21.9 | This episode is sponsored by Aperture and its new Storm XT-52, the industry's most |
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| 0:51.5 | only from Aperture. |
| 0:58.7 | Today, we're speaking with an actor and director. |
| 1:04.6 | Her credits include Titanic, Mayor of East Town, and the upcoming Goodbye June. |
| 1:07.1 | We're pleased to welcome Kate Winslet. |
| 1:09.4 | Kate, thank you for doing this. It's lovely to see you, Kay. |
| 1:10.5 | Oh my God, that's so, that's so strange to, I think that's the first time I have been |
| 1:15.2 | described as a director. |
| 1:18.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:18.5 | And this is the first podcast I'm doing where I know we're going to be talking about |
| 1:23.4 | goodbye June. |
| 1:24.3 | And so it's just, it's, it's, that's strange. |
| 1:27.3 | That feels like a |
| 1:27.9 | step, doesn't it? Well, it must be a step. I was reading a little bit of, about, about, |
| 1:37.1 | how you grew up and how you got into the industry. I wanted if you could talk about that, |
| 1:42.0 | because it was really interesting. How you got to where you are today. |
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