Kate Winslet Will get Mistaken for This Fellow Actress “A Lot”—However Calls the Combine-Up “A Enormous Praise”

Kate Winslet is an Academy Award winner, a star of blockbuster movies like Titanic, and a Hollywood veteran of over 25 years, however she nonetheless will get mistaken for one more Kate (properly, on this case, Cate) within the enterprise—Cate Blanchett, to be precise.

Winslet mentioned the mix-up “occurs rather a lot,” but it surely doesn’t upset her—in actual fact, she mentioned, it “is a big praise,” per Folks. Winslet was on the premiere of her forthcoming HBO present The Regime when she instructed Entry Hollywood that not solely does the confusion occur regularly, however that she goes together with it: “I say ‘Oh, thanks a lot,’” she mentioned. “They usually say, ‘Cherished you in Elizabeth,’ and I say, ‘Thanks. That’s so type.’ And she or he will get the identical factor, the place folks will say to her, ‘Cherished you in Sense and Sensibility,’ or ‘Cherished you in Titanic.’” Displaying reverence to her fellow Oscar winner, Winslet added “To be mistaken for Cate Blanchett is a big praise. So, no, I’ll take it. I’ll take it.”

Each Winslet and Blanchett have been on The Graham Norton Present final week, and Blanchett confirmed that it’s not simply Winslet who will get mistaken for her: “I get it on a regular basis,” Blanchett mentioned of being mistaken for her fellow Cate/Kate. “Folks will say, ‘Is it you? Is it you?’ and I say, ‘Sure. I believe so.’ After which they are saying, ‘I cherished you in Titanic.’”

Winslet not too long ago opened as much as PORTER about scuffling with fame early in her profession, coping with particularly troublesome scrutiny on the heels of Titanic’s 1997 launch. “I felt like I needed to look a sure method, or be a sure factor, and since media intrusion was so important at the moment, my life was fairly disagreeable,” she mentioned. “Journalists would all the time say, ‘After Titanic, you possibly can have carried out something and but you selected to do these small issues.’ And I used to be like, ‘Yeah, you wager your life I did! As a result of guess what? Being well-known was horrible.’”