Exciting news courtesy The Hollywood Reporter: Kate Winslet is set to make her feature film directorial debut with the Netflix family drama “Goodbye June”. The Oscar winner will also produce and act in the movie, which will star Toni Collette, Johnny Flynn, Andrea Riseborough, Timothy Spall and Helen Mirren. Joe Anders, Winslet’s son with ex-husband Sam Mendes, wrote the screenplay and Kate Solomon will produce with Winslet. Netflix describes Goodbye June as a “touching, yet humorous” drama, “which sees a fractured group of siblings pull together under sudden and trying circumstances.” The England-set present-day drama will begin production soon in the U.K. Last year, Winslet explained she felt a sense of “urgency” and responsibility to women in Hollywood to step behind the camera. “So many people will say to me on film sets, people I work with and know well, whether it’s an actor or a crew member, they will say, ‘Why aren’t you directing?’ and I’ll go ‘No, no, no, please don’t say it. Stop saying it. Why does everyone keep saying it?’” she said. “But the more I’m not doing it now, with the need to change the culture, the more I feel like I’m actually letting down other women by not doing it. I’m really starting to feel that in quite a loud way.” She added of female directors, “The more of us that are doing it, the more will be inspiring others to do it.”

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