Kate Winslet on 'Ammonite' being one of the best roles of her career

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Kate Winslet hopes her latest film Ammonite will help normalize LGBTQ+ love stories on film. More from the Awardist:

"When I first read the script, I had this overwhelming feeling of this surging excitement of, 'Yes, I very much want to be a part of this,' but at the same time, I also felt extremely nervous because I just didn't know where to begin," Winslet admits.

This meant Winslet had to disappear into the character — go a little method, you could say — as she had never done before. She created a "bunker" for her. She separated from her family during filming, a first. "I just knew that I wasn't going to be able to come home and cook a meal for everybody at night or think about what groceries we'd run out of in the cupboard or do the laundry," she says. "It was quite intense in that regard.

Winslet studied photos of mid-19th-century working-class women who worked by the sea. Beyond the physical toll, Winslet took inspiration from their gritty countenance. "Everything about Mary's demeanor is bound up in the small world in which she lives," she says. Plus, corsets were a big no, despite the era.

It's a transformation that pays off into brilliantly understated work; Winslet has been longlisted for the BAFTA for Best Actress, and in

 

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Those sex scenes were great.

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