Kate Winslet’s Delco accent in “Mare of Easttown” got a mention in a 60 Minutes interview with Winslet Sunday night, Dec. 1, promoting her newest film “Lee” about American World War II woman photographer Lee Miller.

Winslet won an Emmy for “Mare of Easttown”… “playing a vaping, beer swigging detective – nailing the *specific* sound of Delaware County, a Philadelphia suburb…” noted 60 Minutes correspondent Cecilia Vega.

Winslet was asked why Philly is so hard.

“It’s actually the “I” sound in the Philadelphia, in the Delco dialect that is really difficult.,” Winslet said, as she put on her best Delco accent.

Winslet has previously described the Delco accent as one of the most challenging she’s ever done.

“It’s one of only two dialects in my life that made me throw things — that and the dialogue that they made me do in the movie about Steve Jobs,” she said during a 2021 panel discussion of “Mare of Easttown” reported in IndieWire.

In fact, Delaware County residents were recruited by “Mare of Easttown” dialogue coach Susanne Sulby to help Winslet and the cast learn “how to speak Delco,” recording their voices for Sulby to share with the cast, according to the Daily Times.

Kate Winslet’s acting career took off when she was just 20 after starring in “Titanic.”

She has since been compared by film critics to Katharine Hepburn and Meryl Streep.

Winslet leans toward tough, angst-ridden women characters and she continues along those lines in “Lee,” one of the few female journalists on the front lines of World War II.

Read the entire 60 Minutes interview with Kate Winslet at CBS News.

Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on DELCO Today in December 2024.