Kate Winslet gets more recognized for ‘The Holiday’ than ‘Titanic’
nypost.comKate Winslet claims that she gets stopped more often for her 2006 rom-com “The Holiday” rather than the 1997 drama that made her famous, “Titanic.”“People come up to me in the streets more about ‘The Holiday’ and the episode of ‘Extras’ that I did than ‘Titanic,’” she said during “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Wednesday.The British actress appeared on an episode of the sitcom “Extras” in 2005, where she played a fictionalized version of herself.
Years earlier, she starred as Rose DeWitt Bukater in the James Cameron-directed drama, alongside a young Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson.After becoming a household name, Winslet went on to major success — and joined “The Holiday” in 2006.
She played an unlucky in love journalist named Iris and starred alongside Jack Black, Jude Law and Cameron Diaz. According to Winslet, many women approach her about the beloved movie.“Especially at Christmas, and what’s so lovely is that mothers and daughters come up to me in the grocery store and they say, ‘OK, we just love ‘The Holiday.’ It’s our little ritual at Christmas,'” she told host Jimmy Fallon. “And they have things that they eat every year.”She continued: “They sit down, it’s a tradition, and I just love that.
That’s something I never would have expected, this sort of mother-daughter connection around a film like that. It’s so nice.
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