Overview
- Winslet shared the personal detail on the Team Deakins podcast, with The Telegraph first reporting it and other outlets following.
- She said she kissed girls and boys as a teen, describing herself as curious rather than fixed in any direction at the time.
- The actress said the intense connection depicted in Heavenly Creatures resonated with her own feelings as a young person.
- She recalled returning from the 1994 film a different person after the experience of working on it at age 17.
- Winslet also said she is uneasy with fame and prefers a quieter creative life away from publicity.