Kate Winslet’s ‘The Regime’ crew forced off set for laughing at her sex scene
nypost.comKate Winslet stars as the authoritarian leader of a fictional European country in the new black comedy “The Regime.” Premiering Sunday, March 3 (9 p.m.) on HBO and streaming on Max, the six-episode political satire was created by “The Menu” and “Succession” writer Will Tracy.
The story follows a year within the palace of a crumbling regime, led by the volatile and paranoid Chancellor Elena Vernham (Winslet).
Co-stars include Hugh Grant as her political rival, Andrea Riseborough as the palace manager and Martha Plimpton as a US Senator. “We did have a couple of moments when things would happen that were so funny that people would have to be sent out,” Winslet, 48, said at an HBO press conference to discuss the series.She recalled an incident where she was filming a sex scene and, “Two people [on the set] had to be sent out for laughing.
One of them was Alwin Kuchler, our cinematographer, who was a repeat offender. And one of our hair and makeup people [laughed and got sent out] – which was actually kind of a problem,” she explained, because her partner in the intimate scene had tattoos that were done with makeup. “And he was getting sweatier and sweatier.
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