Kate Winslet refused to have her stomach edited in Mare of Easttown

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published 1 June 2021

Though often the picture of glamour, Kate Winslet went unfiltered for her starring role in Mare of Easttown, and acknowledged it was a change.

"We're so used to seeing this stuff airbrushed away," the actress told The New York Times.

She described her character as "a fully functioning, flawed woman with a body and a face that moves in a way that is synonymous with her age and her life and where she comes from." So when the director proposed cutting "a bulgy bit of belly" from a sex scene, she objected. Winslet also rejected the show's promotion poster twice for being "too retouched." "I know how many lines I have by the side of my eye, please put them all back," she said. Makeup artists left her "sunspots and imperfections."