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Rebel Wilson admits kissing Charlotte Gainsbourg on screen “opened her heart up” to the idea of dating women.
The actress – who stars opposite Gainsbourg in ‘The Almond and the Seahorse' – has reflected on how she reassessed her own sexuality after they locked lips in the new movie, which came shortly before she met her now-fiancee Ramona Agruma.
She told The Hollywood Reporter: “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.”
The shoot took place in 2021 before meeting Ramona by the end of the year, and Rebel credits the movie – and her subsequent “experience” – with becoming more open.
She added: “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.”
The 42-year-old star revealed she knows other actresses who have had similar experiences.
She explained: “I have another actress friend who had to kiss a woman in a show and then she became a lesbian for a bit. [Laughs] And another actress I know here in America, the same thing happened.
“There's a couple that I know of actually. It's something I hadn't thought of before because I had only dated men. I've watched shows about lesbians, like ‘The L Word', but it just never occurred to me.
“I just thought I liked those shows. But kissing Charlotte was a big thing for me. I was so nervous that day because she's so cool and I was really stressed.
“But it was great. Yeah, I don't think I would have been open to Ramona without those experiences, and she's just an amazing partner.”
