Actress Kate Winslet bares her body and soul in her lastest movie, HOLY SMOKE.

Reporter Lauren Hunter (voice-over during clips): Betrayal, passion, surrender - they're all on screen in Jane Campion's new film Holy Smoke!.

Kate: The lost, young girl in Australia who was looking for more in her life and something different, and wanting the answers, as well, to who she was.

Lauren: Kate Winslet's Ruth finds enlightenment through an Indian guru. Harvey Keitel is P.J., the deprogrammer hired by Ruth's family to cure her.

Keitel: It's an affirmation for me, of the need we have for something holy in our lives, and the of the abuse of what we want to call holy in order to hide from ourselves.

Kate: I had to sort of surrender everything. I had to be totally unafraid, and I really had to just go headlong into it. And it was the hardest role I've ever played, it was the ultimate challenge.

Lauren: Winslet bared her soul and her body in the film.

Kate: When you come to do scenes that are very emotional and you are completely naked, it's sort of double whammy, you know, it's very, very difficult. But, you know, you have to just remember that it's there for a reason. And you have to concentrate and make sure that you forget that you're naked. Because as soon as you start thinking about that, then all your own fears and paranoias come into play.

Lauren: Winslet's first acting job was when she was five.

Kate: I was asked to play Mary in my school nativity play. And I just remember thinking, 'oh, this is it'.

Lauren: But it was her role in 'Titanic', history's biggest blockbuster, that really changed her career.

Kate: I find myself in this position now where I can choose what I do, and that's very rare. It [Titanic] will always be there in people's minds, and I'm happy to be remembered for that, if nothing else.

Lauren: Given the heat in 'Holy Smoke!', that's unlikely.

Kate: We really managed to keep a sense of humor about everything, and I think that's really the key. And it was a brilliant experience.