Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

My thanks is always for clicking and listening along. I am very

excited to bring in my conversation today with a woman who really needs no

introduction. Oscar winner Kate Winslet. She's currently starring in the HBO Max series The Regime

in which she plays a fictional dictator in a vaguely European nation who's kind of losing her grip on power but also on

reality and finding ways to bring it back. It has huge echoes of what's

happening around the world including by the way in America right now it's a comedy

but with certainly a dramatic twist to it she's amazing in it so she'll talk about

that role how she found the accent that you can't quite put your finger on and why she thought that was important.

We'll also talk about her long road to get to this part, including, obviously, Titanic in

1997. She was 22 years old when Titecanec came out, turned her life upside down.

Obviously she co-starred with Leonardo DiCaprio with what at the time was the biggest movie in the history of Hollywood and also how she

sort of down shifted after that. She didn't like the life of a celebrity. She didn't

like the judgment she received suddenly about her looks and the movie itself and she was

disoriented you know she said she went overnight from living in a little two-bedroom

flat to walking outside and almost having seizures because of all the flash bulbs of

photographers that were chasing her. So we get into all of that her amazing career.

She's done so much, such great choices, won the Academy Award in 2009 for the Reader. She's been

nominated for seven Oscars won five Baftas, five Golden Globes, for SAG Awards to

Emmys. Some of those awards came from Mayor of East Town. My goodness was she

amazing and that in nailing a very specific Philadelphia area accent as well

there. I should point out as we

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