Hollywood star Kate Winslet, best known for her performances in ‘Titanic’, ‘Quills’ and ‘Hamlet’, is now all set to don the hat of a director.As per The Hollywood Reporter, Kate has come on board to direct feature film titled ‘Goodbye June’ for Netflix.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 film will go on floors soon in the U.K.Solomon also produced Winslet’s most recent feature, the Lee Miller biopic Lee about the model-turned-World War II photographer, which included Riseborough among its cast, as per The Hollywood Reporter. Winslet scored a Golden Globe nomination for her performance in the film, with Lee also nominated for the BAFTA for outstanding British film of the year. While promoting Lee last fall on the How to Fail podcast with Elizabeth Day, Winslet explained how though she had resisted calls to direct, partly due to the time commitment involved, she now felt a sense of “urgency” and responsibility to women in Hollywood to step behind the camera.
