Kate Winslet Says Her ‘First Intimate Experiences’ Were With Women

During a latest episode of the “Team Deakins” podcast, Kate Winslet mentioned her debut in Peter Jackson’s 1994 drama-thriller “Heavenly Creatures,” which follows the Oscar winner and Melanie Lynskey as two teenagers who share a dangerously obsessive friendship. When requested how a lot of herself she dropped at the position of Juliet, Winslet shared that her “first intimate experiences” as a youngster have been “with girls,” which helped her perceive the “really intense connection” at the coronary heart of the movie.

“I’ll share something I’ve never shared before. Some of my first intimate experiences as a young teen were actually with girls,” Winslet said. “I’d kissed a few girls, and I’d kissed a few boys, but I wasn’t particularly evolved in either direction.”

She added, “At that stage in my life, I certainly was curious, and I think there was something about the really intense connection that those two women had that I profoundly understood. I was so immediately sucked into the vortex of that world they were in that obviously became horrendously damaging to both of them, and they had huge insecurities and vulnerabilities.”

Winslet later explained that while she “couldn’t truly understand” the darker parts of the movie, she linked with the deep private connections somebody can kind when they’re younger and “vulnerable.”

“Heavenly Creatures” was Winslet’s breakout position. She told “Team Deakins” that she “never held a film script” before auditioning for the movie. It was also Jackson’s first foray into drama. Before helming “Heavenly Creatures,” his directing credit included horror movies like “Bad Taste” and “Dead Alive,” and the darkish comedy “Meet the Feebles.”

In the years after “Heavenly Creatures,” Winslet starred in “Sense and Sensibility,” “Jude” and “Hamlet” before touchdown “Titanic” in 1997.