Kate Winslet reflects on why she wanted to direct 'Goodbye June'

Kate Winslet is opening up about her upcoming directorial debut, Goodbye June, which was written by her son, Joe Anders. She had originally only been set to produce and have a role in the cast.

However, as soon as they began discussing directors, the actress told Deadline, "I suddenly felt like I’d been stabbed in the gut. And I said to him, 'Oh, I don’t think I can let it go.' I said, 'I don’t think I can give it away, Joe.' And he said, 'What do you mean?'" The problem was that "as soon as we give this to another director, it becomes theirs," continuing to explain, "That’s what happens. So I said that I want for us to really feel like we’ve done this. I want to direct it."

Along with Winslet, the movie stars Helen Mirren, Timothy Spall, Andrea Riseborough, Toni Collette, Johnny Flynn, Stephen Merchant, Fisayo Akinade, Jeremy Swift, and Raza Jaffrey.  

"I’ve been on enough film sets to know what works and what doesn’t… I think that’s something that I know that I can say, and I’ve been around enough actors to, I think have some degree of instinct about what’s helpful and what’s not," she concluded. "I think it just feels great to have directed my first film in the 50th year of my life as a woman. It feels good, it feels good."