At 48, Kate Winslet delivered a pretty heartbreaking confession. Since her very beginnings in cinema, the actress would have liked to be accompanied by an intimacy coordinator during nude or sex scenes. Instead, she always had to assert her demands alone, despite the fear of “annoying people, appearing rude or pathetic.” »
We sometimes hear that the demand for intimacy coordinators on film sets is a contemporary fad. Just as the fight against gender-based and sexual violence is not new, the interest of these guarantors of the safety of workers on set is far from new.
At a time when tongues are wagging even in the highest echelons of Hollywood, icon Kate Winslet has confided that she has many times felt the need to work alongside an intimacy coordinator, but was unable to comply with this request.
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“When you’re young, you’re so afraid of pissing people off.”
In an interview published in the columns of New York Timesthe Oscar-winning actress starring in the series The Regime thus confided that she would have liked to have an intimacy coordinator pour ” each ” nude scene or sex scene throughout his career. She explained:
“I would have liked to have had an intimacy coordinator every time I had to film a love scene, being partially naked or even a kissing scene. It would have been nice to have someone by my side in those moments, because I always had to defend myself alone. »
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Kate Winslet explained that an intimacy coordinator would have been a huge help in ” little things “ who play an essential role in making an actress feel comfortable and ensuring her consent is always respected. Kate Winslet cited several examples of claims she had to defend alone:
“I don’t like this camera angle. I don’t want to appear naked from the front. I don’t want there to be that many people on set. I want my dressing gown to cover me more. »
Kate Winslet dans The Regime // Source : youtube screenshot
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Kate Winslet explained that the fear of asking for professional support was a consequence of the silence that reigned in Hollywood around the needs of actresses and the pressure that weighed on them:
“When you’re young, you’re so afraid of annoying people, of seeming rude or pathetic because you have certain needs. It was very, very difficult to learn to express yourself in these environments. »
Titanic
This rather moving position gives us access, years after having seen and rewatched his films, to the other side of an extremely violent setting suffered by the leading actress of the most famous film in the world. This is not the first time that Kate Winslet has taken a firm stand for the dignity and safety of women. At the end of 2022, she had revealed that he had been the victim of grossophobia so fierce for her role as Rose in Titanic that she had developed eating disorders and deep trauma, resolved after years of therapy.