Kate Winslet is opening up about the pleasure of working with her children.
The 50-year-old actress spoke about her new and old projects at the screening of Goodbye June N.Y.C. on Monday, and spoke working with daughter Mia Threapleton, and son Joe Anders.
“I think what I’ve honestly learned about my kids is like, they’re just such good people,” Winslet, who shares Mia and Joe with her ex-husband Sam Mendes, tells PEOPLE. “They’re great people. They’re extremely talented. Actually, neither of them really have an awareness of that at all.”
“They’re very humble,” Winslet adds of her children. “They just love the job, they love the work, and they know that they’ve been really fortunate to have worked with extraordinary people from whom they’ve already learned a lot.”
“Because they’ve grown up listening to me learning things and reporting back those stories of something cool that happened on set or something that someone said to me that was really helpful,” the Titanic star says.
“So I just feel excited for them, really, for what’s to come because they can handle it,” she tells PEOPLE.
Speaking further of working with Joe in Goodbye June N.Y.C, the expert added:
“When it came to the point of the screenplay being ready, I was going to produce it. I was going to play the character of Julia, and I knew that we were in a position to find a director. And I suddenly couldn’t let it go,” she told host Jimmy Kimmel on Jimmy Kimmel Live last month.
She added, “And I said to him, look, I would love to direct it because when you give it to a director, it becomes theirs, which is exactly the right thing that should happen. But I didn’t want that for him.”
“I wanted him to remain a part of it. I wanted him to experience seeing this beautiful thing that he had created come to life,” she explained. “And he happens to be very, very smart about film, and having him there with me every day was just fantastic.”
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