Fans recognise Kate Winslet more for ‘The Holiday’ role, not ‘Titanic’

Los Angeles: Oscar-winning actor Kate Winslet said that more people recognise her for her role in the 2006 romantic comedy ‘The Holiday’ than ‘Titanic’, the 1997 disaster epic.

During an appearance on ‘The Tonight Show’, host Jimmy Fallon asked the actor if she knew ‘The Holiday’, a Christmas movie by Nancy Meyers, would be a big hit. In her reply, Winslet said: “People come up to me in the street more about ‘The Holiday’ and the episode of ‘Extras’ (a TV show) that I did than ‘Titanic’. I promise you, especially at Christmas.”

In James Cameron’s multiple award-winning blockbuster ‘Titanic’, she and Leonardo DiCaprio starred as members of different social classes who fell in love during the maiden and doomed voyage of the Titanic ship.

‘The Holiday’, however, was the story of two lovelorn women - played by Winslet and Cameron Diaz - from opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean who swap their homes to escape heartbreak during the Christmas and holiday seasons.

Winslet, 48, further said that women often tell her they watch the rom-com every Christmas as a ritual.

“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’. And they have things that they eat every year. They sit down. It’s a tradition and I just love that,” she added.