Kate Winslet: SNL’s ‘Mare of Easttown’ Parody Validated My Career

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So what was Kate Winslet’s greatest achievement in her career? If you ask her, she jokingly points to the Saturday Night Live parody of Mare of Easttown, entitled Murdur, Durdur, writes Pat Ralph for PhillyVoice.

“I have never felt so validated as an actor in my entire life as I now do because of Murdur, Durdur,” Winslet told Entertainment Weekly.

The sketch played out as a commercial for a show, Murdur, Durdur, which echoed the Mare of Easttown plot.

Kate McKinnon impersonated Winslet’s character, Mare Sheehan.

Winslet said she and her family frequently re-watch the skit lampooning the HBO miniseries that was partially filmed in Coatesville.

“Every now and then in our household, we’ll be like, ‘Oh, should we just quickly watch it?’ And we’ll crowd around the iPhone crying with laughter,” Winslet said.

A focus of the SNL sketch was the local cultural references and the now-famous Delco accent.

Winslet has described the accent as one of her most challenging, noting it made her “throw things.”

The British actress has been nominated for an Emmy for outstanding lead actress in a limited series for her work in Mare of Easttown.

Read more about Kate Winslet at PhillyVoice.

See part of the Kate Winslet interview here.

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