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Published 16:13 27 Jul 2026 GMT
Kate Winslet once opened up about the intimate scenes she shared with Idris Elba in their 2017 survival drama, The Mountain Between Us.
The Brits starred in the Hany Abu-Assad-directed flick, alongside the likes of Dermot Mulroney and Beau Bridges.
But when the pair guest starred on the Graham Norton show to promote the film, Winslet let slip that Elba had one particular concern when they had to shoot their steamy scenes together.
Celebrities have become more open about their sex scenes in recent times, so while it's no surprise that the Titanic actress did the same, her revelation left many shocked.
She spoke about how she took charge of a sex scene with Elba due to her having more experience than both her co-star and their director.
But in being candid about the experience, the 50-year-old revealed that Elba feels strongly about a certain part of the body.
In a bizarre moment, the actress said that she was told something by her co-star while directing the scene.
She recalled Elba asking her to 'keep your socks on,' as she added: "I’m like, keep my socks on? Everything else is off. What’s with the socks?”
That's when Winslet then revealed: “He was like, ‘I got a foot thing.’”
Luckily, the actor was there to defend his name.
Except he didn't; he accepted that those were his words, telling Norton: “I got a thing, you know. Just a thing.”
Yet Winslet wasn't one to judge, instead joking that her feet weren't the most enticing, comparing them to Hobbit feet.
“I’ve got very, very big feet and they’re not particularly beautiful feet, either,” she admitted.
But Elba quickly hit back, saying: "They're all right, they're all right."
Many initially believed that Elba hated feet, but Winslet made sure all was clear, explaining that The Wire star doesn't hate feet, revealing: “It’s the opposite, ladies and gentlemen,” she said.
“Idris loves feet.”
Apparently, feet get him going, and the humorous Winslet didn't stop there, joking to the audience: “Everyone take your shoes off!”
Sadly for Elba, they didn't follow her commands.
One other notable A-Lister to open up about their intimate scenes is none other than Aubrey Plaza.
In The To-Do List, she plays Brandy, a recent high school graduate.
The scene in question involves her character enjoying a moment of self-pleasure, as she admitted to Conan O'Brien on his talk show that she was confused after seeing the direction in the script.
Apparently, the script said "Brandy masturbates," and Plaza recalled: "In my head I envisioned a nice scene where you just see my hand slowly go out of frame."
But she said this wasn't the case, explaining: "That's what I thought I was going into, but then when I showed up, the camera was mounted on the ceiling, I was in my underwear and a Clinton T-shirt, and there were a bunch of old men smoking, ya know, the crew guys.
"And then I went and touched myself. I thought I was doing one thing and when I showed up it was a whole different thing, it was a full body shot."
Plaza admitted: "I thought I was doing one thing and when I showed up it was a whole different thing, it was a full body shot and I asked the director 'what should I do' and she said 'masturbate like it says in the script'."
The Batman star Robert Pattinson also spoke about his NSFW moment on camera, which he performed in 2008 film Little Ashes.
While speaking to Germany's Interview Magazine, he revealed that he had to self-pleasure on camera, explaining: "I played Salvador Dali and had to do a lot of scenes where I was naked, and I also had to masturbate. I mean really.
“My orgasm face is recorded for eternity."
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Published 12:54 12 Sep 2023 GMT
Kate Winslet has opened up about the importance of being "f**king brave" while filming nude scenes.
The 47-year-old iconic Titanic actress leads in director Ellen Kuras's latest movie, Lee, which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The Academy-award winner produced the forthcoming film and stars as Elizabeth 'Lee' Miller - the fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II.
Before the film’s recent world premiere on Saturday (September 9), Winslet spoke to Vogue magazine about why baring it all for the camera is just another day at the office.
The upcoming movie includes scenes in which Winslet recreates a famous topless photo of Miller. Speaking about the intimate scene in the interview - which was conducted before the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike - the actress said: "I know better than to waste precious energy on criticizing my physical self.
"I think any woman is better off just saying: I believe in myself. It doesn’t matter what other people think; this is who I am - let’s get on with it," she continued.
