Rebel Wilson says kissing a woman for first time in The Almond and the Seahorse inspired her real love life
Rebel Wilson has revealed that kissing Charlotte Gainsbourg for new movie The Almond and the Seahorse opened her eyes to the possibility of dating a woman.
In the drama, which is released on Friday, the actresses play two women who find comfort in each other and embark on an affair while their respective partners are suffering from traumatic brain injuries.
The 42-year-old Australian native - who announced earlier this year that she is dating fashion designer Ramona Agruma - told The Hollywood Reporter that kissing a woman for the first time in the flick influenced her love life off screen.
She said: “I had kind of had a situation with a woman before, not a sexual relationship and we hadn’t kissed or anything. But then the kiss with Charlotte came up. I didn’t think it was that big of a deal or anything.
“Then, weirdly through kissing her in my professional life, I thought, well, maybe I should do that for real in my personal life and see how it goes, which I did.
“If I hadn’t had the experience with Charlotte or the experience with the other woman, I don’t know if I would have ever met Ramona. Having those experiences opened my heart up to it as a possibility. I’m grateful for those two experiences. It changed my love life completely. It’s such an awesome thing.”
Wilson - who admitted she was “so nervous” to film her first kissing scene with Gainsbourg - explained that she shot the film in 2021 and met Agruma at the end of that year.
“I don’t think I would have been open to Ramona without those experiences, and she’s just an amazing partner,” she added to the publication.
