ComingSoon spoke with Goodbye June stars Andrea Riseborough and Toni Collette about their new Netflix movie. The duo discussed working with director and star Kate Winslet on her directorial debut, their characters, and more. Starring a talented cast that also features Johnny Flynn and Timothy Spall, it is out on December 24, 2025.
“It’s nearly Christmas when an unexpected turn in their mother’s health thrusts four adult siblings, and their exasperating father, into chaos as they navigate messy family dynamics in the face of potential loss. But their quick-witted mother, June, orchestrates her decline on her own terms – with biting humor, blunt honesty, and a lot of love,” says the synopsis.
Tyler Treese: Andrea, you’ve worked with Kate before, so I was really interested in what stood out about working with her behind the camera since she had that pre-existing relationship. Did it feel different?
Andrea Riseborough: Kate has always been a creative person who holds a lot in every space. So when she’s number one on set, she really takes that responsibility on and is very good at caring for everybody. This felt like a very natural extension of that, given her many decades of experience in film. She knows technically how everything works in a seamless and thorough way.
She has a huge emotional capacity, and that’s a very rare combination, actually, for those two things to exist in a director. To be emotionally very astute, and also technically have all of the knowledge. So she’s one of the most knowledgeable directors I’ve ever worked with for that reason. It was a real seamless joy.
Toni, I thought you were lovely in this film. Helen’s such a free spirit, and although she shouldn’t wear yellow, she’s very lively and part of this film that’s so centered around grief. You have emotional moments, but what did you like most about bringing some levity and good vibes to this film? Because she plays a really important role.
Toni Collette: Oh, thank you for recognizing that. I love that she wears yellow, like she is sunshine [laughs]. She’s so positive, and she works at that. I think she moved away from this family for a reason. I think she’s someone who has dedicated her life to betterment and really finding her sovereign self and really journeying and becoming one with the entire cosmos.
That’s not a small undertaking. It comes from a place of maybe a little bit of emotional lack, so having to return to her family, I think that’s why she has that meditation as she’s arriving in the taxi, where she’s like creating a wall of light around herself to protect herself. What she learns is that actually she can be herself and she’s accepted within this group of people, and she kind of returns to the fold during this story. But it was really fun to play her. Honestly, she’s why I love people who just have the guts to be themselves, because it allows everybody else around them to relax as well. But yes, she was definitely very, very fun. I’m very fond of her. I miss her.
Andrea, this movie made me tear up several times, but the most emotional moment was when you and Kate finally had that heart-to-heart as sisters and finally communicated openly after all these years of not being able to do that. How was it filming that scene in the hallway? Because it just felt so honest and true.
Andrea Riseborough: Well, it was actually years in the making, but then also practically it was months in the making that scene because we actually went about two months before we started to shoot the film. Kate and I went there with the camera crew, our camera op, and a very small reduced crew, and wrecked that space in a way, and began to speak the scene.
There were then 11 different versions of that scene. So all of its different incarnations with notes and different things that Joe [Anders] had taken in, we actually ended up shooting it in its purest form, as it came out that we actually really shot the first version that he’d written in the end. Sometimes you have to go on that journey. It was really, really by the time we got there, and [got] to do it, it was such a huge release. It was really special. A moment that I’ll never forget. And I cannot believe that Joe Anders, our writer at 19, was able to capture so much confusion, humility, and human experience. It’s just astounding, really.
Thanks to Andrea Riseborough and Toni Collette for taking the time to talk about Goodbye June.
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