Kate Winslet climbed into the trunk of a car to support co-star Angourie Rice, 20, through the sex scene

Kate Winslet revealed that she hid in the trunk of a car to help and train her youngest co-star in a sex scene.

The 45-year-old actress voluntarily assumed the role of intimacy coordinator on the set of the next HBO series, Mare of Easttown, to support her on-screen daughter, Angourie Rice, 20.

Speaking to Samira Ahmed on the How I Found My Voice podcast, Kate told how no intimacy coordinator was hired for the scene because the characters remain dressed all the time.

She said: ‘Because there was no clothes left on the scene, they didn’t think to bring an intimacy coordinator.

– And I realized she was nervous. So I said to her, “I’m going to stay here for this, I’m going to stay, I’m not going to leave the set.”

‘She said,’ Thank God Kate, thank you very much. ‘And I ended up staying in the car. I ended up staying in the trunk of the car.

‘I knew they would feel better if they had that person able to raise their hands and say,’ Actually, we need to cut it now, is everyone feeling well? ‘

“Sometimes, even the directors don’t feel comfortable communicating with the actors about intimate scenes, even if it’s just a kiss.”

In the limited series, which also stars Julianne Nicholson and Evan Peters, Kate stars as a Pennsylvania detective investigating a local murder.

Kate also revealed that she and Ammonite’s co-star, Saoirse Ronan, did not have an intimacy coordinator for their love scenes in the film.

She said, ‘It’s interesting that we didn’t have them on Ammonite and I think partly because, at the time we made the film, it was 2019. The intimacy coordinators were just becoming one thing, they weren’t a legal requirement for sets of footage. ‘

‘Ammonite was really a very low budget film, we didn’t have stunt doubles, hand stunt doubles, we barely had a snack. It was not something that was ever offered to us.

‘But Saoirse and I felt very confident about what we wanted to do with the characters in these intimate scenes. I think the two of us together kind of taking care of each other made us feel a little better.

The Oscar winner said she would like intimacy coordinators to be commonplace on film sets in the past.

She said, ‘I would definitely like to have them in the past, I definitely would. I really could have done that to that friend.

‘Just having a friend say,’ can you just ask him not to get his hands on it? ‘So you don’t have to say it, which can be very strange.