New York Times: Kate Winslet Talks About Her ‘Mare’ Delaware County Experience
Kate Winslet is emotional about ‘Mare of Easttown’ coming to an end.
The popular HBO series apparently even found a fan in First Lady Jill Biden, writes Maureen Down for The New York Times.
Winslet’s overwhelmed by how audiences responded to her character, how they fell “in love with this wildly flawed, messy, broken, fragmented, difficult woman.”
Winslet said she prepared more for Mare of Easttown than any other role in her life.
For local flavor, the show’s costume designer imprinted on Wawa patrons for Mare’s flannel, inexpensive T-shirts, Ocean City sweatshirts and “bad jeans.”
“Whenever we’d find something unflattering,” Ms. Winslet recalled, “we’d be jumping up and down like, ‘Yes! We’re wearing this.’”
Winslet, a vegetarian, confessed there was no meat and no onions in those hoagies consumed in the show.
“I felt really, really bad because I know onions are a very important part of a hoagie,” she said.
Then there’s that Delco accent thing.
Winslet had to change the way the muscles in her face moved to emulate the Delco dialect.
“Frankly, I thought, ‘Delaware County, oh, it’ll be fine. The vowel sounds a little bit different, but it’ll be fine.’ Honestly, it was just so hard.”
Read the entire interview at The New York Times.
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