Men were muscular or well-defined, the women ever so effortlessly thin. Forever taut and toned, sexy bodies, you would come to understand, were the bodies which had sex.
Learning that a director offered Kate Winslet an edit to a sex scene due to a “bulgy bit of belly” was therefore horrifying, but also completely unsurprising. In
Mare of Easttown, Winslet plays a detective who doubles as a grandmother. Her interests include hitting the vape, sipping on post-mix and chewing down a Philly cheese while comfortable in her car. In short, she plays a normal person.
Winslet’s response was sadly more radical than it ever should’ve been: “Don’t you dare.”