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Kate Winslet: I never wanted to direct, but couldn't say no to this

Kate Winslet says she never set out to become a director - but after reading her son's first screenplay, she simply "couldn't let it go".

In 2023, Joe Anders, whose father is director Sam Mendes, signed up to a screenwriting course at the National Film and Television School. His mother read one of his assignments and insisted it was worth making into a film - so they did.

Anders created a story around adult siblings who reunite around Christmastime to say goodbye to their dying mother. Abiding by Mark Twain's phrase "write what you know.

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