'Mare Of Easttown': Kate Winslet Admits She's No Longer Comfortable Doing Nude Scenes

Kate Winslet has shared her thoughts on onscreen nudity, revealing that she's no longer comfortable stripping down in front of the camera.

In an interview with The New York Times, the 45-year-old actress reflected on her "Mare of Easttown" intimate scene with Guy Pearce, who starred as Richard Ryan, her character Mare Sheehan's author love interest. Winslet played a small-town Pennsylvania detective who's working to find a murderer while dealing with the grief of her son's suicide in the HBO limited series, which aired its final episode over the weekend.

According to Winslet, she'd questioned whether she wanted to do a sex scene, but her husband, Edward Abel Smith, encouraged her to go ahead with it.

"In episode one, she’s having sex on a couch. I said to my husband, 'Am I OK with that? Is it all right that I’m playing a middle-aged woman who is a grandmother who does really make a habit of having one-night stands?'" she said. "He’s like, 'Kate, it’s great. Let her do it.'"

Despite having her husband's support, however, Winslet suggested that she may never do nude scenes for projects again.

"I think my days are getting a little bit numbered of doing nudity," she told The New York Times. "I’m just not that comfortable doing it anymore."

"It’s not even really an age thing, actually. There comes a point where people are going to go, 'Oh, here she goes again,'" she explained.

Speaking about "Mare of Easttown," Winslet shared that she had asked the show's director, Craig Zobel, to leave her body untouched for the final cut of her intimate scene with Pearce. Zobel "assured her he would cut ‘a bulgy bit of belly" from the scene, but she told him, "Don't you dare!"

The four-time Golden Globe winner also revealed that she sent HBO's promotional poster back twice before final approval because it was too retouched for her liking. She also disclosed the tricks used to make her look like a real middle-aged woman.

According to "The Reader" star, they used dark lighting to make her skin look dull. They also used minimal makeup and had her ride a Peloton to enlarge her thigh muscles to change her walk.

"Listen, I hope that in playing Mare as a middle-aged woman — I will be 46 in October — I guess that’s why people have connected with this character in the way that they have done because there are clearly no filters," she said.

In the same interview, Winslet gushed over Smith, whom she married in 2012. "He looks after us, especially me. I said to him earlier, like, 'Neddy, could you do something for me?' He just went, 'Anything,'" she said. "He is an absolutely extraordinary life partner."

She also spoke about how supportive Smith is when it comes to her projects. "I'm so, so, so lucky. For a man who is severely dyslexic, as he is, he's great at testing me on lines. It's so hard for him to read out loud, but he still does it," Winslet shared.

Winslet and Smith share 7-year-old son Bear Blaze. Winslet is also a mom to Mia Honey Threapleton, 20, with ex-husband Jim Threapleton, and Joe Mendes, 17, with ex Sam Mendes.