Watch Kate Winslet And Saoirse Ronan Share A Steamy Kiss In ‘Ammonite’ First Trailer

The first trailer for Francis Lee's lesbian drama Ammonite is out. Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan play would-be lovers Mary Anning and Charlotte Murchison in the film, and shared a steamy kiss after their characters' relationship took an unexpected turn.

As the ‘Daily Mail’ reports, the plot centres around the famous paleontologist, who becomes involved in a forbidden romance with Saoirse's character after they are sent to convalesce by the sea together. The trailer opens with Mary Anning detailing how she came across her first fossil when she was eleven-years-old, seemingly speaking to Charlotte Murchison about her life.

Showing Mary hard at work in her shop, she is interrupted by Charlotte's husband Roderick (James McArdle) who wants her to take his partner with her during her trip to the sea to find fossils.

He explains: “My wife, she hasn't been at all well of late, she suffers from melancholia, I want her to walk the shoreline with you, learn from you.”

Mary tells him that she's “not looking for an apprentice” but relents when he pushes for her to do so.

Although the two women seem to be tentative around each other initially, a warm friendship begins to bloom the longer they spend time together.

Slowly, the chemistry between the pair seems to bloom.

During a quiet moment together, the pair share a kiss, with Charlotte reaching out to Mary and cradling her face before things appear to take an even steamier turn.

Mary later rejects Charlotte after she declares: “I don't want to go back to the life I had before you.”

To which Mary asks: “What about my life?”

The trailer then ends on a quiet note as it shows Mary and Charlotte look at each other and smile as they watch the waves crash over the pebbled beach.

During the early stages of development, Ammonite already faced criticism for a central storyline focusing on a lesbian affair involving Anning and Murchison.

Barbara Anning, a distant niece who still lives near the Jurassic Coast where the palaeontologist made many discoveries, insisted there was no proof she was ever in a same-sex relationship.

At the time, she said: “The lesbian storyline is pure Hollywood as far as I know and there was no suggestion that she was a lesbian at all. That's just what they do I suppose.”

Anning's niece had previously written on an online forum: “I do not believe there is any evidence to back up portraying her as a gay woman... I believe Mary Anning was abused because she was poor, uneducated and a woman. Is that not enough?”

Experts and fans of her work are also upset, claiming the paleontologist, who never married or had children, was “interesting enough” without needing her life spiced up for the sake of a film.

Watch the trailer below:

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