What Would Kate Do? Direct a film! Goodbye June or Goodbye, June ? Bringing people together.

Excited to be back for another episode of What Would Kate Do. We have a most amazing guest and interviewer: Anne from Germany. Anne & I met because of our interest in the Liverpool Football Club, but as we talked more, we discovered another even greater mutual interest: Movies, their stories, and that our favorite actress is Kate Winslet. One of Anne’s passions is journalism, interviewing, & critical analysis, so we knew this would be a perfect opportunity to do an interview together. And it was so much fun!

We take a deep dive into the reasons for this podcast, what inspired Angie to start this podcast, how Kate inspired Angie to get back into acting, some acting related thoughts, and what are the goals of this podcast. We also talk about Goodbye June, Kate’s upcoming directorial debut, starring Kate, Helen Mirren, Andrea Riseborough, Toni Collette, Timothy Spall, and Johnny Flynn. Written by her son Joe Anders. We are SO EXCITED for this upcoming movie, released in select U.K. & U.S. theatres on December 12, 2025, and released on Netflix on December 24, 2025. As fans, we’ve noticed some exciting revelations based on the released pictures and story, & we share here!

Goodbye June starts at 53:20 (53 minutes, 20 seconds). We discuss why we’re so excited, the possible story, what might have been the inspirations, the potential messages, our hopes for the film, comments about the cast, seeing it the day it comes out, and more. And a special thank you to Toni Collette for sharing some BTS which may indicate that the title of the film could be “Goodbye, June”, and the differences in meaning with the comma in the title.

Small Warning: There is a mention of “grape” (take away the g) when Angie is asked about a possible story she may want to write about and share, for a close friend of hers.

Timestamps:

· How Kate inspired Angie to get back into acting: 1:38

· Surprising answer to which one of Kate’s characters Angie would play: 2:55

· How Angie loves that Kate always has a “secret” when playing a character that nobody else knows about & how this creates an even richer character: 23:53

· What is the most difficult genre to act in: 28:45

· Toni Collette being Angie’s dream actress to work with if she couldn’t pick Kate: 31:25 but would be too intimidated, and Anne reminds Angie of similar doubts Kate had working with Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman: 33:03

· A funny Asian take and cultural perspective on Ang Lee telling Kate: “Don’t worry, you’ll get better”: 34:30

· Angie’s dream role. Starts off funny but then gets serious: 38:35

· How Angie would love to see Kate drive a fast car in a film: 40:26

· How Angie would trust Kate in any scene that involves water: 51:21

· Goodbye June: 53:20

· How the film review site film.dimension (Instagram) plans to review Goodbye June the night it comes out: 1:15:59

· Ultimate goal of this podcast and what we hope to take away from this podcast (yes, answer is Kate related and very inspirational, and thank you Kate for bringing the best people into our lives): 1:17:55

· At the end, there's a small vocal treat from Kate about directing (thx to the “How To Fail” podcast).

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To celebrate the 30th anniversary of 1994’s Heavenly Creatures starring Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey, my podcast “What Would Kate Do?” looks back at this movie from an acting perspective. But I was stalling on recording it, thinking what could I possibly learn from an acting perspective that we haven’t already learned from Kate in the most powerful ways since then. Then I realized there are similarities between this film and the most recent movie Kate is promoting, which is LEE, about the photojournalist Lee Miller.

I talk about many things including:

· Parallels in how Kate uses her eyes to convey emotion in both films, and how much more she can now tell with her eyes in a movie like Lee.

· How Kate has grown as an actress from then to now.

· Times where a crying Juliet Hulme reminded me of a broken-down Lee Miller. I think I’ve seen Kate cry on screen so many times, it’s starting to look “familiar”. Where in Mare of Easttown she manages to hold the tears in, which has a totally different (and powerful) effect.

· A reference to “hard dick day, boys” on set, that is unsettling in today’s #metoo environment.

· What if the Kate now goes back to do Heavenly Creatures, what additional layers she’d be able to add to the character, due to her many acting and life experiences she’s had since.

· How utterly unfair it is of me to do an acting podcast on Heavenly Creatures Kate when it was her very first film role, and she since has had 30 more years of acting and life experiences to access in her craft.

· Kate is nominated for a 2025 Golden Globe playing Lee Miller in Lee: Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama. (Also nominated for playing Elena Vernham in the Regime: Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or a Motion Picture Made for Television).

· Melanie Lynskey also demonstrated a powerful performance in this film, in her first role EVER (movie or TV).

· The differences between Heavenly Creatures and Lee from a female empowerment perspective. Lee Miller has much more power, strength, courage, determination, resilience, kindness, goodness, etc. to showcase. We can be inspired by Lee, whereas we can’t say the same about Juliet in Heavenly Creatures, though we can perhaps understand Juliet’s emotions / feelings. And it’s a great movie!

· Thank you to @adoringkatew on X for finding and sharing so many Kate Winslet news / interviews, especially during the recent Lee promotions. Can’t help but think she’s played a part in Kate’s nominations too. 😊

· How Kate is so proud of her Golden Globe nomination for Lee, and how it will inspire more people to see it. I’ve seen it 6 times now, definitely worth seeing so that you are informed of the vital contributions Lee Miller made.

Interview clip at beginning is from a recent interview with Pete Hammond.

Heavenly Creatures stars Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey, and is directed by Peter Jackson. LEE stars Kate Winslet, Alexander Skarsgård, Andrea Riseborough, Marion Cotillard, Josh O'Connor, Andy Samberg & Noémie Merlant.

#Lee #LeeMiller #LeeMovie #HeavenlyCreatures #KateWinslet

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"Bless our love, always." To celebrate The Regime starring Kate Winslet & Matthias Schoenaerts, coming out in the U.K. on April 8, and now that I've seen 5/6 episodes, I can go more into "What Would Kate Do". This is not a review nor are there spoilers. It's about what we can learn from Kate from an acting perspective. Can you guess who the child is that says "sorry" in the clip at the beginning? (wink)

This is a different type of episode as I'll be mostly following some GIFs created by https://elenavernham.tumblr.com/ in this analysis. After quickly looking at scenes with Martha Plimpton and Hugh Grant. How Kate pulls off playing someone who is narcissistic & repulsive, yet "oddly lovable" (Kate's words).

Some mic problems which I'll fix by next episode (just a few words cut out).

Directed by Stephen Frears. Stars Kate Winslet, Martha Plimpton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Guillaume Gallienne, Hugh Grant, and Andrea Riseborough.

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