The romantic scene Kate Winslet was most proud of was with Saoirse Ronan, not DiCaprio
Not Leonardo DiCaprio, Idris Elba or Christopher Eccleston. The romantic scene that Kate Winslet is most proud of in her entire career is that she shot it alongside Saoirse Ronan in the Victorian drama Ammonite.
That's right, her love sequences with the young actress have filled the Titanic star with pride.
While it's early days to talk about the upcoming awards season when we haven't had theatrical releases for almost five months, Ammonite is one of the titles that sounds among the first forecasts. A drama written and directed by Francis Lee about the relationship between a paleontologist and a depressed young woman in 1840s England. Kate Winslet plays the renowned but little-known fossil hunter Mary Anning, while Saoirse Ronan is a wife suffering from melancholy, according to her husband, sent to spend time by the sea with the paleontologist.
But the friendship they forge in silence, between the search for bones and the seashore will awaken emotions and sensations that could change their lives forever.
Throughout the story, acclaimed actresses share romantic scenes that have become Kate's favorites. Or, at least, the ones she's most proud of. This is how she revealed it in an interview with THR, assuring that her pride is due to having placed all her trust in the director and her partner when it comes to freely choreographing the intimate moments between them.
"Saoirse and I choreographed the scenes ourselves," says the 44-year-old actress, referring to one of the most explicit scenes that we will see in the film. “It's definitely not like eating a sandwich. I think Saoirse and I feel very safe. Francis was naturally nervous and I said, 'Listen, let us do it. And we did it."
“We started here. We did this with the kisses, the breasts, we go down here, you do that, you go up here… I mean, we set our rhythms of the scene to feel anchored to something that supported the narrative, “adds Kate. “With Ammonite I feel the proudest I have ever felt doing a love scene. And by far it's the time I felt less self-conscious.
Certainly very different from his romantic scene with Leonardo DiCaprio in the Titanic car which, not only was it not in the script and created quickly on the same day, but had people from the crew spraying them with Evian water to illustrate. the sweat of consummated passion.
It should be noted that, according to the same publication, Ammonite is a film with a more intimate lesbian plot than the acclaimed Carol in which Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara shared romantic scenes. Although that 2015 film also recounted a forbidden love in the eyes of 1950s society, in Ammonite it is even more so as we go back in time to an era of corsets and women without rights.
Kate and Saoirse, who are among the most prolific actresses of the moment, had met casually before shooting the film and the tandem seems perfect for awards season. Kate won the Oscar for The Reader (2008) and adds six other nominations throughout her career. Saoirse, for her part, has not won it yet but at 26 years old she has been the favorite on all four occasions that she was nominated.
Ammonite will premiere first at the Toronto Film Festival and then in US theaters in November under the distribution of the same company that dominated the Oscars with Parasites this year and, as confirmed by THR, it is your bet for the next ceremony. In Spain it still does not have a release date.
