14 DAY TRIAL // A few months ago, Oscar winning actress Kate Winslet was speaking about doing a movie – and shooting love scenes with Leonardo DiCaprio – while her husband Sam Mendes was directing them. She believed there was something “cathartic” in making a film about a broken marriage and given her almost 7-year relationship to Mendes, it certainly seemed she was on the right track.
This only makes the announcement from a spokesperson all the more shocking, as CNN can also confirm. Mendes and Winslet, also dubbed one of the most talented couples in Hollywood, a golden couple by all standards, have decided to end their marriage and will go their separate ways. The statement confirming the split also says it’s amicable and that the two will put all differences aside to ensure they raise the two children whose custody they share.
“Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet has split from her husband, Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes, after almost seven years of marriage, a lawyer for the couple said Monday. The separation happened ‘earlier this year,’ Keith Schilling said. ‘The split is entirely amicable and is by mutual agreement,’ Shilling said. ‘Both parties are fully committed to the future joint parenting of their children.’ Winslet, 34, and Mendes, 44, have a 6-year-old son, and she has a 9-year-old daughter from her previous marriage,” CNN informs.
Speculation on what might have led to the decision to seek divorce seems to indicate a busy schedule and “boredom” as the main causes. Kate and Sam never fought and did have the enchanted life the actress would often speak about in media interviews, with the one completing the other. However, something changed after doing “Revolutionary Road” together and they just drifted apart, though none of the unnamed “sources” speaking to the British tabloids can quite say what happened that made them change.
Also as per British reports, Kate Winslet is worth an estimated £20 million, while Sam Mendes’ estate is believed to be half of his wife’s. Whether the two have a prenup signed is not known yet but, even if they don’t, the entire matter will probably be handled in the same discrete manner as the separation, it is being said.