Kate Winslet recently revealed in a podcast appearance that her early experiences of intimacy were crucial for her role in Peter Jackson’s 1994 drama-thriller Heavenly Creatures. She starred alongside Melanie Lynskey in the film, which portrayed an obsessive friendship between two girls. Winselt broke out in this role and never looked back.
Kate Winslet’s ‘intimate experiences’ with girls helped her with Heavenly Creatures part
During her latest appearance on the Team Deakins podcast, Titanic star Kate Winslet spoke about her first major role. There, she shared how her first intimate experiences as a teenager helped her better understand this role. In Heavenly Creatures, Winslet shared an obsessive friendship with Melanie Lynskey.
In the podcast, Winslet revealed that her first intimate experiences” as a teenager were “with girls.”
“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 continued, “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 admitted that she could not fully understand the deeper elements of the film. However, she said that she connected to the story on a deeply personal level. Her earlier experiences enabled her to understand the profound connections young people can form when they are vulnerable.
This performance helped launch Kate Winslet’s career, who soon went on to star in films like Sense and Sensibility, Jude, and Hamlet. Following this, she landed the role of Rose in Titanic, which further changed her career forever.
Originally reported by Sourav Chakraborty on ComingSoon.
