The “Titanic” sketch scene could have played out differently. Or perhaps Kate Winslet would have just felt more comfortable filming it.
The “Regime” actress told The New York Times that she ideally would have had an intimacy coordinator for “every single” nude scene and/or sex scene in her career.
“I would have benefited from an intimacy coordinator every single time I had to do a love scene or be partially naked or even a kissing scene,” the Oscar winner said. “It would have been nice to have had someone in my corner, because I always had to stand up for myself.”
She could have better voiced — or had someone voice on her behalf — concerns with camera angles, like: “I don’t like that camera angle. I don’t want to stand here full-frontal nude. I don’t want this many people in the room. I want my dressing gown to be closer.”
It’s often the “little things,” she said.
“When you’re young, you’re so afraid of pissing people off or coming across as rude or pathetic because you might need those things,” Winslet said. “So learning to have a voice for oneself in those environments was very, very hard.”
Winslet said she endured “bullying” over her appearance in films like “Heavenly Creatures” and “Titanic.” She said she struggled with an eating disorder at one point.
“I was already experiencing huge amounts of judgment, persecution, all this bullying,” Winslet said. “People can call me fat. They can call me what they want. But they certainly cannot say that I complained and I behaved badly, over my dead body. I would not have known how to do that without people in power turning around and saying, ‘Oh, Jesus Christ, you know, her again, that complainer.’ I would rather suffer in silence than ever let that happen to me, even still today.”
Winslet can currently be seen on dark-comedy “The Regime” on Max in a role unlike any she says she’s ever played.
“I did actually work with a neuroscientist and a psychotherapist to try and understand trauma a bit better and how that can manifest itself in people’s bodies and lives and how they move and how they speak,” Winslet told IndieWire. “Because I wanted to make sure that I was rooting her in some kind of reality. It’s really looking at her childhood, where her trauma began, and how that has stayed with her and how it absolutely impacts every single one of her close personal relationships.”
