
The actress stars as a depressed housewife alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in the movie, about a young couple living with their two children in a Connecticut suburb in the 1950s.
And a scene in which Winslet's character phones her children before taking a life-changing step was so difficult to shoot for the mother-of-two that she was physically sick.
She tells British Elle magazine, "I just kept thinking, 'She's a mother to a girl and boy almost identical ages to my own.' It got to me. There was only so much my body could take from all that churned up emotion and I threw up".
I just kept thinking, 'She's a mother to a girl and boy almost identical ages to my own