Kate Winslet has revealed she felt “good” filming same-sex scenes in her new movie Ammonite.
The Hollywood actress portrays the real-life English pioneering palaeontologist Mary Anning in the critically-acclaimed film.
But it is her saucy on-screen relationship with co-star Saoirse Ronan, who plays the married Charlotte Murchison in the movie, which has really got tongues wagging.
The pair embark on a scorcher of a romance – and it’s the passionate same-sex scenes which have unsurprisingly attracted so much attention.
“It was very clear to me that they were quite capable of passionate moments, and Saoirse and I both wanted to embody that,” revealed Kate, one of the few actresses to be an Academy, Emmy, Grammy and Golden Globes award-winner.
The 45-year-old A-list star added: “And for me, at the age I am now, that felt quite good, actually.”
Irish-American co-star Saoirse, 26, admitted she had a “wonderful” time filming the scenes with Kate.
The Golden Globe winning actress said: “I had a wonderful time. I’ve never done a sex scene so intense and full-on before.”
And in a recent interview with Digital Spy, Titanic star Kate revealed that her lesbian love scenes had attracted more attention than any heterosexual roles she had ever taken on.
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“I definitely feel a sort of a duty to serve Mary Anning, still, and of course, the story,” she told the publication. “The story is so much about her, and her remarkable achievements that were unsung, unknown, re-appropriated by men, taken from her wrongfully.
“And so, I didn’t feel ‘Oh, God, let me, you know, get away from the talking about the sex scenes and come back to that!’ But what I definitely found really striking is that people seem to talk about the love scenes in the film in ways that are much more focused, because it’s two women.
“And I’m telling you, with my hand on my heart, I have never been asked the same volume of questions about love scenes of a heterosexual nature – of which I have shot many in my life. And so that to me, that to me, that’s a conversation.”
However, Mary’s descendant Barbara Anning has criticised the film, questioning whether there was any suggestion her relative was gay.
In an online discussion she slammed: “I do not believe there is any evidence to back up portraying her as a gay woman.
“I believe Mary Anning was abused because she was poor, uneducated and a woman. Is that not enough?”
The film’s director, Francis Lee, has ferociously defended the lesbian storyline.
“What I tried to do was to take this working-class woman, who hadn’t been recognised in her lifetime, and elevate her,” he offered.
“And because men had blocked and overlooked her, and appropriated her work for themselves, I felt that this relationship couldn’t be with a man.”
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
