told Entertainment Weekly Monday. “But what I really see close up is that it’s almost impossible to actually get anything done. It’s just impossible.
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Kate Winslet has tackled so many major projects over the years, and the one that she is most often recognized for might surprise you.
The 48-year-old actress became a household name after she starred in Titanic alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in the ’90s. More recently, she’s found success with projects such as Mare of Easttown and Avatar.
During a new interview, Kate revealed what most fans remember her for starring in. It’s not any of the above-mentioned movies. However, it almost starred Robert Downey Jr.
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The movie in question is 2006′s festive rom-com The Holiday. The movie starred Kate, Cameron Diaz, Jude Law and Jack Black.
“People come up to me in the street more about The Holiday than Titanic. I promise you,” she admitted while on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. “Especially at Christmas. Mothers and daughters come up to me at the grocery store and say it’s their ritual at Christmas. It’s a tradition. I love that. That’s something I never would have expected, that mother-daughter connection around a film like that.”
Interestingly, host Jimmy Fallon and Robert were both in the running for Jack and Jude‘s parts, respectively.
“I remember it extremely well. I really do,” Kate told Jimmy about an audition with the actors. “We were told it was just a reading. I thought it was just a reading, like a fun reading of the script. I didn’t know it was an audition for the part. I am so sorry you didn’t get it. I’m sorry if I happened to be mean or rude to you in any way.”
She jokingly continued, recalling that, “Robert Downey Jr. then did an English accent but I thought it was an Australian accent.”
“I thought, ‘That’s bad. That’s not going to work. Who is going to tell him that sounds
told Entertainment Weekly Monday. “But what I really see close up is that it’s almost impossible to actually get anything done. It’s just impossible.
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After Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall powered its way to five Oscar nominations, it was a common feeling that the film’s MVP was short-changed on the big night. Though the film went home with Best Original Screenplay, Messi — the seven-year-old border collie who plays Snoop, the family dog who becomes an integral part of the courtroom drama — was not so lucky, returning empty-pawed to his native Paris. Not that he was an ungracious loser; a clip of the hound applauding Robert Downey Jr.’s win for Oppenheimer went viral, not least because it brought a huge spontaneous smile to the face of Barbie’s Ryan Gosling.
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