Setting: Kate's sitting on a bed in a skin tight black leather jacket and a snakeskin skirt, with knee-high suede boots.

Liza Tarbuck: She's a Bafta winning, two time Oscar nominee and star of the biggest film of movie history, it is an honour to have her on this bed with me it's the lovely KATE WINSLET!

The camera goes to Kate, staring at Liza: audience claps

Liza: Now welcome to the show. Your new film Holy Smoke opens next week, which is all very soon, and its quite a dark movie.

Kate Winslet: It's…yeah its dark and funny and kinda mad, but it's a big old journey is how I describe this film. Cos' there's no one thing which it's about, its really I suppose umm a story about this young girl on a journey to find out who she is.

Liza: I loved it.

Kate: Good.

Liza: And I thought every single girl who went to see it would really know where you're coming from.

Kate: When I read the script, I really related to it, because when you're the ages between 16 to 21 you sort of wonder around going who am I and one day you feel great and the next you feel like slitting your wrists. And I just related all of that to this girl and also she's so outspoken and naughty and I think the type of girl all of us would like to be. And I had such a blast playing her cos she's so out there and wacky and stuff.

Liza: It strikes me that if anyway you were sort of interested in the mind and its process you couldn't not say yes to a film like this.

Kate: Well that's true, I mean I said yes to a film like this because of Jane Campion and it was a brilliant script. And Harvey Keitel was going to be the leading man and he is just so brilliant, and I thought I cant just not work with this man who I've admired all of my life. So umm those were my reasons really.

Liza: He's wicked and yet strangely exciting isn't he.

Kate: Yes its true, yes, yes it is true he is wicked umm and paticuarly as an actor he is very wicked, he's very driven very professional almost to the point of being scary sometimes.

Liza: Very focused eyes.

Kate: Well you think you know what is he going to do next, he's one of those really unpredictable one, suddenly he'll start improvising, but I really loved that cos it sorta pushed me to rise to the challenge and go along with the improvisation as well.

Liza: It's hard because on sort of a performance level it keeps it very fresh.

Kate: That was thing we knew we had to keep up everyday cos these two characters are so strong, and Ruth is so balsy, I just had to keep my energy up there. And Harvey and I were hilarious cos we were exercising loads and eating all these kind of clean living foods, not too lose weight, no, no, no.

Liza: Don't get me started on that subject.

Kate: No it wasn't to lose any weight at all. Just to stay energetic and clear headed and we'd just get so bored and he said to me (in an American accent) 'Kate, what's the first thing you're going to eat when we finish this movie. And I was saying, well I'm going to Said Patisserie in Soho and I'm gonna have about six latte's and ten croissants and he said I'm going to do the exactly the same. And he went to Paris on a holiday immediately after the shoot to do the exactly the same thing, to go and eat loads of croissants. What are we like, what are we like (laughing).

Liza: That shop window of the Said Patisserie, with cakes that frankly you wanna put your bum in. They are gorgeous.

Kate: (laughing) It's true, its true.

Liza: While we ruminate on that delightful fact here is a clip of Holy Smoke.

(show clip)

Liza: Let me assure you its very, very good. Now you and Harvey Keitel have some very intense and intimate scenes together.

Kate: Yes

Liza: It's your standard question and I know you must be plagued with it, but they are paticuarly intimate.

Kate: Well they are but there's not that many of them and they're sort of really powerful and weird at the same time. The fact that Harvey and I got on well made them easy to do and those things are never easy to do, and when they do come around you think ooh my bums too big, panic like mad. But they were fine and because I knew they were there because of really good reasons that helps as well.

Liza: How did Jim the husband Jim, (this is how she says it) the husband and proud dad to be. How did he react to these scenes?

Kate: Jim is actually better at it then I am, I'm the one that panics and he's one who says no it'll be fine. He very much knows that its part of my job and he's the one who reads the script and says 'now are you gonna be all right with this', its never the other way around so he totally gets it.

Liza: What a team.

Kate: Yeah, we're a team, we're a team.

Liza: God I feel really girlie with you.

Kate: (laughing)

Liza: Now one of your most striking movements is you standing in the desert spending a penny, having a wee.

Kate: In front of Harvey as well, which is really easy to do, really easy to do. I was so scared, I thought it would go away if I didn't think about it, it was a nightmare. We had a sort of rig, which was attached, at the back of my hair. So not only was I doing this difficult scene I had this thing pulling at the back of my hair, and there was a bag of saline fluid dyed yellow and a tube wedged in a certain place. And it was so funny, it was so funny this rig that I had trouble actually doing it cos it made me laugh so much. It was terrible and a very difficult scene to do.

Liza: Great scene though, cos it makes you realise how let go she is.

Kate: When I read that scene for the first time I was so shocked and also I thought how brilliant, it's just a huge turning point for her and makes you realise how vulnerable she is. And that's why she urinates for no other reason then that. I loved the fact that that scene was there as hard as it was to do.

Liza: Now I'd like to carry on but we have to take a break at the moment but we'll be back.

Kate: It's because I've been going on just like my Gran tells me (laughing).

Liza: If only that were true, you and me, we could get a series out of this interview, for now the lovely KATE WINSLET.

(Now they've come back and are discussing baby names.)

(another Holy Smoke clip)

Liza: And that was of course another clip from Holy Smoke and I'm sitting here with the star Kate Winslet. Now you of course are gonna have a baby this year, in case any of you have been asleep for months. It's a fabulous year for babies. Now cunningly we've been trying to find out if you have thought of names for the baby yet.

