United Kingdom, Dec. 8 -- Kate Winslet was forced to relive her mother's death while filming heartbreaking scenes for her new movie Goodbye June.

Winslet, 50, made her directorial debut by taking charge of the drama, which was written by her 21-year-old son Joe Anders and follows four siblings who gather around their dying mother when she takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.

The actress has now revealed it forced her to reexamine the emotions she felt when she lost her mother Sally in 2017 after a battle with ovarian cancer. She told The Times newspaper: "There were days when I thought: 'Oh, I'm living through it again'.

"I had to get across the monotony that comes when somebody has cancer for a long time. You become num...