Kate Winslet nonetheless carries a particular present from Jack Black to today!
The Lee actress, 48, was handled to a video message from her The Holiday costar on Monday, Sept. 23, throughout a complicated screening of her new movie in New York Metropolis.
After jokingly asking Winslet, “When’s Vacation 2 [happening]?”, Black, 55, mentioned in his video, “You are one of the best. The way you doing? Anyway, I miss you. Love you.”
Laughing, Winslet mentioned in the course of the screening dialog with Happy Sad Confused‘s Josh Horowitz that Black “began my nickname.”
“I even have a bit of little bit of a nickname on set,” she continued. “So my nickname is Okay Dub, and Jack began that actually. Now on set, most individuals say Okay Dub. Or on Lee, shall they ask for Kate? As a result of there was two of us.”
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In The Vacation, heartbroken movie-trailer producer Amanda (Cameron Diaz) presents up her Los Angeles mansion in an effort to get away for the vacations, earlier than equally downtrodden columnist Iris (Winslet) solutions, swapping her English nation cottage.
Throughout their visits, Amanda falls for Iris’ widower brother Graham (Jude Law), a ebook editor, whereas Iris hits it off with movie composer Miles (Black), a buddy of Amanda’s ex, Ethan (Edward Burns).
Throughout a February look on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Winslet revealed that extra folks acknowledge her for her position within the 2006 rom-com than 1997’s Titanic, “particularly” in the course of the yuletide season.
“And truly what’s so pretty is that moms and daughters come as much as me within the grocery retailer they usually say, ‘Oh Kate, we just love The Holiday, it is our little ritual at Christmas,’ ” the Oscar winner instructed host Jimmy Fallon.
“They’ve issues that they eat yearly, they sit down, it’s a practice and I simply love that,” Winslet added. “That’s one thing I by no means would have anticipated truly, the kind of mother-daughter connection round a movie like that. It’s so good. It’s pretty.”
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Regardless of buzz a couple of second movie, Nancy Meyers, who directed the unique movie, denied that a sequel was in the works in December 2022, a lot to the dismay of The Vacation followers in all places.
Winslet additionally shut down the rumor to PEOPLE, saying, “I learn one thing about that, nevertheless it’s the primary I’ve heard of it.”
“I promise you, not an agent or a consultant or anybody from the primary one round has had any dialog with me about that,” she added. “Hand on coronary heart, that is by no means come up.”
However again in June, Legislation, 51, instructed E! News that he “love(s) the idea” of a potential follow-up. And whereas he famous that followers would “must ask” Meyers, 74, about getting the film made, in relation to his personal involvement, he added, “Why not?”
“I feel Graham nonetheless has cardigans and glasses, and reads,” Legislation joked of the place his character can be at this time. “He is most likely fearful sick in regards to the ladies, proper? [His] daughters will likely be 28, 29.”