Kate Winslet Insisted Her 'Belly' Not Be Edited Out of 'Mare of Easttown'

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Kate Winslet's performance in HBO Max hit murder mystery series Mare of Easttown deserves an Oscar — and so does her mindset when it comes to body acceptance.

The actress told the New York Times that the show's director said he would remove a shot of "a bulgy bit of belly" during a sex scene in the HBO miniseries and that she replied "Don't you dare!"

The actress wanted to realistically portray every aspect of her character and even pushed back when she looked too retouched in an early promo poster.

According to the interview, she sent back a retouched promo poster saying she knows “how many lines I have by the side of my eye” and asked designers to put them back in.

“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,” the Titanic star explained. “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.”

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