In this years fall drama, “Revolutionary Road,” Kate Winslet and her co-star Leonardo Dicaprio get yet another chance to dry hump on screen. But this time around, it was a bit more awkward than their romance in the 1997 flick “Titantic” which you may have heard of. Sam Mendes, who happens to be Winslet husband also happens to be the director of the film.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Winslet described how the experience was a bit uncomfortable. “I kept saying, ‘This is too weird.’ And Leo was like, ‘Oh, get over it.’ And I’m going, ‘Yeah, a little reminder: You’re my best friend. He’s my husband. This is a bit weird.” Even the man in charge of it all, Mendes, found the experience strange, “I will admit it was quite bizarre to direct my wife in how to make love.”
But do not fret, according the Winslet the scenes will not suffer from the tensions of the on-set love triangle, “I hadn’t realized how much my chemistry with him since ‘Titanic’ would stick. It is great to discover we can just slip right into it, like muscle memory.” Hmm, Sam may have gotten himself in a little to deep with this one. Though it’s clearly Oscar-bait material, Mendes is apparently still editing the film and it won’t be at any of the prestigious fall film festivals.
“Revolutionary Road” is being released this winter on December 19th. Based on the award winning novel by Richard Yates,, the story centers around a suburban Connecticut couple who yearn for something outside their mundane lives. Director, Sam Mendes has directed “American Beauty” and “Road to Perdition,” and the peerless cinematographer, Roger Deakins, has been shooting the Coen Brothers films since “Barton Fink” (along with other films, such as “In the Valley of Elah” and “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford”) . Thomas Newman, the highly acclaimed composer is scoring the film, and he is sure to turn a great one, some of his selected credits include “The Shawshank Redemption,” “American Beauty,” “Road to Perdition” and “Little Children.”