Kate Winslet in “Insurgent” (2015).Photo:Andrew Cooper/Summit Entertainment/courtesy Everett Collection
Andrew Cooper/Summit Entertainment/courtesy Everett Collection
Kate Winslet’s son went directly to the source when curious about his mom’sDivergentfate.
Veronica Roth, the author behind the books that inspired the films, tells PEOPLE that, while visiting the set once,Winslet’s son Joe, now 19, asked her about killing off Jeanine in the second installment,Insurgent.
“The best thing that happened was probably when her son was on set and he came up to me and he said, ‘Why did you kill my mom?'” recalled Roth, 35. “I said, ‘I didn’t know it would be your mom when I did it,’ And he was like, ‘That makes sense.’ That was it. He walked away after that.”
The threeDivergentfilms came out in 2014, 2015 and 2016. Roth remembers Winslet, 48, as being “so friendly” during the making of the movies.
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Kate Winslet and Veronica Roth at the “Divergent” premiere March 18, 2014 in Los Angeles.Kevin Winter/Getty
Kevin Winter/Getty
Winslet was pregnant with herthird child, son Bear, when she filmedDivergent. She revealed back in 2013 that she took the part in the YA franchise partially as a way to impress her kids. She’s also mom todaughter Mia, 23.
Kate Winslet in May 2022.John Phillips/Getty
“In fact, my daughter, two days ago, came home from school and went, ‘Mom! You’re never going to believe it. Rufus came up to me at school and said, ‘Is your mom really inDivergent? Is there going to be a premiere? Can you get me a ticket?’ "
Winslet joked, “My daughter suddenly [had a] newfound respect. ‘My mom is actually really cool.’ I’m just going to go with that: I did it because I wanted my kids to think I was cool.”
Since wrapping up theDivergentseries, Roth has written several other books, includingPoster Girl, now in paperback, and, coming in May,When Among Crows. She says, though, herDivergentcharacters continue to live on in her imagination.
“I’ll be like, ‘What if that person had lived? What if a completely different plot point had happened or a different perspective?’ But I don’t think about it that often,” says Roth.
“I’ve got a lot of characters living in my head now, but every so often. I think they were the strongest point of the series, the characters, so they’re the part that lives on the most for me.”
source: people.com
