Remember When Kate Winslet Scheduled A Sex Scene On Saoirse Ronan’s Birthday?

I haven’t seen Ammonite because it looks like everything i hate in a movie — hours of eye contact, longing, and dull af dialogue ends in some abrupt fingering through a petticoat. I will probably never see it, and yet the film will haunt me forever because I once read a story about how Kate Winslet rescheduled a sex scene with Saoirse Ronan in order to film said scene on the actress’s birthday. Happy Birthday, indeed.

Apparently even fictionally fucking Kate Winslet is so great that she thought filming the scene on Saoirse’s birthday would give her “frankly, a great memory in her film life.” I’d imagine that’s a p good memory in her regular life, too. “I knew that it would be [great] just because of the experience that we would share together. I knew that it would be very equal.”

The way this lesbian sex scene is discussed is quite strange. Winslet describes the grown man and professional directing the film, Francis Lee, as “really nervous” about shooting a love scene between two women. “He was so concerned to be appropriate in terms of his behavior,” Winslet said. MMMMMMk. What was he going to do differently from any other sex scene? Or any other scene???

In order to make themselves feel better because men are useless, Winslet and Saoirse choreographed the…