The British actress began her career in TV, with minor roles in little-known 1990s shows Dark Season and Get Back, and she is going back to her roots in new mini-series Mildred Pierce, a role which won Joan Crawford an Oscar for her 1945 movie of the same name.
And Winslet admits she struggled to adjust to the long working hours and gruelling schedule of the TV show after so many years making movies.
She says, “It never occurred to me, beyond the moment of reading those scripts, ‘Wow, this is television, therefore it’s going to be different somehow’. Sure, we have more to shoot… but the level of determination and level of focus was so much more intense than certainly any film I’ve ever been a part (of).
“Film, schmilm (sic) – I’m telling you television is so much harder. It didn’t affect the work ethic in any way other than we had more story to tell, which was a luxury, and less time to work to that goal. But that just meant we were hyper-focused.”
