Kate Winslet hopped into a car boot to support an actress through a sex scene.
Kate Winslet
The 45-year-old actress has recalled how she was filming on HBO series 'Mare of Easttown', when she stepped in to support actress Angourie Rice - who plays her on-screen daughter - through an "intimate" car scene.
She shared: "Because there were no clothes that come off in the scene they didn’t consider bringing in an intimacy coordinator. And I just got the sense that she was nervous. So I said to her, I’m going to be around for this, I’m going to stay, I won’t leave the set. She said, 'Thank god Kate, thank you so much.' And I ended up being in the car. I ended up being in the boot of the car. I knew it would make them feel better to have that one person who would be able to put their hand up and say. 'Actually we need to cut now, is everyone feeling OK?'"
And whilst Kate didn't have an intimacy coordinator on set when she filmed 'Ammonite', she felt comfortable working alongside Saoirse Ronan.
She said: "Sometimes even directors don’t feel comfortable communicating with actors about intimate scenes, even if it’s just kissing ... It’s interesting we didn’t have [intimacy coordinators] on 'Ammonite' and I think it's partly because at the time we made the film, it was 2019. Intimacy coordinators were only just slightly becoming a thing, they weren’t a legal requirement on film sets.
"'Ammonite' was truly a very low budget film, we didn’t have stunt doubles, hand doubles we barely even had a packed lunch. It wasn’t something that was ever offered to us. But Saoirse and I, we felt quite confident in what we wanted to do with the characters in those intimate scenes. I think the two of us together sort of looking after each other made us feel a bit better."
And Kate wishes she had someone available to her on past shoots.
Speaking on the How I Found My Voice podcast, she added: "I definitely wish I had them in the past; I definitely do. I just could have done with that friend really. Just having a friend to say, 'Can you ask him just to not put his hands there?' So it’s not you having to say, which can be pretty awkward."
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