Actress Kate Winslet says sex scenes tiring

Actress Kate Winslet says sex scenes tiring
REUTERS

BERLIN, FEB 10: Actress Kate Winslet said onSaturday she feels uncomfortable doing sex scenes -- because they are awkward and leave her exhausted.

"Love scenes are very hard and they never get any easier,"Winslet, 24, told reporters at the Berlin Film Festival, where she was promoting her latest film "Quills".

The British actress and "Titanic" star co-stars alongsideGeoffrey Rush in the film about the final months in 1794 of the Marquis de Sade -- the notorious French nobleman who gave the world the word "sadism".

Winslet, who also said she was growing tired of mediainterest in her weight, spoke of her awkwardness in filming sex scenes.

"I defy any actor to say it's easy because it's not," shesaid. "It took all day to film (one love scene in "Quills") and we were all very exhausted."

She said it was hard to be undressed in Front of the camerasand crew. But at the end of the day, "you all end up laughing about it and having a good time".

Winslet said she didn'T believe the enormous success of the1997 film "Titanic", in which she co-starred with Leonardo DiCaprio, had cast a shadow over her career.

"Titanic was never a burden," she said. "I am amazed that Iwas involved in a movie of such epic proportions. It is wonderful to be in India, for example, in the foothills of the Himalayas, and to have an 80-year-old man come up to me and, through squinted eyes, say 'Titanic'."

Winslet's fluctuating weight has been the subject of intenseand sometimes unflattering coverage in the British press.

A onetime vocal opponent of diets, which she described as"rubbish", she recently surprised many fans by announcing her intention to go on diet to lose weight gained in her pregnancy.

"About the weight -- yes, it's really a bore," she said whenasked about the media interest in her size.

In "Quills", Winslet plays a maid working in a mental asylumwho is entranced by the asylum's most notorious inmate -- the Marquis de Sade. De Sade's twisted world is marked by rape, menage a trois, gay undertones and betrayal.

"She was a girl who had grown up in the lunatic asylum andhad spent every single day of her life working there and not really seeing the outside world, and yet she seemed to have so much fun amongst all this hell and disaster," Winslet said in an interview earlier with Reuters.

Rush, the Oscar winner for "Shine", said deciding to makethe film had been easy once he heard Winslet would be co-starring.

"I was reading the screenplay and got to page 25 where itsaid I would get to tongue-kiss Kate Winslet," Rush said as his co-star laughed. "I said right then: 'Okay, I'll sign'."

Without missing a beat, Winslet got up out of her chair atthe news conference and moved down the table to where Rush was sitting and nearly knocked him to the ground with a deep kiss.