Why Winslet and Mendes Split

Being directed by your husband in love scenes with Leonardo DiCaprio would put an awkward crimp in any marriage. And in the wake of Kate Winslet’s breakup with Sam Mendes, her husband of nearly seven years, it seems that tension during Revolutionary Road was certainly a factor. Winslet starred alongside DiCaprio in the Mendes film about a loveless marriage, and months of arguments followed. “I just kept saying, ‘This is too weird,’” Winslet said of the love scenes in an interview last year. But in addition to work coming between them, Alison Boshoff of London’s Daily Mail suggests Winslet’s temperament might have played a part and that the breakup was not as amicable as the couple claimed. “She is 'fierce' in an argument and is a woman of stubborn loyalties and intense passions,” Boshoff writes, “you are either within her inner circle or she never wishes to speak to you again.”