Kate Winslet was "nervous" when she agreed to star in ‘Wonder Wheel’.
The 42-year-old actress stars as Ginny in the recently released Woody Allen movie, and has said that whilst she was "incredibly excited" to work with the filmmaker, she found her character – who is an emotionally volatile former actress now working as a waitress, and is married to a man she hates – difficult to play, and was worried her performance would go "wrong".
She said: "I just didn’t think I knew how to play the part, I just didn’t think I had the stuff to be able to do it. Everything Ginny feels is gigantic … She’s an awful mother, and I don’t like playing people who are bad mothers … There were many, many reasons why I was nervous to play it, because I felt like I could have got it wrong so easily."
Kate admitted she was considering voicing her concerns to Allen and giving up the role she was offered, but her 17-year-old daughter Mia – whom she has with former husband Jim Threapleton – convinced her to go for it.
The blonde beauty – who also has 14-year-old son Joe with ex-husband Sam Mendes, and four-year-old son Bear with current spouse Ned Rocknroll – ended up in awe of the filming process, and has praised Woody Allen for his "unbelievable" female characters.
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter’s ‘Awards Chatter’ podcast, she said: "He writes these very, very layered female characters that are unbelievable. I mean, just unbelievably full and rich and vulnerable and strong. It was like driving very, very fast in a really difficult-to-maneuver car with a seatbelt that kept coming unclipped."
Kate Winslet ‘nervous’ starring in Wonder Wheel
