Below are some interesting and/or funny facts regarding Kate's movies.
Kate was working at a deli when she got a phone call telling her she got the role in "Heavenly Creatures"
Kate has a wonderful voice and sings in 6 of her movies: Heavenly Creatures, Sense and Sensibility, Titanic, A Christmas Carol, Iris, Romance and Cigarettes
Kate wears wigs in the following movies: Heavenly Creatures (short hair), Quills, Iris, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Romance and Cigarettes
Kate found out that she got the role in "Titanic" when playing the straightjacket scene in "Hamlet"
Kate met her first husband Jim Threapleton on the set of "Hideous Kinky"
Kate had a short relationship with her co-star Rufus Sewell during the shooting of "Hamlet"
Kate fainted while shooting the bathtub scene in "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and found out she is pregnant (with her 2nd child Joe)
Kate refused movies like "Shakespeare in Love" and "Anna and the King" after "Titanic" in order to be able to play in independent movies
While rehearsing the sex scenes for "Holy Smoke", director Jane Campion took the part of Harvey Keitel :)
Kate said kissing Leonardo DiCaprio in "Titanic" was like kissing her own brother
Kate was originally supposed to audition for Lucy Steele in "Sense & Sensibility"
Kate kept all her wigs and clothes from "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"
Kate was pregnant with her first child Mia while shooting "Enigma", but her bump needed to be pad out for the final scene, because it wasn´t big enough :)
Kate and Leo emptied a bucket of water over director James Cameron on the last day of shooting "Titanic"
Kate had to put her feet under "Sense & Sensibility" co-star Greg Wise´s armpits to warm her up after she fainted on a cold and rainy day of shooting
Every time Kate was on her period during the 9 month of shooting "Titanic", she told the crew: "Alright, guys, we can shoot 'Jaws' now"
Kate was really drunk during the drunk scene in "Holy Smoke"
Taken from The Official Kate Winslet Movies Fanlisting : http://passion.deadtime.net/welcome.htm
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