Kate: Funnily enough not. Not yet, still very early days but I'm sure we will be wracking our brains soon.

Liza: Are you healthy with this baby?

Kate: Very, though I was a bit sick, a bit sick, sort of three or four weeks ago. But that seems to have past now. I did have a funny craving I'll let you all in on. This really was a craving, not something I'd normally have, and this'll be all over the blimmen papers. Fizzy cola bottles.

Liza: Ooh I know them.

Kate: I can't tell you (laugh) I HAD TO HAVE THEM, I HAD TO HAVE THEM.

Liza: That's very acidic.

Kate: Then I'd make myself sick, cos I'd eaten so many of them, because they were so fizzy, that's gone now thank goodness. That was the only sort of weird one and pickled onions were the other and Ribena and tomatoes. That's probably potassium.

Liza: There all very acidic, if only we could do acupuncture and all mystic stuff to see what's going on.

Kate: You very mystic you are, very mystic.

Liza: I am, and Kate Winslet told me so, so there. Now we all know the brilliant news, and we've devised this sensational little game for you, that we'd thought we'd call, Christen with Mother. On the bottom of this board there are fourteen names, seven boys, seven girls. Most of them are people you've worked with, and we've thrown a couple of red herrings in there that you might fancy.

Kate: Oh yes. Dear me.

Liza: We want you to rank each set from one to five, boy and girl cos we don't know what your having yet. And depending how likely you are to choose the name for your baby, it's not hard really.

Kate: Well seeing as its you, we'll start with Liza. Come on then...

Liza: Would you say L-e-e-z-a or Liza?

Kate: Don't know really.

Liza: Cos when I was at drama school, I quite fancied being called Liza (like Liza Minelli).

Kate: But do people say L-e-e-z-a or Lisa.

Liza: Lisa, I can't bear it.

Kate: Is your name spelt like that (Liza)?

Liza: Yeah it is.

Kate: Well that would annoy me you see.

Liza: Well it does annoy me.

Kate: Does it?

Liza: And I feel really petty.

Kate: Well now you all know L-e-e-z-a.

Liza: They know anyway, ah you're so kind. Where are we now, boys.

Kate: Boy, boy, boy, boy, boy.

Liza: Well we've got Jim. I'm partial to Jim cos my brothers named Jim and my dad is as well...

Kate: I'm partial to Jim obviously.

Liza: Of course you are.

Kate: But I don't know about that I think it would be a bit naff if we called him after Jim, so lets go with Johnny.

Liza: Ah, friend of the show.

Kate: Next we'll go for Joaquin, cos after working with him last year on Quills, watch this space, it was shortened to Joaq, which I thought was quite cool.

Liza: Joaq, well it sounds like seventies guitar noises.

Kate: Or a thing for cooking Chinese food in. Then I think we'll go for Emma next cos it can get shortened to Em, which I like. She's always Em not Emma.

Liza: Oh yeah Emma Thompson, the connection there, you're a big fan aren't you.

Kate: Well she's my mate isn't she.

Liza: Yeah I like her.

Kate: So do I, and she's got a beautiful baby too.

Liza: Firm but fair I always thought she is.

Kate: Now look Therese can go there and be shortened to Terri, which is quite nice.

Liza: Terri.

Kate: Yeah well you got to think about these things. And you also have to think about how are he or she is going to think about their name when he or she is fifteen. So you have to think about these things.

Liza: Therese is good, I know a lovely Therese and she's German.

Kate: Do you know. I think we'll go for Harvey next.

Liza: Harvey is the name of Johnny's dog.

Kate: OH DEAR. (Moves it to the bottom) Joking. I think we'll go for that. I use to secretly call Harvey Keitel, Harvester actually.

Liza: Harvester Combine (laughs)

Kate: (laughing) No, no. One day he actually heard me call him that and he turned round and said what did you call me, it was all very funny.

Liza: I think its something about having a V in your name, something about having the end of the alphabet in your name.

Kate: V for victory or something. Umm then will go for Judy, which can be shortened to Jude, which is quite nice, and it can be Jude for a boy or girl.

Liza: I don't like Judith

Kate: Judith

Liza: Judith, actually I don't mind the Th.

Kate: Just be called Th. Then I think we will go for Leo because I do like the Leo bit.

Liza: I only hear nice things about him.

Kate: He's gorgeous, he's great he's fantastic. Then I think we'll go for...

Liza: Pam, Pam I like Pam but I think is a bit plain. Hello I'm Pam, it's like a jug.

Kate: It's a bit dull. I don't know is it?

Liza: Anias is nice, Noel Gallagher's baby. What about that?

Kate: I don't know, I don't think you can call your baby some other celebrity's baby's name can you? So I think it's gonna have to be Pam. Then I think we'll go for.

Liza: Kenneth, my uncles called Kenneth. (Laughs at Kate's move)

Kate: (reaches for Cameron) Sorry Ken, only because it can be shortened to Cam.

Liza: Cammy or Cam?

Kate: Cam, Cameron is nice as a last name, Cam, Cam, cute Cam. There you go.

Liza: You heard it here first these are the names that Kate and Jim are gonna name their baby. Of course I have pages and pages of questions to ask you but unfortunately we've run out of time. It has been a pleasure meeting you.

Kate: It's been a pleasure meeting you.

Liza: Well ladies and gentleman this has been the lovely Kate Winslet.

(Audience applauds)

Source: Big Breakfast