Kate Winslet did not want to act in her directorial debut ‘Goodbye June’

Kate Winslet admits that she was not in favour of acting in her directorial debut for Netflix, Goodbye June.

The film, which is written by her son Joe Anders, was initially proving to be too much for the actress who acknowledged being “good at multi-tasking”.

“I know I’m good at multitasking, but this is too many things,” she revealed in a recent interview with Digital Spy. “I desperately tried to recast myself [and] had a really good list of a handful of people who would have been absolutely brilliant in that role.”

However, Winslet added, “But at that point… Well, first of all, Netflix was like, ‘Uh-uh,’ and secondly, I’d cast all these incredible actors. How could I not go and play with them? Because that’s what we do. We play, we pretend, and it’s an amazing thing.”

The film, currently receiving a limited release in select cinemas, sees Winslet playing one of the four siblings who join their estranged father to bid farewell to their dying mother, June (played by Helen Mirren).

Speaking about the cast’s onscreen dynamic, the debutant director said, “I know it sounds a bit sickly, but we had to really become a family in order to make it feel as real as possible and as relatable as possible.”

“You can’t just show up and do the job and go home again; it becomes something else. We were lucky on this film that that really happened,” she continued.

Kate Winslet directs and stars opposite Helen Mirren, Timothy Spall, Toni Collette, and more in Goodbye June, which will arrive on Netflix December 24.