‘I lived out moments of my mother’s passing I never saw’: Kate Winslet on grief, going red and Goodbye June

‘Not falling apart in the corner was a challenge’ … Andrea Riseborough, Kate Winslet, Toni Collette and Johnny Flynn. Photograph: Suki Dhanda/The Guardian

In 2017, Sally Bridges-Winslet died of cancer. She was 71. It was, her youngest daughter said, “like the north star just dropped out of the sky”.

It would have been even worse, says Kate Winslet today, had the family not pulled together. “I do have tremendous amounts of peace and acceptance around what happened because of how we were able to make it for her.”