Rosie O'Donnell talks with Kate Winslet about her film Iris, baby daughter Mia, and attending the Golden Globes on the Rosie O'Donnell Show.

Rosie: Excellente. Okay we've got a great show. Kate Winslet is here.

[ One person screams loudest. Cheers and applause. ]

John: Yes. The loudest fan.

Rosie: And a Kate Winslet stalker is in the audience.

[ Laughter ]

John: Right there.

Rosie: I don't think that's ever happened before when I've announced a guest. Yeah!

John: It was huge.

Rosie: All right. Kate Winslet's here. Shhh. And Laura Linney, as well and Laura Prepon.

[ Cheers and applause ]

Rosie: From That '70's Show. Prepon, prepon. Grey poupon.

John: That's it.

Rosie: We'll figure out how to say her name. We're also going to play a game with the audience and you're going to get to win something. So don't go away. It's a great show. Up next Kate Winslet.

[ Commercial Break ]

Rosie: Our first guest is a two-time Oscar nominee for her work in Titanic and Sense and Sensibility. She's currently earning high prize for her role in the new film Iris. She's really wonderful. It opens all over the place on February 15th. Please welcome back to the program Kate Winslet.

[ Cheers and applause ]

Rosie: Hi, Kate.

Kate Winslet: She's broken her toe!

Rosie: Can you believe it?! I'm such a klutz?

Kate: You fell down the stairs.

Rosie: I fell down six stairs in my house. I bought a townhouse that is seven stories and it has 112 steps.

Kate: Oh, gosh.

Rosie: And when I bought it I thought how great is this.

Kate: Exercise.

Rosie: I'll lose so much weight.

Kate: Absolutely.

Rosie: You know what I do? Parker, go get mommy a diet coke. I never walk.

Kate: Oh, no.

Rosie: Last night I went head first.

Kate: You poor thing.

Rosie: I'm all right. How are you?

Kate: I'm very well, thank you.

Rosie: Great to see you. You're so good in this movie.

Kate: Thank you.

Rosie: First, how's the baby?

Kate: [beaming] She's wonderful. She is wonderful.

Rosie: Yes?

Kate: We're big on animal noises at the moment. You say 'Mia, what does a lion do?' ' Raah!'.

[ audience awws]

Kate: She's amazing.

Rosie: How old is she now?

Kate: 15 months.

Rosie: That's very good.

Kate: Yes, she's running around all over the place and dancing. She's a big dancer. She loves Destiny's Child.

Rosie: She does?

Kate: She loves Destiny's Child. Absolutely.

Rosie: Any particular song?

Kate: All of them. She loves it.

Rosie: My 6-year-old son loves Biance. He tells me when he gets big he's going to marry her. I said I'm going to let her know. Because I think she'll wait around for you.

Kate: That's very cute.

Rosie: Has it changed your life? I know it's trite to say and hard to put into words.

Kate: It does. Before becoming a parent you just simply can't imagine that there's a whole other area of emotions that you just don't know about.

Rosie: Right.

Kate: And until you are a parent, you just can't anticipate what that's going to feel like. And it's just amazing every day. Every day is a surprise. There's something new every day. And it's fun. And you know, she's just amazing. She's, you know --

Rosie: Do you think you'll have many or you don't know yet?

Kate: Oh, I don't know. I'll have to play it by ear.

Rosie: Are you from a big family?

Kate: I am one of four, my mom one of six. I come from a long line of breeders.

Rosie: Really?

Kate: Yes, i do.

Rosie: Any other actors in the family?

Kate: Oh, they're all actors. Just about everybody. My father, my older sister. My younger sister who also has a little baby who's two months younger than Mia. That's great. They play together. He's a little boy. And it's very, very sweet.

Rosie: They get to grow up together.

Kate: It's lovely. She pushes him over. She's really like 'George'. His name's george. George, and she pushes him over.

Rosie: No kidding?

Kate: It's a sign of affection.

Rosie: My son is over 2 and he doesn't really speak. But he -- he does -- he's a great mimer.

Kate: Oh, really?

Rosie: Yes. Because we have a little nursery here. Caroline, Christina's daughter she scratches. And every time I go and he tells on her. Mama -- [portrays her son miming someone having scratched him ]

Kate: Oh, really?

