Kate Winslet Opens Up About Her First Intimate Experiences, Shocking Fans: ‘I’d Kissed a Few Girls and a Few Boys’

During a recent episode of the “Team Deakins” podcast, Kate Winslet spoke about her first film role in Peter Jackson’s 1994 drama-thriller Heavenly Creatures. The movie follows two teenage girls, played by Winslet and Melanie Lynskey, who form a dangerously obsessive friendship.

When asked how much of herself she brought to the role of Juliet, Winslet revealed that some of her “first intimate experiences” as a teenager were with girls.

“I’ll share something I’ve never shared before. Some of my first intimate experiences as a young teen were actually with girls,” she said. “I’d kissed a few girls, and I’d kissed a few boys, but I wasn’t particularly evolved in either direction.”

She explained that her own experiences helped her understand the intense connection at the center of the film. “At 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,” Winslet said.

“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.”

Winslet also talked about connecting with the deeper emotional elements of the story. “I couldn’t truly understand the darker elements of the film, but I connected with the deep personal connections someone can form when they are young and vulnerable,” she said.

Heavenly Creatures marked Winslet’s first major role. She told “Team Deakins” that she had never even held a film script before auditioning for it. The movie was also a new kind of project for director Peter Jackson, who had previously worked on horror films like Bad Taste and Dead Alive, as well as the dark comedy Meet the Feebles.

After Heavenly Creatures, Winslet continued to build her career with roles in films like Sense and Sensibility, Jude, and Hamlet, before achieving worldwide fame with Titanic in 1997.

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