Kate Winslet sets The Spot as her next TV project with Disney-owned production company
Kate Winslet has set her next project — a TV series called The Spot.
Winslet will star in and executive produce the series from production company A24 and studio 20th Television, which is owned by Disney. The Spot is slated for American streaming service Hulu, whose titles are usually available in Australia on Disney+.
Winslet will portray a successful surgeon whose marriage comes under immense pressure when her schoolteacher husband suspects she is responsible for the death of a child in a hit-and-run.
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Even though she is best known for her work in films including Titanic, Heavenly Creatures and Little Children, she had an impeccable run on TV until earlier this year.
The Spot could be a redemption for Winslet’s HBO series The Regime, in which she played the unhinged dictator of an unnamed and fictionalised Central European country in a cast that also included Matthias Schoenaerts, Andrea Riseborough and Hugh Grant.
The series, created by Succession writer Will Tracy, garnered mixed reviews and was generally seen as a rare misstep in Winslet’s TV choices. It was her third collaboration with HBO.
In 2011, she played the title role in Mildred Pierce, a miniseries created by Todd Haynes, which told the story of a divorcee trying to establish and run a restaurant during the Great Depression. It was adapted from James M. Cain’s novel, which had previously been made for the screen in 1945 in a movie starring Joan Crawford.
Winslet won an Emmy for that role, and again in 2021 for playing the messy detective in Mare of Easttown, a crime drama in which she was praised for, among other things, perfecting the Delco accent specific to the Philadelphia area.
Winslet’s next release is Lee, a biopic of famed photojournalist Lee Miller, a former model who became a war correspondent for Vogue during World War II. It also stars Marion Cotillard, Noemie Merlant, Josh O’Connor and Alexander Skarsgard.
It’s a passion project for Winslet who has been developing the film since 2015. She has described the process of getting the film off the ground as a “phenomenal fight”. At one point during pre-production, she ended up covering two weeks of wages with her own money. Lee is due to be released in Australia on October 24.
Winslet is a seven-time Oscar nominee (for Sense and Sensibility, Titanic, Iris, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Little Children, The Reader and Steve Jobs) and won in 2009 for The Reader.
She has won five BAFTAs, four SAGs and two Emmys.
The Spot is written by Ed Solomon, who is best known for his screenplays for Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Men in Black and Now You See Me. He is known for his recent collaborations with filmmaker Steven Soderbergh.
Solomon wrote the screenplay for Soderbergh’s movie No Sudden Moves and also created or co-created the limited series Mosaic and Full Circle, which were both directed by Soderbergh.
Mosaic was an experimental series in which the murder mystery, starring Sharon Stone, was supplemented beyond the episodes by an interactive gaming app that allowed audiences to see the story from the perspectives of different characters or view documents and materials in the investigation.
