In a recent intimate conversation on the "How To Fail With Elizabeth Day" podcast, 50-year-old actress Kate Winslet opened up about the heartwarming moment when fans recognized her for her iconic film "The Holiday." The actress shared the delight she feels when her Christmas movie has become an inspiration for holiday traditions and the depiction of mother-daughter love.
"What's so lovely is that mothers and daughters come up to me in the grocery store and they say, 'Oh, Kate, we just love The Holiday, it's our little ritual at Christmas,'" she recalled with a smile. "They have things that they eat every year. They sit down to watch it. It's a tradition and I just love that," she continued, her voice filled with emotion.
Kate also revealed that fans remember her for a guest appearance she made on the Ricky Gervais TV series "Extras" in 2005.
Although Kate rose to fame at the age of 22 with her hit movie "Titanic," in which she starred alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, she revealed that the aftermath was "absolutely awful."
"It was a really rough introduction to what it was like to be famous, and it put the fear of God in me," she said elsewhere in the podcast. "I remember thinking, 'I do not want to be famous. This is terrible. This is absolutely awful.'"
"After 'Titanic,' I was actively making choices to do the smallest possible work things I could find, while I was still learning who I was, learning how to act. I needed the space to just figure out who I was as a performer and not to feel pressured into saying yes to things just because there might have been a large salary attached to it," she added, her tone reflecting her determination to find her true self in the industry.
