The emotional Christmas-set drama – which was written by Winslet's 21-year-old son Joe Anders – includes key roles for Timothy Spall, Andrea Riseborugh, Toni Collette and Johnny Flynn alongside Winslet herself, but perhaps the real star of the show is Helen Mirren.
The iconic actor plays the title character, an elderly mother of four whose terminal cancer has taken a turn for the worse during the festive season. As you'd expect, she's excellent in the role – but she had to break a rule she'd previously set for herself in order to accept the part in the first place, as Winslet explained during an exclusive interview with RadioTimes.com.
She added: "I did speak to her on the phone. I told her the story. I said that I was going to direct it and then she shared, 'Ah, actually, no. I don't want to ever play anyone who has cancer, and I don't want to play anyone with dementia.'
On hearing the good news, Winslet immediately passed it on to Anders, explaining that neither of the two could believe that Mirren had actually said yes.
"I mean, Helen herself, she's 80 years old [but] she looks flipping 60," she said. "She's physically extremely agile, you know, her mind is unbelievably sharp. She's funny, she's practical, she's a mensch."
"That made sense to me, because I'm a little bit like that as an actress myself," she said. "But she said, 'I just need you to be practical, make sure that you tell me the story day so I can work backwards and figure how many days until the nativity [that takes place at the end of the film]'.
Goodbye June is currently showing in UK cinemas and will be released on Netflix on Wednesday 24th December.
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