The storm had already claimed the lives of at least two people in China's Hainan and 16 people in the Philippines
Winslet, who plays key roles in two of the festival's most talked-about movies, described balancing motherhood and work as her biggest achievement of the year.
"It is a lot to pull off, keep everybody settled and do my job as well as I can, but most importantly being the best parent that I can," Winslet, who has a 2-year old son and a 6-year old daughter, told Reuters in an interview.
"We go everywhere together with the kids and I am very rarely away from them. Even to be here for three nights, it's weird because I just don't do that."
Winslet plays a southern belle who has an affair with the Louisiana governor in Steven Zaillian's new movie, 'All the King's Men'.
In 'Little Children', directed by Todd Field, she plays a suburban mom, Sarah, who also has an affair as she tries desperately to find happiness and herself.
"It was very, very challenging and hard for me to separate myself from my own life and my own feelings as a mother and my own instincts as a parent and to be this character here, who isn't a good mother at all, and quite selfish in a way," she said of the 'Little Children' role.
"On the surface she is quite weak-willed too, which I am not, I am quite strong."
Her pointy black boots were cast aside and the drapes in the hotel room closed as she took on countless interviews.
The two movies are a departure from Winslet's previous roles as a 'period babe' in movies like 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Hamlet' as well as her role as Rose in 'Titanic'.
She said she considers herself very lucky not to have to work 48 weeks a year.
"I am taking a year off now, just to see the children and I am going to do that more and more now, so I do have very big gaps in my working schedule, where I switch off and I am just a parent," she said.
"My husband and I, we take it in turns to work, we're not in a situation where he is on one part of the world and I am on the other with the kids."
Winslet is married to director Sam Mendes.
Field said editing scenes from the film where Winslet gives her movie daughter the brush-off had made him think about his own three children.
"I thought, I have been sitting here working on this movie for almost two years, I have been doing the same thing to my children at home," he said.
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