Mildred Pierce

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1. #001

   Director and screenwriter Todd Haynes decided that every scene should be from Mildred's point of view, and therefore wanted Kate Winslet to appear in every scene of the five-hour miniseries. Winslet publicly stated that this was her most difficult shoot since Titanic (1997), spending about 18 weeks on set.

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2. #002

   The miniseries follows the book very closely, at times word for word. It differs greatly from the first and so far only other Mildred Pierce adaptation (1945), which starred Joan Crawford.

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3. #003

   In the DVD commentary, director Todd Haynes notes that Kate Winslet told Guy Pearce on set that he had been one of her biggest crushes as a teenager in the United Kingdom and that he had appeared in the long-running Australian soap opera Neighbors (1985). Pearce, too, had been in love with Winslet since seeing her in Heavenly Creatures (1994).

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4. #004

   Kate Winslet had 66 different costume changes over the course of the series.

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5. #005

   Evan Rachel Wood is only 12 years younger than Kate Winslet, who plays her mother.

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6. #006

   The story is set in Los Angeles, but it was shot in New York, and because of an unusually cold spring the palm trees on the set had to be kept heated in a greenhouse to prevent them from withering.

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7. #007

   Lena Dunham was cast in a brief nurse role, but she was fired and replaced on set.

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8. #008

   Kate Winslet and Guy Pearce would act together again in another HBO miniseries, Mare of Easttown (2021), once again playing love interests.

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9. #009

   The miniseries is adapted from James M. Cain's 1941 novel of the same name, which had previously been adapted into the film Mildred Pierce (1945).

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10. #010

    Seven-time Oscar nominee (and one-time winner) Kate Winslet shares the distinction of being nominated alongside two of her female co-stars. For Georgia (1995), Mare Winningham and Winslet competed for Best Supporting Actress in 1995, while for Frozen River (2008), Melissa Leo and Winslet competed for Best Actress in 2008 for The Reader (2008). Neither won for the first, and Winslet won the second.

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11. #011

    Mildred Pierce is left to raise her two children alone after her husband cheats on her. This mirrored Kate Winslet's own reported family situation, in which her husband had allegedly cheated on her and she remained the single parent of two children.

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12. #012

    The two lead actors — Kate Winslet and Guy Pearce — are British and Australian respectively, but both play Americans.

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