In preparation for her detective role in HBO’s “The Mare of Easttown,” set in suburban Philadelphia, Kate Winslet visited the city’s Kensington neighborhood to understand the opioid epidemic. As the Philadelphia Inquirer recently reported, a notorious heroin economy continues to thrive there. Some street corners gross more than $20 million annually.
In a New York Times interview, Winslet recounted heartbreaking scenes in Kensington, once described as the “Walmart of Heroin.” In one instance, she saw a man who “had been amputated from the knee down on his right leg, and he was injecting into the toes of the other foot.”