For many years, any jobs Kate Winslet took had to fit around her children. Titanic made the actress a star at 22, but once she had Mia (when aged 25, with Jim Threapleton) and Joe (at 28, with Sam Mendes) she tried to avoid working in the school holidays. Sometimes, she says, that meant picking a role that just “ticked seven out of ten boxes”.
Then came Mare of Easttown. Winslet, 47, won an Emmy for last year’s superb, gritty television series, in which she played a divorced cop in a sad town. The part was intense. It changed her. So how does she pick roles now? “I make each decision with integrity,” she gushes, before adding, “because if I don’t I’ll be shit.
