 Winslet, who weighed at the time, played the daughter of an obese woman in it.While filming, an off-hand comment from the director Diarmuid Lawrence about the likeness between her and the actress who played her mother prompted Winslet to lose weight.She next took on the role of the young daughter of a bankrupt middle-aged man (played by Ray Winstone) in the television sitcom "Get Back" (1992–93).