Kate Winslet role in Contagion prepared her for coronavirus pandemic

Kate Aurthur editorDuring an interview at Variety’s virtual studio at the Toronto International Film Festival, Kate Winslet — who stars in the festival’s lesbian romance “Ammonite” — elaborated on the regrets she recently expressed about working with directors Woody Allen and Roman Polanski.

It’s pretty crazy to think that it’s been more than 25 years since Kate Winslet had her breakout role in the film, “Heavenly Creatures.” Over that time span, she’s won an Oscar (along with various other prestigious awards), she’s starred in one of the biggest films of all time (“Titanic”), and a number of other acclaimed features that have gained her the status of being one of the very best performers in the industry.

Titanic actress Kate Winslet has been taking the coronavirus pandemic very seriously from the beginning and recently she revealed the reason why. The 44-year-old actress, who played an epidemiologist in 2011’s Contagion, said the movie made her hyper-aware of the current pandemic when the virus started spreading in China and Europe.

Kate Winslet revealed she and "Ammonite" co-star Saoirse Ronan took their sex scene very seriously. So much so, the two actresses "choreographed" it themselves. Winslet explained to The Hollywood Reporter that the film's director, Francis Lee, was "nervous" about how the scene would look.

Ammonite.The pair play starcrossed lovers Mary Anning, a real-life fossil hunter, and the married woman, Charlotte Murchison, she has a relationship with.Kate admitted that she was ‘nervous’ to shoot the love scenes with Saoirse, but went on to say that they are the scenes she is ‘proudest’ of now.Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, she explained that she and Saoirse went away to ‘choreograph’ the racy scenes which feature in the movie.She admitted that the director Francis Lee had been

While many people around the world were not prepared for the coronavirus pandemic, actress Kate Winslet was. The Oscar winner, 44, recently spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about the pandemic, revealing that after starring in 2011's "Contagion," she was ready for the outbreak long before everyone else.

Kate Winslet has been taking the coronavirus pandemic very seriously from the beginning.

Kate Winslet is not afraid to acknowledge that her sex scene with her co-star, Saoirse Ronan, took serious work. In a new interview with, the 44-year-old actress candidly discusses what went into filming the scene and how proud of it she is.

One of the by-products of the #MeToo movement is the spotlight that has been put on the working conditions that actresses face on film sets, especially when they’re asked to be nude or do love scenes.

Kate Winslet discusses her new lesbian drama “Ammonite” and what it was like filming the very imtimate sex scenes with Saoirse Ronan in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter.

Ammonite, the buzzy LGBT period romance starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan, is set to close the 2020 BFI London Film Festival. The film — from Brit director Francis Lee (God's Own Country) which will have its world premiere in Toronto in September — will bow in the U.K.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterThe BFI London Film Festival has set Francis Lee’s Ammonite as its closing film.Starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan, the film is set in the 1840s, following palaeontologist Mary Anning when she encounters a young woman recuperating from a personal tragedy,It is world premiering at Toronto and also took part in the 2020 Cannes Label selection at the cancelled French festival.The London screening will take place on October 17 at cinemas across the UK,

Oscar winners Kate Winselt, Jennifer Hudson and Glenn Close have joined Daisy Ridley in the all-female voice cast of Baba Yaga, an immersive VR animated film that will premiere at the Venice Film Festival next month. In the VR experience, viewers enter a haunting fairytale world, joining their sister Magda (Ridley) on a quest to heal their mother (Close) by entering an enchanted forest (Hudson) to obtain the cure from the enigmatic witch, Baba Yaga (Winslet).

Naman Ramachandran The U.K. premiere of “Ammonite,” starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan, and directed by Francis Lee (“God’s Own Country”), will close the British Film Institute London Film Festival on Oct.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorKate Winslet, Jennifer Hudson and Glenn Close have joined previously announced lead Daisy Ridley in the voice cast of Venice Film Festival-bound VR project Baba Yaga.Hudson is an executive-producer on the immersive short film set in a haunting fairytale world where viewers can decide the direction of the story.