The Last Of Us actor Melanie Lynskey ‘heartbroken’ at losing touch with Kate Winslet

Melanie Lynskey has made a resurgence in the mainstream after her incredible performances in The Last Of Us and Yellowjackets.

Now the New Zealand-born actor, 45, has revealed that she once starred alongside Hollywood sensation Kate Winslet for her Titanic debut.

Despite bonding on the set of Heavenly Creatures in 1994, Melanie was left “heartbroken” when the pair drifted apart following Kate’s rise to crowning fame.

“I think when I lost touch with Kate it was more heartbreaking than some breakups I’ve had. It was so painful,” she told the Happy Sad Confused podcast on Friday.

“It wasn’t like anything happened, she just became a huge international movie star and didn’t have much time.”

Melanie went on to say that the pair “drifted apart” after the movie star flew to Los Angeles following her breakout role in James Cameron’s epic.

“It was so painful for me,” Melanie said.

“Suddenly she’d be in Los Angeles and wouldn’t have time. And it just happened gradually. And it happens in relationships. You gradually drift apart.

Kate and Melanie starred and debuted side by side in Peter Jackson’s 1994 film Heavenly Creatures.

The New Zealand film is a biographical psychological drama about two young women who develop an obsessive bond with each other.

After their parents threaten to break them up, the pair kill one of their mothers to stay together and are later arrested.

Three years after Heavenly Creatures was released, Kate suddenly rose to fame for her iconic role alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in the award-winning movie Titanic.