Winslet shared more details about her experience filming, saying that she had to be "really f**king brave about letting my body be its softest version of itself and not hiding from that".
"And believe me, people amongst our own team would say, 'You might just want to sit up a bit,'" she added. "And I’d go, 'Why? [Because of] the bit of flesh you can see? No, that’s the way it’s going to be!'"
The Reader star said her own disinterest in sticking to beauty stereotypes is because of how she feels she was treated early in her career. When she was 21 years old, she stripped down to be painted by a young Leonardo DiCaprio in the 1997 blockbuster - famously instructing him to "draw me like one of your French girls".
In the Vogue interview, Winslet explained: "I think it probably stems from having been subjected to the most awful scrutiny and judgment, and, actually, I would go so far as to say bullying, from mainstream media when I was in my 20s."
Elsewhere in the interview, the Mare of Easttown actress spoke about being "patronized" by male executives when trying to raise money for her new war biopic.
"The men who think you want and need their help are unbelievably outraging," she said about the meetings she had with executives. "I’ve even had a director say to me: 'Listen, you do my film and I’ll get your little Lee funded…' Little! Or we’d have potential male investors saying things like: 'Tell me, why am I supposed to like this woman?'"
While Winslet recognized that attitudes towards women in Hollywood are changing, she also expressed that the progress that had been made was due to the #MeToo movement.
"Oh, my God! This is the best part. Young actresses now - f*** me - they are unafraid. It makes me so proud," she said. "And I think, Yes, all the s*** flinging, all the struggle, all the using my voice for years, often being finger-pointed at and laughed at - I don’t give a s***!
"It was all b***dy worth it. Because the culture is changing in the way that I couldn’t in my wildest dreams have imagined in my twenties," she concluded.
Lee also stars Alexander Skarsgård, Andrea Riseborough, Marion Cotillard, Josh O'Connor, and Andy Samberg.
The film does not have a scheduled release date within the US yet.
Published 14:06 17 Feb 2022 GMT
Kate Winslet has opened up about her struggles with body confidence.
The Oscar-winning actress revealed how a stray comment from her longtime friend Leonardo DiCaprio changed the way she thought about her body forever.
Winslet and DiCaprio have been friends ever since their days playing on-screen lovers Jack and Rose in Titanic. While the pair have never been romantically involved in real life, they've always looked out for each other.
When talking about her time filming Titanic with DiCaprio, Winslet revealed to Oprah Winfrey how a comment he made about her body stayed with her forever.
"I remember Leo when we were doing Titanic saying to me, 'it's really important that you are the shape that you are,'" the star recalled.
"I was like, 'what do you mean by that?' He said, 'because there are so many skinny girls out there who think that to be successful and to be beautiful and therefore to be loved and respected it means you have to be thin,'" she added.
The Mare of Eastown star went on to say how DiCaprio's words resonated with her, saying: "This really struck a chord with me and I thought, 'God, he's really right. In some way, this image is being translated to teenage girls.'"
When the Oscars rolled around and Winslet's performance generated considerable buzz, the actress remembered her friend's words and realized that she had every reason to be confident in her own body.
"I thought, 'I'm young, I'm 21-years-old and I'm in this movie and it's very successful and I've been nominated for an academy award for this and I haven't don any of this through being skinny or through starving myself'. So I thought, 'I'm just going to hold my head high and be the person that I am,'" the actress told Oprah proudly.
Winslet has spoken often about the body shaming and abuse she experienced throughout her youth.
In an interview with The Guardian, she recalled that "it was almost laughable how shocking, how critical, how straight-up cruel tabloid journalists were to me."
"They would comment on my size, they’d estimate what I weighed, they’d print the supposed diet I was on. It was critical and horrible and so upsetting to read," she added.
Published 16:01 11 Sep 2020 GMT
Kate Winslet has spoken out about her regret for working with directors Woody Allen and Roman Polankski in a new interview with Vanity Fair.
Winslet worked with Roman Polankski on the 2011 adaptation of Yasmina Reza’s play God of Carnage, titled Carnage in theaters, while she appeared in Woody Allen's Wonder Wheel back in 2017.
