Mare of Easttown: Kate Winslet ‘hid in boot of car’ to make ‘nervous’ co-star comfortable during sex scene

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Kate Winslet has revealed she hid “in the boot of a car” to make her Mare of Easttown co-star feel comfortable during filming of a sex scene. She said, ‘Thank god Kate, thank you so much!’” The scene took place in a vehicle, so Winslet planted herself where the camera couldn’t see her. “I knew it would make them feel better to have that one person who would be able to put their hand up and say, ‘Actually we need to cut now, is everyone feeling OK?’” Winslet and Rice play mother and daughter in Mare of Easttown, a murder mystery which The Independent called “at times self-consciously novelistic” with “sprinklings of Broadchurch and Happy Valley”. Actors Kate Winslet and Angourie Rice In October, Winslet revealed that she scheduled the filming of a sex scene between her and her Ammonite co-star Saoirse Ronan so it could coincide with Ronan’s birthday.