Kate Winslet to Make Directorial Debut with Netflix Movie "Goodbye June"

Kate Winslet is set to make her directorial debut with with “Goodbye June,” a contemporary family movie that is being produced for Netflix.

Along with directing and producing the movie, Winslet will also star in it alongside Toni Collette, Johnny Flynn, Andrea Riseborough, Timothy Spall, and Helen Mirren.

Kate Solomon is producing with Winslet, with Working Title as executive producers.

Penned by Joe Anders, Winslet’s son, the movie is set in present-day England and is described as “touching, yet humorous” drama, which sees "a fractured group of siblings pull together under sudden and trying circumstances,” the synopsis reads.

"Goodbye June" will go into production on location in the U.K. later this year.

Although Winslet has never directed a film, she was highly involved in Ellen Kuras’s “Lee,” which she produced and starred in as American photographer Lee Miller.

She was nominated alongside Solomon for outstanding British film at the BAFTA awards.

While promoting "Lee" last fall on the How to Fail podcast with Elizabeth Day, Winslet explained how though she had resisted calls to direct, partly due to the time commitment involved, she now felt a sense of “urgency” and responsibility to women in Hollywood to step behind the camera.

“So many people will say to me on film sets, people I work with and know well, whether it’s an actor or a crew member, they will say, ‘Why aren’t you directing?’ and I’ll go ‘No, no, no, please don’t say it. Stop saying it. Why does everyone keep saying it?’” she explained. “But the more I’m not doing it now, with the need to change the culture, the more I feel like I’m actually letting down other women by not doing it. I’m really starting to feel that in quite a loud way.”

The "Titanic" actress added of female directors, “The more of us that are doing it, the more will be inspiring others to do it.”

And Winslet said she felt ready to helm a film because she now understands the technical side of filmmaking.

“There’s no way I’m ever going to do something unless I really know how to do it properly,” she said.

In addition to "Lee", Winslet most recently starred in the HBO limited series "The Regime", for which she also received a Golden Globe nomination, earning the rare distinction of being nominated for multiple roles at the same ceremony. 

She won the best actress Oscar in 2009 for her role in "The Reader".