Rosie: Yeah. It's like a little pantomime scene.

Kate: Oh, how sweet.

Rosie: It's the greatest thing in the world.

Kate: It is.

Rosie: When you do a movie you take her, obviously?

Kate: Yes. I did Iris last year. And a movie at the end of the year The Life of David Gale with Laura Linney.

Rosie: Who's here today!

Kate: I love her. So I was working a lot. But in actual fact in terms of weeks I only did sort of eleven weeks of work in total last year. So it was really great. And she was just there with me. And it was absolutely fantastic.

Rosie: Now, in Iris you play the young Judi Dench.

Kate: I do. Frightening.

Rosie: No, not at all.

Kate: No, frightening.

Rosie: For you?

Kate: Yes.

Rosie: How come?

Kate: Well apart from the fact that the young Iris Murdoch, well Iris Murdoch was an intellectual. She was an incredibly intelligent woman. You ask me to play an intellectual and I just go, I can't do it. I'm not clever enough.

Rosie: Really? That's what i would do.

Kate: I was petrified. When you know that you have to much up to Judi Dench. Oh, it's horrifying.

Rosie: She was here. And I always get nervous when she's here because it's Dame Judi Dench.

Kate: People think she's royalty here. It's very funny.

Rosie: She's so -- she's like one of the greatest living actresses.

Kate: Absolutely. She's incredible.

Rosie: And she goes [impersonating Judi's accent] 'I was sort of short and round and Kate is tall and beautiful. I don't know why we're paired together.'

Kate: I know. Well I did sort of think, god how are we going to make this work? Because obviously we are nothing alike. Where as Jim Broadbent who plays the older John Bayley and Hugh Donovan look like they might be related. We always have that pressure. To be honest I think the hair and makeup team and the costume designers were so good they made us look very similar.

Rosie: It tolally worked. I love the movie. Iris Murdoch was a woman who was a timeous writer in England and she got Alzheimer's disease and she was in love with her husband who took care of her and she had a very wild, adventerous life.

Kate: She was a strong woman. A strong, feisty woman. Very kind of modern for her time. Very outspoken and sort of said what she believed in. But it's really, I mean I always describe it as a true love story because it's so much about this incredible relationship and friendship and understanding that they had. And obviously he did nurse her through her last days. So it's very, very touching.

Rosie: We have a clip. Do we have a clip?

Kate: I think we do.

Rosie: I hope we do. Do you know which clip it is?

Kate: No, i don't.

Rosie: Neither do I. It's a good movie. I loved it. Opens February 15th.

[Iris Clip.]

John: I know you must feel that i don't belong in your world.

Iris The people in my past, of my heart, and not. There was a friend who was a student with me. He was not the first person i went to bed with. That was Harry then there was Roger, who wanted to marry me. And Oscar who said he couldn't live without me. And Tom, who far too clearly could.

John: Is that all? What about the friends in your other world?

Iris You know more about me than anyone on earth. You are my world.

Rosie: It's really a beautiful movie.

[ Cheers and applause ]

Rosie: You should be very proud of it.

Kate: I have to say i am really proud of this film. I really do love it. I've seen -- I mean it's rare for me to see a movie that I'm in more than once, maybe twice on the big screen. I've seen Iris four times.

Rosie: No kidding?

Kate: And I just love -- I think because it is a true story. There's nothing predictable about it. It's not a formulaic script. It's simply about them. And so every time I see it, it sort of gives you something new. And makes me cry in different places. Makes me laugh in different places. You know, it's full of a lot of joy, as women, this story.

Rosie: Yeah. It really is a beautiful, beautiful story. We're going to take a break, come back with Kate Winslet right after this. Don't go away.

Rosie: Really crazy. Back with Kate Winslet. How were the Golden Globes?

Kate: They were fun.

Rosie: Were they?

Kate: It's such a fun event. It's always wonderful to be nominated. When you're nominated with a category of women like Maggie Smith and Helen Mirren. You're just so honored to be there. You just have to treat it all like a big party and it's like playing dress up, really.

Rosie: Do you get nervous? Do you worry?

Kate: I get nervous usually the morning of the day. Then I go into this strange kind of relaxed calm this is all going to be fun. And then I get there and then I get nervous.

Rosie: You do?

