Kate Winslet Says Her First "Intimate Experiences" Were With Women

"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."

"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," she added, later stating that even though she had trouble fully understanding the darker aspects of Heavenly Creatures, she understood the "vulnerable" side of her character and the experiences she had in the film."

"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."

Kate's breakthrough role in Peter Jackson's 1994 film Heavenly Creatures portrayed an intense, obsessive friendship with fellow teenager Melanie Lynskey. Some of her first intimate experiences as a young teen were with girls; she also kissed boys and felt not particularly evolved in either direction. At that stage she was curious and recognized the intense connection between the two women characters. She understood the vulnerable side of her character and the experiences shown, even while the darker aspects remained difficult to fully grasp. The world depicted pulled the characters into a damaging vortex marked by huge insecurities and vulnerabilities.

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