Kate Winslet was reflecting on her role in “Heavenly Creatures” when she revealed on the Team Deakins podcast on December 24 that her first romantic experiences as a teenager were “with girls”.
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“I kissed a few girls and I kissed a few boys, but I wasn’t particularly developed in either direction,” she said, adding that she had never shared this information before.
The comment came after a reflection on her role in “Heavenly Creatures” from 1994. In the film, Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey play two teenage girls who share a deep friendship.
The 50-year-old actress said she drew inspiration from her relationships with women during her teenage years to bring the necessary emotion to her character.
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“At that stage of my life, I was certainly curious, and I think there was something in the really intense connection that those two women had that I deeply understood,” she added.
“I was immediately drawn into the vortex of their world, which obviously ended up becoming horrifically damaging for both of them, and they had enormous insecurities and vulnerabilities,” she commented.
Kate Winslet’s role in “Heavenly Creatures”, directed by Peter Jackson, introduced her to the world of cinema. She then went on to star in “Sense and Sensibility”, “Hamlet” and “Titanic”, the film that made her world-famous.
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