Kate Winslet Is Home for the Holidays
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Higher Ground
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
For over thirty years, Kate Winslet has been one of the most beloved performers on screen.
We discuss her directorial debut in Goodbye June (5:00), the loss that inspired this personal screenplay (10:00), and how her experiences in Hollywood shaped her approach to directing (20:00). Then, Winslet reflects on her vivid upbringing in Reading, England (23:00), landing her breakout role in Peter Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures (30:00), and the encouragement of her artistic father (33:00).
On the back-half, we walk through how she crafted her performance in Sense and Sensibility (35:00), her Titanic audition (38:00), the scrutiny she endured in the film’s aftermath (40:00), and the body of work she ultimately made as a refutation of the industry that tried to define her: namely, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (48:00) and Mare of Easttown (52:00).
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| 0:00.0 | This is Talk Easy. I'm Sam Fregoso so welcome to the show. |
| 0:35.8 | Today, actor and director, Kate Winslet. |
| 0:40.9 | For over 30 years, Winslet has been one of the most beloved performers on screen. |
| 0:46.4 | She broke through as a teenager in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures back in 1994, |
| 0:50.3 | and has since become one of the best actors of her generation. |
| 0:56.6 | Sentence sensibility, Titanic, Eternal Sunshine, and the Spotless Mind, Revolutionary Road, |
| 1:02.5 | Avatar, The Reader, for which she won an Academy Award in 2009. And that's just the movies. |
| 1:09.4 | On television over at HBO, she's earned multiple Emmys for her work in Miljia Pierce, and my personal favorite, Mayor of East Town. When she's not learning |
| 1:13.0 | how to hold her breath underwater for the latest installment of James Cameron's avatar, |
| 1:17.6 | she's producing work of her own, including the new film, Goodbye June, which also serves as her |
| 1:23.8 | directorial debut. The film takes place just before Christmas |
| 1:27.7 | when the titular June, |
| 1:29.5 | played by Dame Helen Mirren, |
| 1:31.4 | has an unexpected turn in her health, |
| 1:34.2 | forcing the four adult siblings |
| 1:35.9 | and their exasperating father |
| 1:38.1 | to prepare for the potential loss. |
| 1:41.0 | Here's a clip from the trailer. |
| 1:46.0 | It's a big family tune. |
| 1:48.6 | We're gorgeous daughters. |
| 1:50.8 | So lovely, they can all be here for you. |
| 1:52.8 | I'm here. I told you never wear yellow because it doesn't suit you. |
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