Kate Winslet was against retouching her 'bulgy bit of belly' in 'Mare of Easttown' scene

Remember when Rose urged Jack to draw her like one of his French girls in Titanic?

Kate Winslet is still of the same unabashed and unedited mindset 24 years later.

The Oscar-winning actress stars in HBO's Mare of Easttown—the finale aired Sunday night—as Detective Mare Sheehan, planting her firmly back into the mainstream consciousness. Maureen David profiled Winslet for The New York Times, noting that she is "back on the sides of buses. Without airbrushing."

And Winslet underlined that concept by sharing that she met director Craig Zobel's suggestion to edit "a bulgy bit of belly" out of her sex scene with Guy Pearce with "Don't you dare!" She also rejected the promotional poster twice because she thought it was "too retouched," per David.

Winslet continued:

"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'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. 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.'"

Mare of Easttown was created by Brad Ingelsby. "As her life crumbles around her, a small-town Pennsylvania detective Mare Sheehan (Kate Winslet) investigates a local murder," HBO's official description explains. "The series explores the dark side of a close community and provides an authentic examination of how family and past tragedies can define our present."

The limited series consists of seven episodes, available to stream on HBO Max, and also stars Julianne Nicholson, Jean Smart, David Denman, Angourie Rice, and more.

Watch the trailer below.