Kate Winslet’s co-star left her with ‘lots of bruises’ after wild sex scene
Speaking on The Hollywood Reporter’s It Happened in Hollywood podcast, Wilson recalled setting up a dinner with his new co-star and her then-husband, director Sam Mendes, ahead of filming.
‘Just to be like, alright, were about to start this movie together. We’re going to be very into it. So it kind of levelled the playing field. You could make tons of jokes, but I think we knew the drill, he explained.
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They played lovers Brad and Sarah in the satirical melodrama Little Children (Picture: Moviestore/Rex/Shutterstock)
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‘[Kate] was so cool and gracious and just a gamer – like, “Let’s go for it.”
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There was never one awkward or weird moment. Ne one. I loved it, he added of his experience working w the Oscar-winner in such close quarters.
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No body doubles were used in the scene (That was pre-crossfit. I was a big runner then, I guess, Wilson said, which also led him to address the rumours that Winslet bruised her bum while filming their intimate scene.
In 2006, Kate Winslet and Patrick Wilson starred together in a film with a famously steamy sex scene (Picture:
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Patrick Wilson is ‘sure’ that Kate Winslet ended up with bruises on her backside after they filmed a famous sex scene together – before the days of intimacy coordinators.
The 51-year-old actor starred opposite Titanic actress Winslet, 49, in the 2006 film Little Children, where they play bored suburbanites, Brad and Sarah, whose friendship gradually grows into a mutual attraction after they bring their kids on a string of play dates.
But he’s noted that shooting the steamy scene where their characters consummate their affair in a laundry room – something people still get flustered over with him in real life – was different to how it would be today.
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The lengthy scene includes vigorous simulated sex and the appearance of both actors being fully nude – although there were modesty coverings for both, kept carefully out of shot
Kate Winslet’s co-star left her with ‘lots of bruises’ after wild sex scene