Jack Black Gave Kate Winslet This Nickname on the Set ofThe Holiday(and People Still Use It!)

Mar. 15, 2025

Kate Winsletstill carries a special gift fromJack Blackto this day!

TheLeeactress, 48, was treated to a video message from herThe Holidaycostar on Monday, Sept. 23, during an advanced screening of her new film at The 92nd Street Y in New York City.

After jokingly asking Winslet, “When’sHoliday 2[happening]?”, Black, 55, said in his video, “You’re the best. How you doing? Anyway, I miss you. Love you.”

Kate Winslet and Josh Horowitz at The 92nd Street Y in N.Y.C. on Sept. 23, 2024.Michael Priest Photography

Michael Priest Photography

Laughing, Winslet said during the screening conversation withHappy Sad Confused’s Josh Horowitz that Black “started my nickname.”

“I actually have a little bit of a nickname on set,” she continued. “So my nickname is K Dub, and Jack started that honestly. Now on set, most people say K Dub. Or onLee, shall they ask for Kate? Because there was two of us.”

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Kate Winslet at the U.K. premiere ofLeein London on Sept. 3, 2024.Jeff Spicer/Getty

Jeff Spicer/Getty

InThe Holiday, heartbroken movie-trailer producer Amanda (Cameron Diaz) offers up her Los Angeles mansion in order to get away for the holidays, before similarly downtrodden columnist Iris (Winslet) answers, swapping her English country cottage.

During their visits, Amanda falls for Iris' widower brother Graham (Jude Law), a book editor, while Iris hits it off with film composer Miles (Black), a friend of Amanda’s ex, Ethan (Edward Burns).

During a February appearance onThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Winslet revealed that more people recognize her for her role in the 2006 rom-com than 1997’sTitanic, “especially” during the yuletide season.

Kate Winslet at her 92nd Street Y talk for ‘Lee’ in N.Y.C. on Sept. 23, 2024.Michael Priest Photography

“And actually what’s so lovely is that mothers and daughters come up to me in the grocery store and they say, ‘Oh Kate,we just loveThe Holiday, it’s our little ritual at Christmas,’ ” theOscarwinner told hostJimmy Fallon.

“They have things that they eat every year, they sit down, it’s a tradition and I just love that,” Winslet added. “That’s something I never would have expected actually, the sort of mother-daughter connection around a film like that. It’s so nice. It’s lovely.”

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Despite buzz about a second film,Nancy Meyers, who directed the original film,denied that a sequel was in the worksin December 2022, much to the dismay ofThe Holidayfans everywhere.

Winslet also shut down the rumor to PEOPLE, saying, “I read something about that, but it’s the first I’ve heard of it.”

“I promise you, not an agent or a representative or anyone from the first one around has had any conversation with me about that,” she added. “Hand on heart, that’s never come up.”

But back in June, Law, 51, toldE! Newsthat he"love(s) the idea" of a potential follow-up. And while he noted that fans would “have to ask” Meyers, 74, about getting the movie made, when it comes to his own involvement, he added, “Why not?”

“I think Graham still has cardigans and glasses, and reads,” Law joked of where his character would be today. “He’s probably worried sick about the girls, right? [His] daughters will be 28, 29.”

source: people.com