Kate Winslet on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
January 5, 2005
Kate Winslet on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
January 4, 2005
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Here’s my not yet finished, imperfect, tv transcript.
Jay Leno: Please welcome the lovely Kate Winslet, ladies and gentlemen.
Jay Leno : Welcome back, you look lovely!
Kate: Thank you very much! So do you actually, I like the tie.
Jay: You like the tie?
Kate: It’s a good tie.
Jay: Well, thank you.
Kate: Very festive, happy new year by the way.
Jay: Well, I could give it to you, would you like to see it on your husband?
Kate: Well, uh, no [giggling and covering mouth].
Jay: Well, I’ll give it to you, or are you just being polite? You hate my tie?
Kate: No, I don’t, it’s good on you Jay. It’s very good on you.
Jay: Well, thank you, but it wouldn’t look good on your husband?
Kate: No, it wouldn’t.
Jay: Is he not a tie guy?
Kate: No, he’s not actually. He’s not a tie guy.
Jay: He’s not a tie guy?
Kate: No, not a tie guy, ‘fraid not.
Jay: Just a thought.
Jay: Well, we always love having you come here, because I know you come all the way from London and I know what it’s … Are you jet lagged now? Do you find yourself ….
Kate: Well, yeah, we are jetlagged. We’ve been in LA actually for about 4 or 5 months now, but we did go home for Christmas.
Jay: And you’re still jetlagged? [laughing]
Kate: Still jetlagged, absolutely. No we just went home for Christmas and we just got back two days ago, so the kids are completely up in the middle of the night and my daughter at like 3 in the morning is like ‘Let’s go swimming.’ And I’m like ‘No, it’s dark outside.’ And wanting breakfast in the middle of the night. It’s just the way it goes when you travel with kids.
Kate: But they’re great, they’re fantastic.
Jay: Well, tell me about the holidays in England. I’m curious.
Kate: Well, the holidays, Christmas is basically, having experienced a couple of Thanksgivings here now, the food is the same, with the turkey, and all, except we don’t do the whole pie thing.
Jay: [interrupting] No pie.
Kate: No, I’m not up to speed on this pie thing, the pumpkin pies, and the pies. Which are all very nice, but I … anyway, there we have a thing called a Christmas pudding.
Jay: No wait, what part of the pie don’t you understand, I’m curious.
Kate: Well, I don’t understand why the pie … why pie? Why … pie ?
Jay: Well, pie is a dessert you see, it would be served after the meal usually a sugary treat of some sort.
Kate:Is there a specific reason why it’ssuch a big pie deal at Thanksgiving? I’m just curious.
Jay: Well, because, um, anybody can buy a cookie anywhere, see a pie you have to bake and it’s made specially for an ocassion. Nobody just says, ‘Well it’s Thursday’, it’s not pie day but there’s a holiday, well then you usually make a pie.
Kate: I’ll tell you in England we have this Christmas pudding thing. Again, I don’t entirely understand. I can’t explain to you why.
Jay: [interrupting] Christmas pudding ?
Kate: Yes, Christmas pudding, [continuing] which is a combination of various dried fruits and nuts which are sticking in alcohol basically. And it’s made months in advance, like wine. In my house my mother makes a Christmas pudding and ever since I was a child we’d all go and stir the pudding in like, March and make a wish. Again, I don’t understand why the wish, why the whole pudding thing
Jay: [interrupting] Now wait a minute March …
Kate: [continuing] And then we put trinkets, as well, also
Jay: [interrupting] Trinkets?
Kate: …hidden, basically, choking hazzards within the pudding. Involving such things as coins, from wherever they might have come and small plastic items, in in the pudding.
Jay: And you have the nerve to say you don’t understand our pie. Is that what you just said? Is that what you just said to me? Oh, I don’t understand the pie, but you start making something in March that you will eat in December.
Kate: [giggling] Don’t even ask me. I don’t understand.
Jay: Is it like liquid fruitcake? That’s what it sounds like.
Kate: It’s like a kind of um, I think it’s sort of a Christmas colonic irrigation, kind of a thing.
Jay: Where do you take it, which end does it go in? I don’t understand.
Kate: [laughing]
Jay: Do you take it through a tube? How does that work?
Kate: No, you sort of, eat it, it’s okay.
Jay: And you swallow it? And you put coins in it.
Kate: Yes, I don’t understand this. I mean I don’t profess it’s any better than a pie, in fact a pie is indeed better than this choking hazzard pudding. [still laughing]
Jay: So you admit that the pie would be a better choice.
Kate: I do actually, I do.
Jay: Thank you very much your honor.
[audience applause]
Jay: Thank you very much.
Kate: [laughing] Oh god (under her breath).
Jay: Permission to treat this as a hostile witness your honor.
