Kate Winslet reveals 'first intimate experiences' were with women in candid admission
Kate Winslet revealed that her first 'intimate experiences' as a teenager were with other women.
The Titanic star had been reflecting on her career during an episode of the Team Deakins podcast when she revealed how romantic encounters in her early years impacted her debut role in 1994 romantasy-crime film Heavenly Creatures.
Winslet starred opposite Melanie Lynskey in the Peter Jackson directed flick, which had been inspired by true crime case where two teenage girls committed murder after forming a romantic relationship.
When asked how she prepared for the role, the 50-year-old actor responded by disclosing a part of her past which she'd 'never shared before', revealing that she'd kissed 'a few girls' during her young teenage years.
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"Some of my first intimate experiences as a young teen were actually with girls," Winslet told hosts Roger and James Deakins. "I'd kissed a few girls, and I'd kissed a few boys, but I wasn't particularly evolved in either direction."
The Holiday star went on to say that she'd been 'curious' during that stage of her life, adding that it helped her understand the 'intense connection' depicted in Heavenly Creatures which she 'profoundly understood' at the time.
"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," she added.
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Winslet and Lynskey played troubled teenagers Juliet and Pauline in the film, which had been inspired by the real life case of Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker.
During the 1950s in New Zealand, Hulme and Parker murdered Parker's mother Honorah Parker as part of an elaborate plan which they believed would allow them to stay together after Hulme's parents had decided to move her to South Africa.
The two women, who'd formed an obsessive relationship over the years and developed fantasy worlds together, were later charged with murder after bludgeoning Honorah to death in a local woodland and spent five years behind bars in separate prisons.
They were later released and led separate lives under new identities, with Hulme later becoming known for her detective novels under the name Anne Perry.
Although she has never disclosed her sexuality publicly, all of Winslet's known relationships have been with men.
The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind actor is currently married to businessman Edward Abel Smith, whom she shares a 12-year-old son with.
She has previously been married to Skyfall director Sam Mendes and painter Jim Threapleton, whom she shares a son and daughter with respectively, as well as a brief relationship with The Holiday co-star Rufus Sewell.
In 2015, she told WSJ Magazine that 'no one really knows what has happened in my life', adding: "No one really knows why my first marriage didn't last; no one knows why my second didn't. And I'm proud of those silences."
Topics: Celebrity, Kate Winslet, Sex and Relationships
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