EXCLUSIVE : When I sit down with Kate Winslet , she reveals that the very thought of the Goodbye June screenplay written by her son Joe Anders , 21, being shot by another filmmaker made her feel “like I’d been stabbed in the gut.”

The Oscar-winning star wanted a stab at directing the film herself.

Winslet has worked with giants of cinema such as James Cameron on Titanic and Avatar movies; Stephen Daldry on The Reader ; Sam Mendes, her ex husband – and father of Anders – on Revolutionary Road ; and the superb work she achieved through collaborations with Francis Lee on Ammonite and Todd Haynes with Mildred Pierce .

Winslet was already set to produce and play a role in Goodbye June , a film that her son had begun writing aged 19 while on a screen-writing

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