Inside Kate Winslet’s Philly culture crash course for ‘Mare of Easttown’

A lot has been written about the way Kate Winslet mastered her character’s Philadelphia accent in HBO’s “Mare of Easttown” — we already knew H20 was important to human health, but the way the British actor says wooder like a good Pennsylvanian quenched Twitter’s thirst. The popular convenience-store chain proved to be a crucial character-building resource, the actress revealed in the latest episode of the L.A. Times podcast “The Envelope.” “It almost felt like a mythical place … Wawa,” Winslet says. Television How Kate Winslet mastered the near-impossible accent TV fans can’t stop talking about The “accent nerd” went to extraordinary lengths to sound like a Pennsylvania native for HBO’s “Mare of Easttown.” Here’s how she did it. If HBO opts for a “Mare of Easttown” spinoff, we can only hope it’s a love story between Peters’ Detective Colin Zabel and the carb-heavy delicacy.