Kate Winslet Has ‘Never Forgotten’ This Decades-Old Advice fromSense & SensibilityCostar Emma Thompson

Mar. 15, 2025

Kate Winslet (left) and Emma Thompson (right).Photo:Mike Marsland/WireImage, Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis via GettyWise wordsEmma Thompsononce shared withKate Winslethave stayed with herSense & Sensibilitycostar through the years.Winslet, now 48, was relatively new to show business when she acted alongside established star Thompson, now 65, who wrote the screenplay and costarred in the 1995 adaptation of the Jane Austen novel. The two played sisters, and developed a bond.“She has a groundedness and a clarity of perception about the industry as a whole,” Winslet said during a conversation with moderator Josh Horowitz at The 92nd Street YCenter for Culture & Arts in New York City on Sept. 23. “She was quite sort of protective of me.”Kate Winslet at her The 92nd Street Y talk in N.Y.C. on Sept. 23, 2024.Michael Priest PhotographyA few years later, when the 1998 filmTitanicsent Winslet into the stratosphere of fame, Thompson was concerned, according to Winslet.“I think she was actually just [a] bit worried like — you know, not, ‘is Kate gonna go off the rails?’ ’cause clearly that wasn’t in my personality — but just that it [can] be very overwhelming and what was I gonna do?”Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet in ‘Sense and Sensibility.'.Columbia/Kobal/Shutterstock“She did say to me… just remember, it’s equally as important not to work as it’s to work. And I have never forgotten that,” continued Winslet. “I knew that I didn’t want this to run out. I wanted to always be doing this job. And I thought, God, if I do it, then maybe people would get sick of me and argue, ‘Well, not her anymore, and let’s move on to somebody else,’” Winslet said of potential overexposure.“I do remember me taking it very seriously, what Emma had said and acting on it. And still acting on it actually,” she continued.Horowitz surprised Winslet — who was at the 92NY to screen her new filmLee, about trailblazing World War II photographer Lee Miller — with a taped video fromThompson and her husband Greg Wise, who also starred with them inSense & Sensibility.Kate Winslet and Emma Thompson in 1996.Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty“Your old friend Tommo here,” Thompson said in the message. “I wanted to remind you of the moment when you said to me, ‘I think you should talk to that guy’ and I said ‘No… He won’t be interested, he won’t be interested.’ And you said, ‘I  think you’re wrong.’”Wise, now 58, then appeared in the frame and quipped, “Thirty years ago, yeah, more than half of my life. Nearly half.”Thompson then revealed that Wise is working with Winslet’s daughter,Mia Threapleton, 23, on an upcoming project, before closing out the video saying, “We love you!”Kate Winslet and Emma Thompson in 1996.Dave Benett/GettyWinsletpreviously praised Thompson in a 2020 essay. “The thing about Emma is that she’s a wonderful actress, but as a person, she is just extraordinary, and she’s absolutely herself, you know, there’s none of this film star glitzy stuff,” she wrote, recalling their time onSense & Sensibility.“She’s very much part of the team and somehow just that presence that she had did make everybody feel so relaxed and so comfortable. Em and I did become very much like sisters and, in fact, still now we really are.”Leeis in theaters Friday, Sept. 27.

Kate Winslet (left) and Emma Thompson (right).Photo:Mike Marsland/WireImage, Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis via Getty

Mike Marsland/WireImage, Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis via Getty

