Our bodies aren’t perfect; they change as we age and might not be flattering at every stage. It’s a reality which the entertainment industry seldom addresses. They have the tools to edit those imperfections after all. One such offer was made to Kate Winslet by her Mare of Easttown director, Craig Zobel. However, the actress refused to let the team edit out her ‘bulgy belly’ from the sex scene in the new series.

In Mare of Easttown, Kate Winslet plays a detective investigating a murder in a small town near Philadelphia. She is also a grandmother in the HBO Max series. In a recent interview, she revealed that a sex scene showed “bulgy bit of belly”, which the director offered to remove. But her response to it was, “Don’t you dare.”

Kate also said that she sent back the poster of the crime drama twice as she felt it had been altered too much. The Oscar-winning actress told the New York Times, “I’m like ‘Guys, I know how many lines I have by the side of my eye, please put them all back.’ I said to my husband, ‘Am I OK with that? Is it all right that I’m playing a middle-aged woman who is a grandmother who does really make a habit of having one-night stands?’ He’s like ‘Kate, it’s great.’”

The actress further added, “Listen, I hope that in playing Mare as a middle-aged woman – I will be 46 – in October I guess that’s why people have connected with this character in the way that they have done because there are clearly no filters. She’s 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. I think we’re starved of that a bit.”