Kate Winslet has recently broken her silence on lack of intimacy coordinators earlier in her career.
In a new interview with The New York Times Magazine, the Titanic star said, “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.”
Winslet remarked, “It would have been nice to have had someone in my corner, because I always had to stand up for myself.”
She added that there were several times in her career when she’d wanted to take a stand but felt like she was unable to, giving examples such as: “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.”
The actress also told the Times. “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. Just little things like that,” continued the 48-year-old.
Reflecting on her early days of acting, Winslet explained, “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.”
“So, learning to have a voice for oneself in those environments was very, very hard,” she added.
Winslet disclosed she was not outspoken because that would harm her reputation in the industry.
“I would not have known how to do that without people in power turning around and saying, ‘Oh, you know, her again, that complainer.’”
“I would rather suffer in silence than ever let that happen to me, even still today,” she concluded.
Meanwhile, Winslet can next be seen in HBO’s The Regime.