Kate Winslet gets candid on being typecast in Hollywood Entertainment 'I can think of at least four actors absolutely hiding their sexuality,' said Kate Winslet Kate Winslet opened up about how actors get typecast in Hollywood, so much so, that homosexual actors are forced to hide their sexuality over the fear of being treated differently. The British actor, while speaking to Sunday Times Culture, said she knows “at least four actors” who weren’t willing to make their sexuality public due to being “terrified” that it will “stand in the way” in an industry that harbours “judgment, discrimination and homophobia.”