‘The Regime’ Star Kate Winslet and Creator Will Tracy on That Chaotic Finale, Season 2 Chances and ‘Improvising Up a F—ing Storm!’
variety.comHunter Ingram SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from the series finale of “The Regime,” now streaming on Max.
The finale of HBO’s limited series “The Regime” may have thrown Chancellor Elena Vernham to the wolves in her own war-torn country, but Kate Winslet was just happy that her character finally got to stretch her legs. “It was actually wonderful to be outside,” Winslet tells Variety. “The byproduct of Elena’s insecurities and mental issues was that we were always filming inside, either in real locations or in studios.
The great gift of Vienna and some of those phenomenal palaces was incredible. But this is a pretty interior show, so the finale was a blast to be running around in the freezing cold in the U.K.” Heading into the conclusion of “The Regime,” the consequences of Elena’s disregard for the people of her unnamed, fictionalized Central European country came crashing through the palace’s front door.
The insurgents of the brewing civil war seized her vulnerable fortress, and claimed a few valued staff members –– RIP sweet Agnes (Andrea Riseborough).
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