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Kate Winslet keeps her Oscar in her bathroom

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Updated on July 5, 2023

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Winslet, who may be nominated for an Oscar this year for her performance in Steve Jobs, told The Wall Street Journal Magazine that this isn’t completely about being modest about the statue:

Guests at Kate Winslet’s residence are encouraged to rehearse their Oscar victory speeches in her bathroom.

“The whole point is for everybody to pick it up and go, ‘I’d like to thank my son and my dad’ — and you can always tell when someone has, because they’re in there a little bit longer after they flushed,” said Winslet, who received the prize in 2009 for her role in “The Reader.” “They’ll come out looking slightly pink-cheeked. It’s hysterical.”

Winslet isn’t new to toilet acceptance speeches. When she won her Oscar, she admitted she’d been practicing since she was an 8-year-old girl clutching a shampoo bottle.

Winslet, who has stripped down for a number of film roles, also admitted that she isn’t keen on going naked at the age of 39.

Winslet has all the trappings of a movie-star lifestyle, including a husband named Ned Rocknroll, a kid named Bear, and a friendship with Leonardo DiCaprio, but she says she doesn’t live like that—and coming from Winslet, you believe her. She told the Wall Street Journal, “I just don’t feel like one, and I don’t live like one either—not the way I imagine a proper movie star living.” And on the set of Steve Jobs, playing the attentive marketing exec Joanna Hoffman to Michael Fassbender’s Jobs, she got so into the role she was managing Fassbender’s life off-camera. Fassbender explained, “She was always doing things like booking hotels for me to get away and restaurants and trying to make sure that I was looking after myself,” Fassbender said. Director Danny Boyle added, “When she was booking flights and taxicabs for Michael, it wasn’t some poor assistant. She was doing it all herself.”

The six-time Oscar nominee, who has also won an Emmy and a Grammy, spoke with the publication about divorce, stardom, and body image.

“No one really knows what has happened in my life,” she says of keeping the circumstances of her divorce hidden. “No one really knows why my first marriage didn’t last; no one knows why my second didn’t. And I’m proud of those silences.”

On being called a movie star: “I’ve always been so uncomfortable with that. I just don’t feel like one, and I don’t live like one either— not the way I imagine a proper movie star living.”

On tabloid gossip: “No one teaches you, and also no one particularly helps you. It’s a very specific thing to ask people to understand. ‘ So-and-so was mean about me in the newspaper. ‘ ‘Oh, just ignore it.’ But you can’t, because it’s not true.”

Winslet, who has three children, Mia, 14, Joe, 11, and Bear, 15 months, admitted to being self-conscious about her appearance when she was younger, but that “s***s evaporated.”

“We all focus on our bodies in our late teens and our early 20s, in a way that is just not cool or healthy,” she said. “In your 30s, you become aware of staying fit. Now I view my physical self as an instrument that I have to keep going because I’m a mother, and I have to be as healthy as I can for those three people who need me — more than I need for myself to be in a f*****g nude scene.”