Kate Winslet says the line between reality and fiction became “blurred” when she filmed alongside her daughter, Mia Threapleton, on a new drama about mental health. I Am Ruth, which will air on Channel 4 later this year, is an instalment of the Bafta-nominated and female-led drama anthology series I Am, created by filmmaker Dominic Savage.
The fictional storyline for the two-hour programme, which looks at the mental health crisis affecting young people in the UK, was developed and co-authored by Winslet and Savage. She told Radio Times: “It’s a funny one, because the line between what’s real and what isn’t definitely becomes blurred.
“Normally as an actor you can set yourself some fairly robust boundaries so that you are, to a certain degree, emotionally protected from what you sometimes have to deal with. But I knew that all those boundaries had to disappear on this.”
