Mare of Easttown's final scene almost didn't happen, says Kate Winslet

During a live Instagram Q&A with Variety, Winslet addressed the final scene in which her character goes to the attic where her son died by suicide to finally confront her grief.

“We said, 'Does it feel like we’re doing two endings? Do we really need Mare going in the attic?'” Winslet recalled.

Winslet and creator Brad Ingelsby had thought about ending the series with an earlier scene in which Mare and Julianne Nicholson's Lori share a powerful moment. They decided to shoot the attic scene just in case, which is just as well as it provided the cathartic moment fans were waiting for.

Winslet offered more details about the powerful final scene, saying: "There is a universally shared complicated set of emotions that come hand-in-hand with what it feels like to be someone who’s left behind, grieving that loss, and you can’t start confronting grief until the time is right.

"That time might come right away or it could come two years later. At that moment — Mare going up into the attic — all I could hope was that people would come with her, in a way. That is for me what that moment is, and I think it is the beginning of her facing what she hasn’t been able to face.”

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