Before the interview, Rosie was joking about how Kate was smoking in her dressing room, and how all British guests she has smoke.
Rosie: Please say hello to Kate Winslet! (entrance and applause)
Kate: Hello! I'm a smoker! (jokingly)
Yeah, but hang on a minute. OK. My habit, I smoke. But you apparently pick your nose and play with play-dough.
Rosie: When I was younger Kate, when I was younger. I still play with play-dough. The picking nose I'll tell you about at commercial.
Rosie: Well there was a little smoking going on, but it's alright. You're of age, you're British.
Kate: You gonna keep eating me up about this?
Rosie: No I'm not, I'm not.
Kate: Oh dear, its terrible, I know.
Rosie: How are you, are you good?
Kate: I'm fine
Rosie: Congratulations on the movie first of all.
Kate: Thank you.
Rosie: You've seen it I take it
Kate: I have, I have seen it but only properly the other night. I went to a proper movie theatre, and I paid, and I cued up, and I sneaked into the back row with my friends. And I was trying to be sort of very calm and collected about the whole thing, and then it all went terribly wrong because I drank too much Diet Coke and I needed to pee from the minute the film started.
And then I was sort of shuffling around a little bit in my seat and I kicked the woman in front of me. So she sort of bolted forward, turned around and went 'tsk' like that and I went. (look of sorry fear, and concern)
Rosie: But she didn't recognize you?
Kate: No, not at all! I know, I sort of get away with it. I don't get recognized when I'm walking around and things, so I can still go and to the grocery shopping, and all those normal things.
Rosie: No kidding.
Kate: Absolutely.
Rosie: So nobody at the whole theatre recognized you with you sitting in the movie theatre.
Kate: No.
Rosie: Unlike me whenever I've seen a film I'm in I stand up and go "That's me up there!!! I'm in this film!!!"
Whole different style we have.
Kate: (laughing) Oh god.
Rosie: But you're great in it and you're great in everything as I was telling the audience, the movie Jude that you did, it just, it literally ripped my soul apart.
Kate: Oh thank you very much.
Rosie: It was a small film, it was an independent film I think.
Kate: It was, yes it was, and it didn't sort of go very wide distribution, but it was hard to do. Sort of playing a part of a mother whose child hangs himself and kills the other children. I mean my mom, she said it killed her when she saw it. It did. Out of poverty, it wasn't a mean kid. They didn't have enough money. Yeah, thats right.
Rosie: It wasn't like a psychotic movie like Heavenly Creatures movie which she was in too, and those kids were wako! But this was more of a heart raging story that wrecked me for a full week. I had dreams about that little boy's face.
Kate: Oh God, sorry.
Rosie: That's ok, that's a great performance though
Kate: Thank you very much.
Rosie: When did you start acting? How old were you?
Kate: Well I think I was probably about 1 day old.
Well I don't know. It's very much in my family and I think I sort of always wanted to do it really and I never thought you know, I want to be a star or anything like that.
It just was part of my upbringing beause my dad does it, and my older sister, younger sister, grandparents. And my granfather was a dentist, so used to make teeth in the top of the house, and have the surgery downstairs, and the theatre was in the back garden. So they sort of all grew up with it all around them.
And I remember being cast as Mary in my school nativity play, and thinking 'this is it, this is it, this is it'
Rosie: Yeah right. I did the Wizard of Oz in second grade.
Kate: Fabulous!
Rosie: I was the good witch. I wanted to be Dorothy, but Jan Brenner got the role. And that was the thing that got me. I thought I definitely want to do this for a living.
Rosie: What was your first movie?
Kate: My first movie was Heavenly Creatures.
Rosie: It was, you were great in that as well.
Kate: Thank you, I was 17 when I did that.
Rosie: Do you still live over in England or do you live here now?
Kate: Yes I do, I live in London.
Rosie: You enjoy it?
Kate: I do, a lot. I love London very much. I mean, I love it here, God its fantastic.
