This project is very personal, almost intimate. The script was written by her son Joe Alfie Winslet Mendes (21), from her second marriage to director Sam Mendes (60), from whom she divorced in 2010. The young man has chosen to use the artistic name Joe Anders.
Before taking this big step, Joe had debuted as an actor at 15 years old in 1917 under the direction of his father and later in I Am Ruth (2022) where he shared the screen with his mother and his sister, Mia Threapleton (24). Mia was born from Kate's first marriage to actor Jim Threapleton, and she is also another nepo baby who debuted as an actress in Shadows (20) just after finishing high school.
Additionally, he has started filming the series "El cabo del miedo," where he will coincide with Javier Bardem and Amy Adams, and is scheduled to premiere next year.
Joe wanted to take another step in his artistic career and, therefore, decided to specialize in scriptwriting, so the final project at the prestigious National Film and Television School was the story of the movie.
Kate and Joe shone on the red carpet in London at The Curzon Mayfair on Wednesday night where they presented this film inspired by the tribute and farewell that the family made when the actress's mother passed away.
The nepo babies of the protagonist of Titanic have started to fly solo, so many wonder if her youngest son, Bear (11), born from her last marriage to Edward Abel Smith, nephew of Richard Branson (75), the millionaire founder of Virgin who recently lost his wife Joan Templeman, will also follow in the family's footsteps.
Joe's childhood has been privileged. While his parents were together, he lived in a countryside mansion in the Cotswolds, one of the most coveted areas by English celebrities like the Beckhams, and in a duplex penthouse in Chelsea, New York, which Kate sold four years ago for 6.8 million dollars.
For the past decade, Joe and his stepsiblings have been living with Kate and Edward in a seaside mansion in West Wittering, in Sussex county (England), a quiet place they chose to be away from paparazzi. Winslet has expressed her displeasure several times at how tabloids have portrayed her private life.
To date, there is little information regarding the private life of Joe Anders. Besides acting, he is such a music enthusiast that during the pandemic, he composed some songs.
Apart from this, Kate Winslet revealed some of her personal side after her divorce from Sam Mendes. "For us, it is important that the children have a normal childhood, so we go to the park, play ball, go to a museum, watch a movie together, or just hang out at home playing Monopoly," she stated.