'E! News Daily' - April 1999

 

From E! News Daily:

Host Steve Kmetko: "Her place in movie history would be assured because of her Oscar-nominated role in the mega-hit 'Titanic'. But she's not retiring, and she continues to make movies. At Thursday [April 15] night's special screening of her latest film, 'Hideous Kinky', it was as if the 'Titanic' media madness was back."

[Clip of Kate, titled "Leo who?" - Kate signing an autograph - she was more interested in doing a good job on the autograph than in "posing" for the photographers. That's our Kate!] Photographers: "Kate, look this way, please." "Kate, Kate!" She replied, "OK, hold on one second 'cause I can't…I'll end up writing someone else's name."


Steve: "At the 'Hideous Kinky' screening at Lincoln Center's British Film Festival, everyone wanted a little piece of Winslet. The newlywed actress posed with her husband of five months, James Threapleton.

 

"They met on the set of 'Hideous Kinky' where he worked as Assistant Director. We asked, 'is married life all it's cracked up to be?'"

Kate: "Absolutely, completely normal as anything. We're a regular couple and we have a great time. I think if anything, it's just, you know, a more grounding thing. I think everybody who gets married will say that."

Steve [voice-over; clip of flying scene from "Titanic"]: "An Oscar nomination for 'Titanic' has made Kate a hot commodity in Hollywood these days."

Kate: "It's been, you know, it's been amazing. At first it was all very explosive and then I had to kind of remember to bring myself back down to earth, and, you know, it's very normal, it's very normal."

Steve: "But don't expect another 'Titanic' from Kate just now. Her new film, 'Hideous Kinky' is something completely different."

Kate: "The movie is very exciting. It's almost like a little kind of very colorful road movie. It's a lot to do with kind of family values and how you can raise children in this world and not have to have lots and lots of money to do it, and you can raise them very, very well."

Steve [voice-over; clip of HK]: "Winslet plays a free-spirited mom who tours exotic Morocco with her young daughters. So, does Kate plan to get on the 'mommy track' anytime soon?"

Kate: No…[laughing]…too young, too young, long way to go yet."


[Either she was "joshing" or a "long way to go" meant about 8 months-LOL.]

 

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