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Over the weekend,
Mare of Easttown the instant cult classic HBO crime drama where Kate Winslet vapes with a Delco accent in a flannel shirt ended with a devastating twist. The show captured national attention for the seven weeks that it was on, and while to some the finale was unsatisfying, this collective cultural moment finished with at least one conclusive takeaway: Kate Winslet was the show’s star but Wawa was its backbone.
During the press cycle for
Mare, there was hardly an interview in which the show’s
actors didn’t redirect the conversation to Wawa, the East Coast’s most cherished convenience store. “Wawa is like … It’s incredible,” Evan Peters, who plays the earnest too-soon-deceased detective Colin Zabel on the show, told the
Kate Winslet enchanted by ‘mythical’ Wawa during ‘Mare of Easttown’
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Kate Winslet, star of HBO s Mare of Easttown, considered Wawa to be a mythical place when she first stepped foot in one.C. Flanigan | Getty Images ; Jeff Greenberg | Getty Images
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Even Kate Winslet was not immune to the charms of Wawa.
The Oscar-winning British actor had heard much about the “mythical” convenience store in the course of working on the HBO series “Mare of Easttown,” which is set in Delaware County, Pennsylvania (despite the real Easttown being in Chester County) and filmed in several local towns.
The Oscar-winning actress appears the new HBO series
Mare of Easttown as a detective based in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
In a new interview, she revealed that there’s one part of her research for the role that left a very lasting impression.
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“So I subscribed to the
Delco Times, so I would read this newspaper every day, and there would regularly be some article about Wawa,”
Kate explained on an episode of
The Los Angeles Times’ “Envelope” podcast. “It almost felt like a mythical place, Wawa.”
“And so by the time I got there, I was like, ‘Oh, it’s real!’ It was like Lapland,” she said, laughing.
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While filming her TV series, Mare of Easttown, Kate Winslet became obsessed with Wawa, a chain of American convenience stores.
The British actress, 45, plays Delaware County, Pennsylvania, detective Mare Sheehan and to prep for the role, she would read local papers. So, I subscribed to the Delco Times, so I would read this newspaper every day, and there would regularly be some article about Wawa, Winslet told the Los Angeles Times’ Envelope podcast. It almost felt like a mythical place, Wawa, she joked. And so by the time I got there, I was like, ‘Oh, it’s real!’ It was like Lapland [Santa s Village in Finland].