Jack Black InterruptsThe HolidayCostar Kate Winslet's Podcast Interview to Ask 'What's Up withTitanic 2?'

Mar. 15, 2025

Jack Black and Kate Winslet.Photo:Josh Horowitz/YouTube

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Kate Winsletgot a fun surprise fromJack Blackduring a recent podcast interview.

While Winslet, 48, appeared on the Thursday, Sept. 26 episode of theHappy Sad Confusedpodcast to promote her new movieLee, herThe Holidaycostar Black, 55, sent host Josh Horowitz a video in which he jested about potential sequels to several of Winslet’s hit films.

“Does he still love me? Because I really love him,” Winslet said during the podcast, after host Horowitz revealed he was going to play a personal video message Black sent in for the episode.

“Hello Jack Black for Kate Winslet,” Black said in the video. “Hey, Jack Black here — wanted to know, what’s up withTitanic 2?”

Winslet let out a big laugh as Black’s video message wrapped. “He’s such a t—” she quipped, before revealing that Black firstcoined her nickname “K Dub"on the set of their 2006 rom-comThe Holiday.

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“I actually have a little bit of a nickname on set,” she continued. “So my nickname is K Dub, and Jack started that. ‘What up, K Dub?’ and it stuck. Now on set, most people say K Dub. Or onLee, they said, ‘Shall we ask the Kates? Because there were two of us.”

Winslet and Black costarred withCameron DiazandJude LawinThe Holiday, a rom-com that follows an American woman Amanda (Diaz) and British woman Iris (Winslet) who agree to swap homes for a period of time leading up to the Christmas holiday. The pair then meet and fall in love with Black and Law’s characters, named Graham and Miles, over the course of the winter holidays.

While Black jested about the possibility of a sequel in his video, the concept has come up in the past. In December 2022, the movie’s writer-directorNancy Meyersdenied rumors that she was working on a sequel, while Winslet shared at the time that the idea had “never come up.”

When Law fielded a question regarding a potential sequel back in June, though, he toldE! Newshe “love(s) the idea” of revisiting those characters.

source: people.com