![]() “I have never been given so much control before. We can have the conversation about what we like and what we expect, or what we looked for in sex and how that changes depending on the day or the mood or who you’re with. “It was my first experience working on an intimate scene like this, because it was my first time having an intimate scene with another woman. RELATED: What to expect from Marvel Studios’ first TV series WandaVision Saoirse Ronan’s breakout role was in Atonement. “It was the given from the very beginning of the shoot that Kate and I would do that. “The sex scenes between the two of them weren’t overly written in the script, and because of that, it allowed us to really step in during rehearsals and take the reins in terms of the choreography,” she said. Ronan said the scenes were among the reasons she signed on for the project. Perhaps the reason the erotic scene doesn’t feel vulgar or subject to the objectification of the male gaze is that Ronan and Winslet were empowered to choreograph the action, even without an on-set intimacy co-ordinator. Despite the frosty start, the women soon find much needed solace and passion in the other, culminating in that almost frenzied sex scene. Mary resents the imposition but also can’t turn down the money. Mary meets Charlotte when Charlotte’s husband leaves the young woman in Mary’s care as he gallivants off to Europe. Lee’s film dramatises Anning as an impoverished woman still searching for fossils to sell to tourists, the only way to support herself and her elderly mother. Set in the mid-19th century, Ammonite draws inspiration from historical figure Mary Anning, a geologist whose work has mostly been erased in history by men who literally took credit for her remarkable fossil finds along the Jurassic Coast of her home, Lyme Regis. RELATED: Little Women will make you a blubbering mess ![]() “But audience members from the LGBTQ+ community who have watched the film feel so excited that a movie like this has been made and we’re seeing many more of them in the past few years, and to be part of that movement in any way is an honour.”Īmmonite is an intense romance between two women. “It becomes very much about the intimacy between two people. “Yes, it is an LGBTQ+ story, but I also feel it goes beyond that and it’s just incredibly human more than anything,” the Irish actor said. ![]() Ronan, who at the age of 26 has already been nominated for four Oscars, the first when she was 13, said she viewed the relationship between her character Charlotte and Winslet’s character Mary as transcending labels. It gives the film, directed by God’s Own Country filmmaker Francis Lee, an immediately higher profile. That Ammonite stars Winslet and Ronan is not insignificant. Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Celine Sciamma’s burning period romance featuring two women, played extremely well critically and on the festival circuit, but it was a French film that, in English-language territories, mostly played to an art house audience. Ammonite’s actors choreographed their sex scene
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