Rosie: New York.
Kate: Yeah. It's very tempting. Yeah, you sort of think "Now I wonder if I can afford to buy an apartment here". Its just there's so much to do, and everyone seems to be having such a great time.
Rosie: Have you seen the musical Titanic here in New York?
Kate: No I haven't, I haven't.
Rosie: You must! Kate!
Kate: I know, I must.
(Jokingly) I'm a bit busy doing press runs here.
Rosie: Oh yeah, you're doing a lot of press for that movie.
Kate: God (Laughing)
Rosie: Was it a tough shoot for you? It looks like it was amazingly difficult.
Kate: It was a long shoot. It was 7 months, but there was no shortage of laughs. I mean, you know, I was working with Leo DiCaprio and he's a very funny guy, brilliant actor, I mean he's gifted from God as far as I'm concerned.
Rosie: I've never met him, is he funny?
Kate: He is funny as anything and we would always joke around. We were sort of the naughty children on the set kinda between takes and keeping each other going. Because you have to keep your energy up a lot because there were lots of bug setups and stunts, and extras, and special effects, and all that kind of thing. And we'd sort of sing cheesy songs to eachother, and kind of try and wind each other up a bit. And we really had a great time.
Rosie: Were you in that water tank a lot? I did one movie, I was in the water. Me and Emilio Estevez were in the water for like 12 hours, it was not easy.
Kate: Oh, it's not easy. It's very very exhausting. But really I think the most exhausting part of it was sort of hanging on to the central integrity of the thing, which was the love story of course between Jack and Rose.
And so Jim Cameron and Leo and I were constantly sort of talking about that, and trying to keep all that together amidst all the sort of madness of some of those scenes, but it was tiring.
Rosie: This is sort of a personal question but, you're in the water tank, you're soaking wet, you gotta go to the bathroom.
Kate: You know, when you gotta go, you gotta go!
Rosie: No, isn't it hard? You gotta get out, and then undo all your clothes.
Kate: Oh well that was the thing. I mean, it was so awful 'cause Leo would sometime say to me "Sweetie sweetie...I gotta pee" "So have I!". So we'd kinda swim away 3 meters, la la la la la, "Oh! Warm patch, warm patch!" and then swim back in, and then it would be his turn.
It was terrible really. I mean, it was awful, and you always felt awful doing it, but it took too long with the wet clothes and oh God. So I confess, it happenned, it happened.
Rosie: See, I'm so sick when I'm watching the movie I'm thinking "I wonder if they went pee pee in the water tank, or if they got out"
Kate: We did, we did.
Rosie: It was very gut wrenching in that end scene when he's in the water. I don't want to say anything because people didn's see it but when he's in the water and you're on the raft. It was very gut wrenching.
Kate: It was a tough one. And I have to say it sort of took about, well I mean every thing took a long time because the setups had to be right, and there were a lot of takes and different angles and things, and one of those days was my 21st birthday, and I don't think I told Leo.
We were lying there on the raft sort of shivering together and I said "Leo, it's my birthday today" and he said "that's great sweetie, you know what, I don't care."
Rosie: You're only 21 years old?
Kate: No, I'm 22 now.
Rosie: You're 22 years old?
Kate: Yes I'm 22.
Rosie: She's 22 years old!
Kate: You're 35 and no wrinkles.
Rosie: You know what, if you're chubby, it helps with the wrinkles. Honestly, because if you're thin, your wrinkles show a lot. But if you keep a nice 40 lbs on, boom! you're smooth as silk.
Rosie: It's a little tip to the women out there.
Kate: Bless you!
Rosie: Well, I can't even imagine what is yet to come for you. I did not know you were that young, but you are very eloquent, poised, and articulate, and I find you compelling to watch on screen, I really do.
Kate: Thank you very much.
Rosie: You're awful pretty as well. Thanks for being here Kate Winslet.
