Kate Winslet: ‘The Mental Health Crisis Amongst Teenagers Doesn’t Seem To Be Getting Any Better’
msn.comBAFTA TV Awards. The Channel 4 film beat Netflix’s The House and BBC Three feature Life and Death in the Warehouse to the coveted prize.
The film delves into the fractured relationship between a mother and her teenage daughter. Winslet plays Ruth, a concerned mother who witnesses her teenage daughter Freya (played by Winslet’s real-life daughter with director Jim Threapleton, Mia Threapleton), as she becomes consumed by the pressures of social media and sinks into a deep depression.
As the award was announced, Winslet looked in utter shock. Creator Dominic Savage thanked the 'Marvelous' Winslet and Threapleton, along with crediting EP Krishnendu Majumdar, the Chair of BAFTA, who runs the show’s indie Me+You Productions.
He said, 'I’d like to thank Channel 4 for supporting such creativity because it’s not easy to get behind but they have and they inspire me to make more of these films,' he added.
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