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Kate Winslet<\/a> has revealed that she\u2019d had \u201cintimate encounters\u201d with the same sex when she was younger.<\/p>\n Winslet made the admission for the first time on a recent episode of the Team Deakins<\/em> podcast, while discussing her debut role in the 1994 Peter Jackson-directed drama-thriller\u00a0Heavenly Creatures.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Winslet appeared opposite Melanie Lynskey as two teenagers with a dangerously obsessive friendship. During her podcast appearance, she admitted that her \u201cfirst intimate experiences\u201d as a teenager were \u201cwith girls,\u201d which helped her understand the \u201creally intense connection\u201d the film revolves around.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ll share something I\u2019ve never shared before. Some of my first intimate experiences as a young teen were actually with girls,\u201d Winslet said. \u201cI\u2019d kissed a few girls, and I\u2019d kissed a few boys, but I wasn\u2019t particularly evolved in either direction.<\/p>\n \u201cAt that stage in my life, I certainly was curious, and I think there was something about the really intense connection that those two women had 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, and they had huge insecurities and vulnerabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n Heavenly Creatures\u00a0<\/em>was Winslet\u2019s breakout role and she also revealed she had never held a script before she auditioned for the film. Following the film, she landed roles in Sense and Sensibility<\/em>, Jude<\/em> and Hamlet<\/em> before landing her star-making role in Titanic<\/em> in 1997.<\/p>\n In other news, Winslet also recently revealed that she was told to \u201csettle for the fat girl parts\u201d when she was a child actor.<\/p>\n In it, she told host\u00a0Lauren Laverne<\/a>\u00a0a story about an encounter with a drama teacher in the earliest stages of her career.<\/p>\n \u201cI was a little bit stocky, when I did start taking it much more seriously and got a child agent, I remember vividly a drama teacher\u2026and she said to me, \u2018Well, darling, you\u2019ll have a career if you\u2019re ready to settle for the fat girl parts\u2019,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \u201cLook at me now. It\u2019s appalling the things people say to children,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n Winslet is currently promoting her directorial debut Goodbye June <\/i>in which she also stars alongside\u00a0Toni Collette<\/a>,\u00a0Johnny\u00a0Flynn<\/a>\u00a0and Andrea Riseborough as the children of\u00a0Helen Mirren<\/a>\u00a0and Timothy Spall, as they all gather around their dying mother during the Christmas period.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The post Kate Winslet reveals her first \u201cintimate encounters\u201d were \u201cwith girls\u201d<\/a> appeared first on NME<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kate Winslet has revealed that she\u2019d had \u201cintimate encounters\u201d with the same sex when she was younger. Winslet made the admission for the first time on a recent episode of the Team Deakins podcast, while discussing her debut role in the 1994 Peter Jackson-directed drama-thriller\u00a0Heavenly Creatures.\u00a0 Winslet appeared opposite Melanie Lynskey as two teenagers with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-art"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 12:55:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}