Jay: So you answered your own pie question right there.
Kate: Right. Pie over pudding.
Jay: Now, your daughter is four?
Kate: Yes, my daugher is four. My little boy Joe just turned one just before Christmas.
Jay: Now, four, that’s the classic, Santa Claus, I believe thing.
Kate: Oh, the whole thing. It was so fantastic Christmas Eve, putting the stockings up, leaving carrots out for the reindeer, which is something I’ve always done as a child. So I wanted to do the same thing with her.
Jay: I hadn’t heard that one.
Kate: Yeah, carrots of the reindeer. And a small glass of beer for Father Christmas. Just to, um, help him on his travels.
Jay: So, um, Father Christmas, so, in London, Santa drives drunk, is what you’re saying …
Kate: Yeah, pretty much.
Jay: You figure each house they’ve got another [imitating drinking] beer.
Kate: Can I just say, this is getting worse, isn’t it? We have the pudding with the alcohol, we have the drunk Father Christmas. [laughing] It’s like ….
Kate: But she totally loved the whole thing
Kate: Now I said to her, now look, if we look hard enough we might see the twinkling lights of his sleigh and, you know, the little flicker of a distant airplane light. She was so excited she started sort of spontaneously jumping and farting at the same time. She was like [immitating Mia’s excitement] ‘Mummy, [plllllbbbt] it really [plllllbbbt] is Father [plllllbbbt] Christmas. [plllllbbbt] It is really…’. It was just amazing, it was the cutest thing I’ve ever seen. [clapping her hands] It was so fantastic. She’s gonna love me when she sees this show in five years time.
Jay: That’s one of those things you have to be a member of the family to enjoy.
Kate: Yeah, you’re right.
Jay: So, is it Santa or Father Christmas over there?
Kate: It’s basically Father Christmas.
Jay: So do the kids go to a store, like Harrods, and sit on Santa’s knee, or something like that?
Kate: Yeah, they do do that, but I dont’ know, I find that a little gimicky.
Jay: Especially if he’s drunk, drinking beer.
Kate: Exactly, why would go and sit on his knee.
Jay: Now look, we’ll take a break and have more with Kate Winslet, the pie lady, in just a few minutes.
[commercial break]
Jay: Welcome back, we’re talking with Kate Winslet.
Jay: We’re talking about your family, I heard something about your dad. Now your dad has an unusual profession, has he changed …
Kate: Well, yeah he does, yeah he, my dad was an actor for all of his life, but as it is the way with many actors, particullary in England, it’s difficult to find work. So about ten years ago, he sort of thought ‘Alright, it’s drying up a bit now. And I’ve always loved singing so I’m going to form a band.’ My dad is 65. And, uh, he’s, I’m very proud to say, lead vocals in this band, called Bidgie Reef and the Gas, my dad, of course, being Bidgie.
All of the other band members are under 35. I jus think this is completely triumphant. At this age when most people are slowing down. My dad is pumping it up and they just did a tour of Ireland.
Kate: It’s very cute, it’s fantastic.
Jay: He must be really proud of you
Kate: My parents are really wonderful people and I grew up in very much an acting family. And so, I’ve always known it, so in a way, it’s sort of nothing out of the ordinary that I’m doing this.
Jay: Congratulations on the Golden Globe nomination for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Kate: Thank you.
Jay: How do you describe this film?
Kate: You do, it’s basically a story. It’s an unconventional love story. With myself and Jim Carrey playing Joel and Clementine. And he finds this out and is completely devastated.
Jay: Tell me about working with Jim Carrey.
Kate: He’s great. Well, I was so excited to get to work with him, because I never thought I’d ever get to work with someone like Jim Carrey. He’s incredibly professional, he’s actually a lot more serious at work than others would think. He’s great, it’s a wonderful cast.
Jay: I heard your first day of shooting was tough.
Kate: I think, you know, eat your food, it’s there, on your plate, getting cold. So this went on all day long with this Chinese food and this chicken and this beer. My first day. So this went on all day long it was vile, but it worked.
What do you want for lunch Kate and I was like ‘Uhhh, no.’
Jay: The director was French.
Kate: Michel Gondry is from the world of music videos, he did a lot of Bjork’s music videos. But yes he has this incredibly thick French accent and for some reason I was the only one who could understand him so I sort of became an actress/translator. He would say to me [in French accent] ‘How do you even understand what I am saying? I don’t even understand myself.’
[video clip - Kate Winslet and Elijah Wood ‘nothing makes any sense’]
Jay: Well, it’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Well, would you like to sign the bike before you go?
Kate: Yes, I’d love to sign the bike!
Jay: Kate Winslet is going to sign the bike.
[dancing to the band music as the commercials start]
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