Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVKate Winslet spent two years with the character of Mare Sheehan, a small town cop, mother and grandmother for HBO’s limited series “Mare of Easttown.” Becoming this woman wasn’t just about adopting a Delaware County accent, pulling her hair back into a ponytail, keeping her face free of makeup and never drinking water (look closely, Winslet says, it’s all coffee and beer) — although those were all essential elements for Winslet, too — it was also about tapping into a deep sense of grief and guilt over the loss of her character’s adult son to suicide.
That’s why, months after wrapping production on the project, Winslet tells Variety she has felt a “huge crater” in her life, where Mare previously.
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