Kate Winslet Opens Up About Early Intimacy and the Impact of “Heavenly Creatures”
Los Angeles, Dec 27 – Hollywood star Kate Winslet shared, for the first time, details of some of her “first intimate experiences,” saying that a number of those moments involved girls.
Speaking to the Team Deakins podcast (as reported by The Telegraph), Winslet revealed that in her late teens she was “curious” and could see a reflection of herself in the 1994 film Heavenly Creatures, a story about a powerful, obsessive relationship between two teenage girls.
“I’ll share something I’ve never shared before,” Winslet told the podcast. “Some of my first intimate experiences as a young teen were actually with girls. I’d kissed a few girls, I’d kissed a few boys but I wasn’t particularly evolved in either direction. But at that stage in my life I certainly was curious, and I think there was something about the really intense connection that those two women have 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.”
She went on to comment on the film’s darker elements: “I mean, they murdered someone because they truly believed that that person was preventing them from being together. And while of course I couldn’t truly understand that part of it, I could certainly understand how influenced a young person’s mind can become by just one other person when you’re so vulnerable.”
The Movie’s Effect
According to Female First UK, the 17‑year‑old Winslet said the experience of filming Heavenly Creatures changed her. "I know I came back a different person, because I’d evolved so much in my learning and life experience and being in that wonderful country," she explained.
Personal Life and Views on Fame
Winslet, who has three children—daughter Mia Honey Threapleton with former husband Jim Threapleton, son Joe Alfie Mendes with husband Sam Mendes, and son Bear Blaze Winslet with Edward Abel Smith—added that she’s not comfortable with fame. “I’d much rather be in the shadows of the trees just making art with friends and having a great time that way,” she said. “And the other side of the job, which is the exposure that has come hand in hand with the career that I have had, I’ve always been slightly at odds with that. I always feel as though fame kind of came and found me, I actually didn’t go searching for it, not in an ambitious way.”
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