Kate Winslet, 44, is set to strip off for steamy same-sex scenes with Little Women actress Saoirse Ronan, 26, in Ammonite later this year.
The film revolves around reclusive fossil hunter Mary Anning, played by Kate, who falls in love with Charlotte Murchison, played by Saoirse, on the Dorset coast.
Kate, who is no stranger to an on-screen romp, has shared her pride at the artistic sex scenes, and revealed she choreographed them with her co-star.
She told The Sun: “Saoirse and I choreographed it. Francis [Lee, the director] was nervous and I just said, ‘Let us work it out’.
Kate is proud of the sex scenes that she helped choreograph with Saoirse (Image: Steven McAuley <steven.mcauley@reachplc.com>)
“We did, ‘We’ll start here. We’ll do this with the kissing, boobs. You go down there, do this, then climb up here’.
“I felt the proudest I’ve ever felt doing a love scene — and by far the least self-conscious.”
Kate also revealed that she spent months researching her character Mary about how she became famous for her discoveries in Lyme Regis.
Kate previously revealed how excited she was for people to see the sex scenes (Image: Getty Images Europe)
She also studied the local dialect, learned to draw and worked with a palaeontologist to ensure her character was authentic.
During her time researching on the coast, her husband Ned Smith visited from their home in West Sussex with their son Bear, 6.
Kate’s daughter Mia, 19, from her first husband Jim Threapleton, and her son Joe, 16, from her second marriage to Sam Mendes, also visited her.
The actress spent months preparing for the role of the fossil hunter
The actress previously spoke about sex scenes she’d filmed in the Hollywood film, saying: “I’m nearly 45 and Saoirse is almost half my age. To have an opportunity to be my real, fortysomething self, post-children, you know . . . women aren’t really having the courage to do that.
“I was just excited to say, ‘This is what it is, peeps. This is how I am now and it’s very much not the body I had 20 years ago’.”
She added: “The thing I feel most when I watch the film, and I feel proudest of, is that this is a same-sex, intimate relationship in a period setting, yet they are not hiding, not having to run around and avoid society.
“They are simply in love and discover who they truly are through this connection that they form.”
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
