Kate Winslet recalls 'awful' fame shock after 'Titanic' success

Kate Winslet opened up about the proud moment when fans recognised her for her iconic movie The Holiday.

In a recent chat on the How To Fail With Elizabeth Day podcast, the 50-year-old actress opened up about the joy she feels when her Christmas movie became an inspiration for the festival traditions and depiction of mother-daughter love.

"What's so lovely is that mothers and daughters come up to me in the grocery store and they say, 'Oh, Kate, we just love The Holiday, it's our little ritual at Christmas," she said.

"They have things that they eat every year. They sit down to watch it. It's a tradition and I just love that," she continued.

Kate also revealed that fans also remember her as a guest appearance she made on the Ricky Gervais TV series Extras in 2005.

Kate rose to fame at the age of 22 with her hit movie Titanic, in which she starred alongside Leonardo DiCaprio.

However, after gaining stardom with her hit movie, Kate revealed that she found it "absolutely awful."

"It was a really rough introduction to what it was like to be famous, and it put the fear of God in me, she said elsewhere in the podcast. "I remember thinking, 'I do not want to be famous. This is terrible. This is absolutely awful."

"After Titanic, I was actively making choices to do the smallest possible work things I could find, while I was still learning who I was, learning how to act. I needed the space to just figure out who I was as a performer and not to feel pressured into saying yes to things just because there might have been a large salary attached to it," she added.