She told Vanity Fair of her decision to work with those directors:
"It’s like, what the f**k was I doing working with Woody Allen and Roman Polanski? It’s unbelievable to me now how those men were held in such high regard, so widely in the film industry and for as long as they were. It’s f**king disgraceful.
"And I have to take responsibility for the fact that I worked with them both. I can’t turn back the clock. I’m grappling with those regrets but what do we have if we aren’t able to just be f**king truthful about all of it?"
She prefaced her comments on the two men by saying:
"Life is f**king short and I’d like to do my best when it comes to setting a decent example to younger women. We’re handing them a pretty f**ked up world, so I’d like to do my bit in having some proper integrity."
Check out this resurfaced interview where Kate Winslet leaves Margot Robbie very unimpressed with her comments about Woody Allen:
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Later in the interview, Winslet revealed that during the filming of an intimate scene for the film Heavenly Creatures a member of the film crew said, "I guess it’s hard-d**ks day". The Titanic star said:
"This is a story I’ve never told, and I funnily enough remembered it when I was thinking about the things you might ask me in this interview. When I did an intimate scene on Heavenly Creatures, they were a lovely crew of people and they were so kind to myself and Melanie [Lynskey], and we never felt vulnerable, we never felt exposed.
"But one of the camera boys—as we’re lining up a shot, and we’re both in our little undies, naked from the waist up - I heard him as an aside say to someone else, 'Well, I guess it’s hard-d**ks day, boys.'"
The 44-year-old Academy Award winner continued:
"I was like, 'Uh', but I did this weird thing that you do when you’re younger of just going, 'Well, that wasn’t very nice, but we’d better not say anything.' And so I just carried on. I must have sort of buried it, because I had forgotten. But now it’s crystal clear.
"By the way, I really, genuinely could not fault for one second the experience I had on Heavenly Creatures overall, and I actually would almost hold it up as being my most treasured film experience, because it was just so lucky that I was given that part. But it’s just that one flicker of a moment."
You can read Kate Winslet's interview with Vanity Fair in full here.
Published 16:03 22 Oct 2020 GMT
Kate Winslet has revealed that she "gifted a sex scene" to her co-star Saoirse Ronan for her birthday.
In a candid interview with Entertainment Weekly, the 45-year-old Academy Award-winning actress spoke about her upcoming movie Ammonite.
In the flick, Winslett portrays the 19th-century British paleontologist Mary Anning, who enters into a relationship with geologist Charlotte Murchison, played by Ronan.
Take a look at the trailer for Ammonite in the video below:
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Winslet stated that there is a sex scene between the two actresses at one point in the period drama and that she purposefully arranged for the intimate sequence to be shot on Ronan's birthday, as a "gift" for her.
Winslet stated:
"I just wanted her to have, frankly, a great memory in her film life, regardless of how the scene played out or the movie turned out.
"I knew that it would be [great] just because of the experience that we would share together. I knew that it would be very equal."
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The Titanic star continued:
"I just could feel that Saoirse and I had the same ideas in terms of what we wanted to express in the scene, the emotional underpinning of the scene, the connection between these two women – which is, of course, more important than anything in any love scene.
"We were on the same page in terms of that."
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Winslet also stated that she and Ronan choreographed the scene themselves without prior rehearsal or blocking and that only a small number of female crew members were present in the room during the filming, one of whom was pregnant at the time.
In addition, Winslet also stated that she tried to subvert the male gaze during the love scene, claiming that she believes most cinematic sex scenes are narratively informed by the male characters and not the female ones.
The biopic was written and directed by Francis Lee, with the scenes shot in chronological order in Dorset, to better conserve the emotional arcs of the two lead characters.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly on the movie, Lee himself stated: "I was fascinated to set this film in a period that was totally patriarchal... where women were completely owned by their fathers or their husbands.
"At that time, the medical profession believed that women had no sexual-pleasure organs. So, the idea of two women actually in a relationship together was just not a thought anybody ever had within society."
The film's premiere was delayed multiples times as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic but is currently scheduled to be released theatrically in the United States on November 13.
