Kate Winslet Makes A Shocking Statement About Fellow Actors In Hollywood

Kate Winslet has never shied away from speaking her mind to the media, and her April 2021 interview with The Sunday Times is no exception. The actor has had a long run in the industry, and per her IMDb page, Winslet's career began in 1991 when she played the role of Reet on the television series Dark Season. Winslet has starred in plenty of big-name films, including Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Sense and Sensibility, and of course, Titanic. Her role in The Reader earned her the first Oscar of her career in 2009, and she's been in plenty of movies since.

In 2004, Winslet hosted Saturday Night Live, and in a 2020 interview with People, she was honest about her time on the popular show. "When I did SNL, I was on the week after Ashlee Simpson. I was the next show after," she revealed. "Let me tell you, that studio was just a hotbed of anxiety."

She continued, "There's this thing of the opening monologue and they kept saying to me, 'Kate we're so sorry, we just don't have it yet, give us a moment.'" The actor shared that by dress rehearsal, she still didn't have an opening monologue and it caused her a ton of stress and anxiety. In an April 2021 interview, the actor made another surprising confession about some of her colleagues. 

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While promoting her film Ammonite — in which she and Saoirse Ronan play lovers — Kate Winslet sat down with The Sunday Times for an interview with the headline: "Kate Winslet on why she's fed up with Hollywood hypocrisy. In the April 2021 interview, the actor made some bold accusations against the industry. 

One of the hot topics was sexuality, and Winslet claimed to know several actors who are afraid to come out of the closet. "I cannot tell you the number of young actors I know — some well known, some starting out — who are terrified their sexuality will be revealed and that it will stand in the way of their being cast in straight roles," she told the publication. "Now that's f**ked up."

"I'm telling you," the actor continued. "A well-known actor has just got an American agent and the agent said, 'I understand you are bisexual. I wouldn't publicize that.' I can think of at least four actors absolutely hiding their sexuality. It's painful. Because they fear being found out. And that's what they say. 'I don't want to be found out.'"

Winslet went on to share that she knows that she could have taken her role in Ammonite from someone else, and she's done "not being honest about what [her] real opinions are." Additionally, Winslet shared that she was glad to bring an LGBTQ story to life on the big screen.