Wise wordsEmma Thompsononce shared withKate Winslethave stayed with herSense & Sensibilitycostar through the years.Winslet, now 48, was relatively new to show business when she acted alongside established star Thompson, now 65, who wrote the screenplay and costarred in the 1995 adaptation of the Jane Austen novel. The two played sisters, and developed a bond.“She has a groundedness and a clarity of perception about the industry as a whole,” Winslet said during a conversation with moderator Josh Horowitz at The 92nd Street YCenter for Culture & Arts in New York City on Sept. 23. “She was quite sort of protective of me.”Kate Winslet at her The 92nd Street Y talk in N.Y.C. on Sept. 23, 2024.Michael Priest PhotographyA few years later, when the 1998 filmTitanicsent Winslet into the stratosphere of fame, Thompson was concerned, according to Winslet.“I think she was actually just [a] bit worried like — you know, not, ‘is Kate gonna go off the rails?’ ’cause clearly that wasn’t in my personality — but just that it [can] be very overwhelming and what was I gonna do?”Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet in ‘Sense and Sensibility.'.Columbia/Kobal/Shutterstock“She did say to me… just remember, it’s equally as important not to work as it’s to work. And I have never forgotten that,” continued Winslet. “I knew that I didn’t want this to run out. I wanted to always be doing this job. And I thought, God, if I do it, then maybe people would get sick of me and argue, ‘Well, not her anymore, and let’s move on to somebody else,’” Winslet said of potential overexposure.“I do remember me taking it very seriously, what Emma had said and acting on it. And still acting on it actually,” she continued.Horowitz surprised Winslet — who was at the 92NY to screen her new filmLee, about trailblazing World War II photographer Lee Miller — with a taped video fromThompson and her husband Greg Wise, who also starred with them inSense & Sensibility.Kate Winslet and Emma Thompson in 1996.Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty“Your old friend Tommo here,” Thompson said in the message. “I wanted to remind you of the moment when you said to me, ‘I think you should talk to that guy’ and I said ‘No… He won’t be interested, he won’t be interested.’ And you said, ‘I  think you’re wrong.’”Wise, now 58, then appeared in the frame and quipped, “Thirty years ago, yeah, more than half of my life. Nearly half.”Thompson then revealed that Wise is working with Winslet’s daughter,Mia Threapleton, 23, on an upcoming project, before closing out the video saying, “We love you!”Kate Winslet and Emma Thompson in 1996.Dave Benett/GettyWinsletpreviously praised Thompson in a 2020 essay. “The thing about Emma is that she’s a wonderful actress, but as a person, she is just extraordinary, and she’s absolutely herself, you know, there’s none of this film star glitzy stuff,” she wrote, recalling their time onSense & Sensibility.“She’s very much part of the team and somehow just that presence that she had did make everybody feel so relaxed and so comfortable. Em and I did become very much like sisters and, in fact, still now we really are.”Leeis in theaters Friday, Sept. 27.

Wise wordsEmma Thompsononce shared withKate Winslethave stayed with herSense & Sensibilitycostar through the years.

Winslet, now 48, was relatively new to show business when she acted alongside established star Thompson, now 65, who wrote the screenplay and costarred in the 1995 adaptation of the Jane Austen novel. The two played sisters, and developed a bond.

“She has a groundedness and a clarity of perception about the industry as a whole,” Winslet said during a conversation with moderator Josh Horowitz at The 92nd Street YCenter for Culture & Arts in New York City on Sept. 23. “She was quite sort of protective of me.”

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

Michael Priest Photography

A few years later, when the 1998 filmTitanicsent Winslet into the stratosphere of fame, Thompson was concerned, according to Winslet.

“I think she was actually just [a] bit worried like — you know, not, ‘is Kate gonna go off the rails?’ ’cause clearly that wasn’t in my personality — but just that it [can] be very overwhelming and what was I gonna do?”

Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet in ‘Sense and Sensibility.'.Columbia/Kobal/Shutterstock

Columbia/Kobal/Shutterstock

“She did say to me… just remember, it’s equally as important not to work as it’s to work. And I have never forgotten that,” continued Winslet. “I knew that I didn’t want this to run out. I wanted to always be doing this job. And I thought, God, if I do it, then maybe people would get sick of me and argue, ‘Well, not her anymore, and let’s move on to somebody else,’” Winslet said of potential overexposure.

“I do remember me taking it very seriously, what Emma had said and acting on it. And still acting on it actually,” she continued.

Horowitz surprised Winslet — who was at the 92NY to screen her new filmLee, about trailblazing World War II photographer Lee Miller — with a taped video fromThompson and her husband Greg Wise, who also starred with them inSense & Sensibility.

Kate Winslet and Emma Thompson in 1996.Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty

Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty

“Your old friend Tommo here,” Thompson said in the message. “I wanted to remind you of the moment when you said to me, ‘I think you should talk to that guy’ and I said ‘No… He won’t be interested, he won’t be interested.’ And you said, ‘I  think you’re wrong.’”

Wise, now 58, then appeared in the frame and quipped, “Thirty years ago, yeah, more than half of my life. Nearly half.”

Thompson then revealed that Wise is working with Winslet’s daughter,Mia Threapleton, 23, on an upcoming project, before closing out the video saying, “We love you!”

Kate Winslet and Emma Thompson in 1996.Dave Benett/Getty

Dave Benett/Getty

Winsletpreviously praised Thompson in a 2020 essay. “The thing about Emma is that she’s a wonderful actress, but as a person, she is just extraordinary, and she’s absolutely herself, you know, there’s none of this film star glitzy stuff,” she wrote, recalling their time onSense & Sensibility.

“She’s very much part of the team and somehow just that presence that she had did make everybody feel so relaxed and so comfortable. Em and I did become very much like sisters and, in fact, still now we really are.”

Leeis in theaters Friday, Sept. 27.

source: people.com