{"id":374047,"date":"2025-12-28T23:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T23:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/374047\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T23:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T23:56:08","slug":"kate-winslet-says-her-first-intimate-experiences-were-with-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/374047\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Winslet Says Her ‘First Intimate Experiences’ Were With Women"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDuring a recent episode of the \u201cTeam Deakins<\/a>\u201d podcast, Kate Winslet<\/a> discussed her debut in Peter Jackson<\/a>\u2019s 1994 drama-thriller \u201cHeavenly Creatures,\u201d which follows the Oscar winner and Melanie Lynskey as two teens who share a dangerously obsessive friendship. When asked how much of herself she brought to the role of Juliet, Winslet shared that her \u201cfirst intimate experiences\u201d as a teenager were \u201cwith girls,\u201d which helped her understand the \u201creally intense connection\u201d at the heart of the film.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019ll share something I\u2019ve never shared before. Some of my first intimate experiences as a young teen were actually with girls,\u201d Winslet said. \u201cI\u2019d kissed a few girls, and I\u2019d kissed a few boys, but I wasn\u2019t particularly evolved in either direction.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe added, \u201cAt 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWinslet later explained that while she \u201ccouldn\u2019t truly understand\u201d the darker elements of the film, she connected with the deep personal connections someone can form when they are young and \u201cvulnerable.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHeavenly Creatures\u201d was Winslet\u2019s breakout role. She told \u201cTeam Deakins\u201d that she \u201cnever held a film script\u201d before auditioning for the film. It was also Jackson\u2019s first foray into drama. Before helming \u201cHeavenly Creatures,\u201d his directing credits included horror films like \u201cBad Taste\u201d and \u201cDead Alive,\u201d and the dark comedy \u201cMeet the Feebles.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the years after \u201cHeavenly Creatures,\u201d Winslet starred in \u201cSense and Sensibility,\u201d \u201cJude\u201d and \u201cHamlet\u201d before landing \u201cTitanic\u201d in 1997.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During a recent episode of the \u201cTeam Deakins\u201d podcast, Kate Winslet discussed her debut in Peter Jackson\u2019s 1994…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,58628,86190],"class_list":["post-374047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-kate-winslet","tag-peter-jackson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}