It was wonderful to be part of something that felt so equal, safe and connected. The intensity of those scenes is so profound because you feel what they feel through their physical expression. So I felt we were able to really create the space for longing between Mary and Charlotte because of the lack of actual words. 'He was brilliantВ at allowing us create our own narrative and actually change a lot of what he had described on the page вЂ“ not because we didn't like it, but because we discovered different things on the day. And also, women know what women want,' Winslet says. 'Francis knew that as a man, he had to allow us as two women to use our power and our knowledge. Winslet, who has done same-sex love scenes before in films such as 1994's 'Heavenly Creatures,' says it was 'very important' to get them right in 'Ammonite.' It was my first time having an experience like that in a sex scene, where you really do have complete control over where the scene goes.' Step 2: I'll nuzzle your neck or whatever.' It was great. 'We got our little notebooks out, like, 'OK, Step 1: You're gonna put your hand on my shoulder. 'In terms of the actual movements, Kate and I planned all that out,' Ronan says. LeeВ outlined the scenes in detail in the script, before stepping back and letting the actors choreograph them in rehearsals. Mary's emotional wall eventually crumbles in the film's second half,В as she and Charlotte give in to their desires in a pair of fiercely intimate and explicit sex scenes. Just go and get a cappuccino!' But I tried to live this quite separate life and that was bloody hard when I've got a family at home. 'Sometimes I'd think, 'Oh, my God, I'm being way too method. I'd write in the pens that Mary would have used and I would draw because she had to draw all her historical finds in order for them to be documented,' Winslet says. She lived alone on weekdays and sawВ her husband, businessman Edward Abel Smith, and three kids on weekends. The 'Titanic' star also isolated herself during filming, staying in a seaside cottage that rattled in the wind and rain, and frequently lost power. The film is loosely inspired by the life of British palaeontologist Mary Anning. 'She chiseled away at it, polished it and everything вЂ“ she really got into it.' Ammonite is a 2020 romantic drama film written and directed by Francis Lee.

'She gave me a beautiful little ammonite that she found,' Ronan recalls. SheВ studiedВ with a paleontologist for months before filming and excavatedВ fossils on the actual EnglishВ coast where Anning worked. Winslet, 45, threw herself into the role.

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