Kate Winslet is teasing us with her upcoming movie Ammonite in which she has a lesbian relationship with Irish actress Saoirse Ronan. It sounds like something that we imagined, but it's real and it's coming. I'll be coming, too, apparently because Kate Winslet has confirmed that there will be a love scene. Not only that, but she says this is the proudest she's ever been to go nude. Wow! That's saying something from an actress who has done iconic nudity in the past. She's prouder of this than of her Titanic nude scene? Now, I'm even more excited!
She described her nude scene with some detail, saying that the director Francis Lee was very respectful.“I just think Saoirse and I, we just felt really safe. Francis was naturally very nervous. And I just said to him, ‘Listen, let us work it out.’ And we did. ‘We’ll start here. We’ll do this with the kissing, boobs, you go down there, then you do this, then you climb up here.’ I mean, we marked out the beats of the scene so that we were anchored in something that just supported the narrative,” she explained. “I felt the proudest I’ve ever felt doing a love scene on ‘Ammonite.’ And I felt by far the least self-conscious.”
“I’m nearly 45, and Saoirse is almost half my age. And to have an opportunity to be my real 40-something self, post-children, you know? Women aren’t really having the courage to do that,” Winslet said of the nude scene she said that she felt empowered by. “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.” We can't wait to see that for ourselves!
In the meantime, check out one of her earliest nude scenes from the 1996 film Jude:
