Kate Winslet guesses lines from some of her most famous roles, like 'Titanic', 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' and 'Mare of Easttown.' She reflects on how well she and Leonardo DiCaprio know each other, what it meant to win an Oscar for 'The Reader' and why she wanted to be a part of 'Avatar: The Way of Water.'
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00:00 Who have I played who would say something so terrible?
00:02 Next!
00:03 This is hilarious, I love this game.
00:05 I can hold my breath for 7 minutes and 15 seconds.
00:07 Oh my god.
00:13 I want you to draw me like one of your French girls.
00:17 That's Rose in Titanic.
00:18 Jack, I want you to draw me like one of your French girls.
00:23 People don't particularly quote lines from Titanic to me,
00:26 but people will almost always tell me about their experience of seeing Titanic for the first time.
00:33 With the re-releases of Titanic that have existed over the years,
00:37 there's a whole other generation of young people who are now loving that film,
00:40 and it's the gift that keeps giving, you know,
00:42 and it's obviously informed so much of my entire career,
00:45 so I just feel enormous gratitude for all of it.
00:47 This is hilarious, I love this game.
00:49 If being crazy means living life as if it matters,
00:52 then I don't care if we're completely insane.
00:55 Was that the character of Sarah in Little Children?
00:57 Okay, hold on, let me try again.
00:59 If being crazy means living life as if it matters,
01:02 then I don't care if we're completely insane.
01:04 Is it Clementine in Eternal Sunshine?
01:06 Let me try again.
01:07 If being crazy means living life as if...
01:09 It's definitely an American accent.
01:10 Oh, it's Rose in Titanic again!
01:12 Oh!
01:13 Oh my god, so it's Revolutionary Road.
01:16 Oh yes, that's right.
01:16 Did I really say that line in Revolutionary Road?
01:20 If being crazy means living life as if it matters,
01:24 then I don't care if we're completely insane.
01:26 Working with Leo for a second time on Revolutionary Road
01:30 was really, really amazing,
01:33 and kind of interesting because we had evolved so much as people
01:36 and as actors, I think,
01:37 and we had to be very, very close on Revolutionary Road
01:40 because we had to be so hard on each other,
01:42 and it was an immensely emotionally challenging experience
01:45 for both of us.
01:46 Leo and I are able to really push each other,
01:49 and also I think because we have known each other for such a long time,
01:52 we know each other so well,
01:54 so I can sort of see the shape of his eyeball change,
01:56 and I will know what that means or what he's thinking,
01:59 and I would say probably he would feel the same about me.
02:02 You're supposed to be the leading lady of your own life, for God's sake.
02:07 That was said by my character Iris in The Holiday.
02:11 Next!
02:13 You're supposed to be the leading lady of your own life, for God's sake.
02:17 The character of Iris who I play in The Holiday,
02:19 I think the thing that made her so winning
02:22 was that there are elements of her that everyone could relate to.
02:26 That girl wanting to be loved,
02:28 that sort of old-fashioned idea of romance,
02:31 and wanting to be swept off her feet by somebody,
02:33 and so I certainly related to all of those sides of that character, yeah.
02:37 Okay, let's go.
02:37 I'm making you some fettuccine.
02:40 Christmas fettuccine.
02:41 I can't honestly say I've ever even considered making Christmas fettuccine
02:46 because what would you really put in it to make it Christmassy?
02:50 I don't know.
02:50 I mean, because I'm English and we have turkey at Christmas time,
02:53 whereas obviously Americans have turkey at Thanksgiving.
02:55 What would you put in a Christmas fettuccine?
02:58 Maybe that's something for this year.
03:00 Maybe I'll try that.
03:01 Next one.
03:01 Okay.
03:02 I'm just a fucked up girl who's looking for my own peace of mind.
03:06 Not perfect.
03:07 That's Clementine from Eternal Sunshine,
03:09 and that line is quoted to me all the time.
03:11 I'm just a fucked up girl who's looking for my own peace of mind.
03:14 I'm not perfect.
03:16 I actually saw someone on a subway who had it tattooed on the outside of their forearm.
03:21 People put it on t-shirts, everything.
03:24 So that has actually strangely become really quite a famous line,
03:28 in my life anyway, because people say it to me a lot.
03:30 My two older children, Mia and Joe, when they were in their teenage years,
03:35 they and their friends very much discovered Eternal Sunshine,
03:39 and the soundtrack in particular.
03:41 And so I would hear their friends saying these lines all the time,
03:44 and I was like, "God, I didn't kind of anticipate that that would happen."
03:47 Because my son Joe wasn't even born when we made the film,
03:50 and Mia was only two.
03:51 So yeah, that's become quite a key line in my life, actually.
03:55 This is a fun game.
03:57 I'm liking this.
03:58 "Future belongs to those who know."
04:01 The future belongs to those who know where they belong.
04:06 That is Janine in Divergent.
04:08 Definitely.
04:10 The future belongs to those who know where they belong.
04:14 I think if I was to pick my faction, I'm definitely Divergent.
04:18 But then I think, aren't most actors?
04:20 Surely.
04:21 I don't think any of us would consider ourselves to be erudite in any way.
04:24 I certainly wouldn't.
04:25 This is a really great, fun, silly game.
04:28 Always resignation and acceptance.
04:31 Always prudence and honour and duty, Eleanor.
04:34 That is Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility.
04:37 That's quite impressive, you know.
04:39 That is nearly 30 years ago.
04:41 Always resignation and acceptance.
04:43 Always prudence and honour and duty.
04:48 Sense and Sensibility came at a time in my life when I was really at the very,
04:53 very beginning of my career.
04:55 You have to remember, back in those days for young actresses in particular,
04:59 there wasn't very much work to go around.
05:02 So having a career in acting was something that,
05:04 you know, one's parents would say,
05:08 "You really should have another string to your bow.
05:10 I'm not sure it's a very hard life for an actor."
05:12 We didn't have streaming services.
05:14 We had three television channels in this country.
05:16 There was occasionally a big film that might come along.
05:19 And some sort of small independent films, if you were lucky, and voiceover work.
05:24 So there was really very little to go around.
05:27 And I just remember every day on Sense and Sensibility thinking,
05:31 "I'm sure they read the wrong name off the list
05:34 and they phoned me up by accident and gave me the part."
05:36 But actually they were too embarrassed to say that they'd made a mistake
05:39 and they'd meant to cast somebody else.
05:40 So I spent most of my time on that shoot having an amazing time,
05:44 a lovely time, and I learned so much.
05:47 But also just thinking, "Why the hell am I here?
05:50 What the fuck am I doing here? How on earth did they cast me?"
05:53 And having to step up to the plate.
05:54 I mean, I was every day surrounded by these serious pedigree actors,
05:58 Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman.
06:00 I remember meeting Alan Rickman.
06:01 It's the only time really in my entire career that I can honestly say,
06:06 "I did slightly feel my legs go from under me and I had to really keep it together."
06:11 He just had that imposing, extraordinary presence.
06:14 It was a proper, proper pinch-me-dream-come-true moment.
06:18 She was my spirit sister.
06:22 That is Ronal in Avatar 2.
06:26 God, I'm quite glad I can remember these.
06:29 It was my spirit sister.
06:31 I was a huge fan of the first movie.
06:34 It really took my breath away.
06:35 Just not only the technology, but the performances, Zoe and Sam.
06:39 And I thought the underlying themes connected to climate change
06:42 and the destruction that man is having on the natural world,
06:46 I found that to be incredibly powerful in the first film.
06:49 And so when Jim approached me and asked me to be in the second one,
06:52 I was just thrilled.
06:54 I mean, I just didn't think twice.
06:55 I've always been very comfortable in water.
06:57 Loved being in water, on the water, underwater.
07:00 I can hold my breath for seven minutes and 15 seconds.
07:03 Next one.
07:04 You don't have the power to upset me.
07:07 You don't matter enough to upset me.
07:09 Ah.
07:09 You don't have the power to upset me.
07:12 You don't matter enough to upset me.
07:15 Who have I played who would say something so terrible?
