December 4, 2024

The two women have remained friends since costarring in the 1995 period drama

Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet in 'Sense and Sensibility.'
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 film Lee, about trailblazing World War II photographer Lee Miller — with a taped video from Thompson and her husband Greg Wise, who also starred with them in Sense & Sensibility.

Kate Winslet and Emma Thompson in 1996.
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.
Kate Winslet and Emma Thompson in 1996.DAVE BENETT/GETTY

Winslet previously 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 on Sense & 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.”

Lee is in theaters Friday, Sept. 27.

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