Angourie Rice on her new role with Kate Winslet

20-year-old Australian actress Angourie Rice has revealed the intimate scene she filmed alongside Kate Winslet in a car boot for her new role in an HBO series.

Angourie Rice is the 20-year-old Australian who began her career working with the likes of Ryan Gosling.

The young star had her breakout role in The Nice Guys, playing Gosling’s daughter, before appearing in two Spider-Man flicks.

Now, she is about to star in an expensive seven-part HBO series, Mare of Easttown, alongside superstars Kate Winslet and Guy Pearce, premiering April 19 on Binge.

Rice caught up with news.com.au to chat about her recent experience, what to expect from the dark new show … and the intimate scene in a car she filmed with Kate Winslet.

Angourie Rice’s big break in Hollywood was alongside Ryan Gosling in The Nice Guys. Picture: Supplied

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On working with Winslet, Rice described it exactly as would be expected.

“It was amazing. It was so wonderful, she is so generous and generous with her time and energy. She brought so much fun to set because it’s kind of a dark show… so it was nice. She made everyone feel so safe and welcome. We had a really good time which was really important because the show covers such heavy things.”

As for that intimate scene in a car, it’s actually pretty heartwarming.

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Angourie Rice at the Sydney premiere of Mare of Easttown. Picture: James Gourley/Binge

“It was an intimate scene between me and another girl, and it was the other girl’s first day. It was in a car, so it was me, this other girl, two cameramen in the back, and then Kate hopped in the boot of the car because she wanted us to feel safe! Usually if you’re in a car, they do direction over a walkie-talkie, and she didn’t want it all over a walkie-talkie so she was giving us direction from the car which was so nice. It made everyone feel comfortable and we just had a laugh about it which was a good way to go about it”

Legend behaviour!

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Mare of Easttown starts streaming on Binge on April 19. Picture: Supplied

While Rice has played various different roles, her character of Siobhan in this new series was definitely one of the hardest characters she had to portray.

“I think what was challenging about Siobhan is that she has gone through a lot of grief and trauma in her life and she is learning how to cope with that and express that. I think getting in that head space is quite challenging because it’s quite dark and also it’s hard to hold onto that over COVID. We had 8 months break between filming and I didn’t want to let her go.”

Mare of Easttown premieres on Binge on Monday, April 19

Originally published as Angourie Rice on her new role with Kate Winslet