07:18 It must be...
07:19 Is it my character I played last year in The Regime?
07:21 Hannah Schmitt said that?
07:24 Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah.
07:25 Clever. Well done.
07:27 God, how funny.
07:27 God, how weird that I wouldn't remember that.
07:30 God, how weird that I wouldn't remember that.
07:32 You don't have the power to upset me.
07:34 You don't matter enough to upset me.
07:37 Being in films that are recognised enough that nominations happen for things,
07:44 that in and of itself is an experience,
07:46 because you really don't go into making a movie with that in your mind at all.
07:52 All you're thinking is, "Oh, God, please don't let me fuck this up."
07:54 And actually to win an Academy Award for that film,
07:58 which was extremely difficult for me,
08:01 it was a very rewarding feeling.
08:03 The computer in 2001 said, "Hello," all of this.
08:06 The computer in 2001 said, "Hello," all the time,
08:11 and it still scared the shit out of me.
08:13 That's Joanna Hoffman in Steve Jobs.
08:15 The computer in 2001 said, "Hello," all the time,
08:17 and it still scared the shit out of me.
08:19 It absorbed me.
08:20 Like the rest of us, I do have an iPhone.
08:22 I have such a love-hate relationship with it.
08:24 Every year I think, "Okay, that's it. I'm getting rid of this thing.
08:27 This is crazy."
08:28 Actually, I just had a vacation with my family
08:30 where we were on a boat in Alaska for 10 days
08:33 with no Wi-Fi, no cell reception at all.
08:35 And it was remarkable how easy it was to switch off.
08:40 I didn't feel the need to check email or WhatsApp.
08:44 So I thought, "Well, if it was that easy,
08:46 then surely I can build that structure into my life."
08:49 Doing something great is overrated,
08:55 because then people expect that from you all the time.
08:58 What they don't realize is that you're just as screwed up as they are.
09:01 That has got to be Clementine from Eternal Sunshine as well.
09:04 Okay, so no.
09:05 Doing something great is overrated,
09:07 because then people expect that from you all the time.
09:09 Oh, it's Mare. It's Mare. Yeah.
09:11 Doing something great is overrated.
09:14 Because then people expect that from you.
09:18 Oh, God, I remember shooting that scene as well.
09:21 It was absolutely freezing cold.
09:24 We were so cold, our faces were going blue,
09:26 and it took me ages to warm up afterwards, I remember.
09:29 But yeah, it's a good scene, that. I like that scene.
09:32 Best for last.
09:32 All the best people have bad chest and bone diseases.
09:36 It's all frightfully romantic.
09:39 That is Juliet in Heavenly Creatures.
09:41 That's where I only got two wrong.
09:43 All the best people have bad chest and bone diseases.
09:47 It's all frightfully romantic.
09:50 I wanted to go into acting
09:53 because, quite honestly, so many people in my family were doing it.
09:56 I just thought, "Oh, I want to do that. That seems like fun."
09:58 And I had just grown up around it.
10:00 But I had grown up around people who were doing it because they loved it,
10:04 not because it was in any way financing their life.
10:08 And so I had a really great association with what it meant to be an actor.
10:13 It meant having fun. It meant playing characters.
10:15 It meant dressing up. It meant being somebody else.
10:17 It meant being inventive and creative.
10:19 That's what I wanted to do.
10:20 I think advice for my younger self, I would probably just say,
10:24 "Just relax and enjoy it. Just relax and enjoy it."
10:28 You know, when you're a young person starting out in the industry,
10:30 it feels incredibly stressful.
10:32 I also think back then there was much more scrutiny about how women looked physically.
10:36 And I definitely suffered under the kind of gaze of that.
10:42 But I am proud and thrilled that I think the work that has been done,
10:47 some of the things that hopefully I have said may have contributed over the years
10:52 to perhaps softening that path and creating a shared space for younger actresses
10:57 where they feel nothing other than celebrated and heard.
11:00 And that, that's amazing.
11:03 Like if I died tomorrow, I'd be happy that I might have in some way
11:08 been able to play a part in making things easier.
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