Kate: I don't think you can help it really.

Rosie: Is it true that everybody at the Golden Globes is getting a little sauced at the table?

Kate: Well, it depends on whether you have to present or not.

Rosie: Right.

Kate: So the category I was nominated in Best Supporting Actress was up first so I thought that would be great so I could relax and enjoy a drink.

Rosie: Right.

Kate: But then no because I was presenting the film clip of The Lord of the Rings which came right at the end of the show. I sat there happily drinking water.

Rosie: But you would have been allowed to have wine?

Kate: You can. They have wine on the tables and there's food and things. It's relatively informal, actually. Whereas the Academy Awards is sort of a very long ceremony and you're all tied to your seats. And it's very difficult to find the bathroom. They're fun events. They really are.

Rosie: It was fun to watch it at home and see when they go to commercial every single person pick up their cell phone.

Kate: Really?

Rosie: I knew some people there so I'm going through my book, who has their phone. I'm going to try to call her. But I couldn't get through.

Kate: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Rosie: My agent was sitting with Jennifer Connelly.

Kate: Oh, right.

Rosie: And after she won she gets on the phone. I'm like that's so tacky. But I called her but I couldn't get in. The Academy Awards, was that overwhelming for you? I mean as an actress?

Kate: I think the first time I went, I was only 19. So it was very overwhelming. Because I just simply could not believe that I was there. I was like, look, I'm just Roger and Sally's daughter. This isn't right. My feet are too big and I look wrong. And you know. It's very, very bizarre. And then you kind of adjust to it a little bit and get used to it. And you really do enjoy it. I mean thousands and thousands, millions of people across the world watch these events. And I'm sure sit there wishing that they could be there and wondering what it's like. You just have to sort of remember that and remember how lucky you are to be there and just really enjoy it.

Rosie: Yeah. Do you know that you were nude again in Iris

Kate: [playing innocent] Was I?

Rosie: You were. I've seen you nudie a lot!

Kate: Oh, I'm sorry.

Rosie: Well, do you get embarrassed?

Kate: Of course!

Rosie: Oh, you do?

Kate: Oh, I hate doing nudity.

Rosie: But you seem so freely nude.

Kate: I know it's acting, i think. I hope.

Rosie: If I was nude I'd be like this, [covering herself with hands] whoo!

Kate: It is really nerve-racking. You know. I never enjoy it. I don't think as an actor you can enjoy it. But, you know, sometimes it's right for the story. And in Iris one of the things that John Bayley and Iris Murdoch absolutely loved to do was to swim and to just be in the water. They really did it all the time. And when they were younger they went skinny dipping. So the movie opens with all this lovely skinny dipping. But it was fun and I was in a heated tank of water. So I was very happy.

Rosie: Better than Titanic.

Kate: Yes. Which was very cold.

Rosie: Well you're delightful. The movie is great. I wish you all the success. I think you're going to get an Academy Award nomination.

Kate: Oh. No, no. [covering ears]

Rosie: I don't want to scare you, there's a strange stalker woman here. We have security. I think you need to meet her or else she's going to be at your house in two weeks. Come down. Walk slowly. We're going to break. We'll see you later. There's the crazy stalker woman. Kate Winslet. Go see Iris.

Kate: Awww, that's sweet.

[One particular guest of the show approaches Kate who smiles in anticipation and then says hello to her as the commercial break begins.]

[As you all know Laura Linney just filmed The Life of David Gale with Kate and Rosie asked her about her co-star.]

Rosie: How was it working with Kate Winslet?

Laura Linney: Kate! I adore We had our little swat gobble backstage. The two of us just would really go at it. She's just, there's something about Kate that I love. She's the only person I've ever met who has pure self-esteem. In the most refreshing way. She's just -- and she's invigorating to be around. I just love her.

Rosie: And she really got very famous very fast. That's not easy for anyone.

Laura: No. And she's really --

Rosie: Handles it great.

Laura: She's a fantastic person.

Rosie: When does that movie come out?

Laura: [Thinking] Sept... I believe probably the end of next year.

Rosie: The end of next year?

Laura: Or the end of this year it would be.

Rosie: The Mothman Prophecies opens tomorrow all over the country. And tomorrow Richard Gere will be here.

Source: Transcription and captures by Discover Kate.