![]() "He was brilliant at allowing us create our own narrative and actually change a lot of what he had described on the page – not because we didn't like it, but because we discovered different things on the day. And also, women know what women want," Winslet says. ![]() "Francis knew that as a man, he had to allow us as two women to use our power and our knowledge. Winslet, who has done same-sex love scenes before in films such as 1994's "Heavenly Creatures," says it was "very important" to get them right in "Ammonite." It was my first time having an experience like that in a sex scene, where you really do have complete control over where the scene goes." Step 2: I'll nuzzle your neck or whatever.' It was great. "We got our little notebooks out, like, 'OK, Step 1: You're gonna put your hand on my shoulder. "In terms of the actual movements, Kate and I planned all that out," Ronan says. Lee outlined the scenes in detail in the script, before stepping back and letting the actors choreograph them in rehearsals. Mary's emotional wall eventually crumbles in the film's second half, as she and Charlotte give in to their desires in a pair of fiercely intimate and explicit sex scenes. Just go and get a cappuccino!' But I tried to live this quite separate life and that was bloody hard when I've got a family at home. "Sometimes I'd think, 'Oh, my God, I'm being way too method. I'd write in the pens that Mary would have used and I would draw because she had to draw all her historical finds in order for them to be documented," Winslet says. She lived alone on weekdays and saw her husband, businessman Edward Abel Smith, and three kids on weekends. The "Titanic" star also isolated herself during filming, staying in a seaside cottage that rattled in the wind and rain, and frequently lost power. "She chiseled away at it, polished it and everything – she really got into it." "She gave me a beautiful little ammonite that she found," Ronan recalls. She studied with a paleontologist for months before filming and excavated fossils on the actual English coast where Anning worked. And I felt by far the least self-conscious.Winslet, 45, threw herself into the role. I felt the proudest I’ve ever felt doing a love scene on Ammonite. I mean, we marked out the beats of the scene so that we were anchored in something that just supported the narrative. We’ll do this with the kissing, boobs, you go down there, then you do this, then you climb up here”. And I just said to him, “Listen, let us work it out”. She told The Hollywood Reporter: ‘I just think Saoirse and I, we just felt really safe. In August 2020, Kate also admitted that filming sex scenes are ‘definitely not like eating a sandwich’. And so that to me, that to me, that’s a conversation.’ ‘And I’m telling you, with my hand on my heart, I have never been asked the same volume of questions about love scenes of a heterosexual nature – of which I have shot many in my life. Speaking to Digital Spy in March 2021, the actress said: ‘What I definitely found really striking is that people seem to talk about the love scenes in the film in ways that are much more focused, because it’s two women. ![]() ![]() Kate said filming her love scene with Saoirse Ronan in Ammonite wasn’t like ‘eating a sandwich’ (Picture: Neon /See Saw) ![]()
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