Kate Winslet just learned what Ozempic is: ‘Eat more things!’
Kate Winslet isn’t onboard the Ozempic weight loss trend.
In an interview with the New York Times Magazine published on Sunday, the “Titanic” star, 48, said, “I actually don’t know what Ozempic is. All I know is that it’s some pill that people are taking or something like that.”
After she learned that patients inject themselves with the Type 2 diabetes medication to suppress their appetites, Winslet said, “Oh, my God. This sounds terrible. Let’s eat some more things!”
Winslet is no stranger to weight loss conversations. During a December 2022 interview on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast, she recalled the media calling her “fat” during the height of the “Titanic” film mania — and, during the debate about whether both Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Rose (Winslet) could fit on that door.
Winslet said that the comments she heard in the media at the time the movie came out in 1997 were “bullying” and “borderline abusive.”
The hit movie ended with a tearjerker finale that had Rose surviving on top of the floating door, while her lover Jack froze to death in the water. Afterward, some takes that Winslet heard about why they couldn’t both fit on that door were, “Apparently, I was too fat. Isn’t it awful? Why were they so mean to me? They were so mean. I wasn’t even f – – king fat.”
She said she had some regrets about how she responded to that.
“If I could turn back the clock, I would have used my voice in a completely different way . . . I would have responded, ‘Don’t you dare treat me like this. I’m a young woman, my body is changing, I’m figuring it out, I’m deeply insecure, I’m terrified, don’t make this any harder than it already is.’ That’s bullying, you know, and actually borderline abusive, I would say.”
In December 2022, the Oscar-winning actress also told the Sunday Times that there were several times at the start of her career when her agent would get calls from producers asking about her weight.
“When I was younger my agent would get calls saying, ‘How’s her weight?’” Winslet recalled.
Winslet is currently starring in the HBO miniseries “The Regime” (Sundays at 9 p.m.), playing a volatile and paranoid authoritarian leader of a fictional European country.
During a press conference that The Post attended, Winslet said, “We did have a couple of moments when things would happen that were so funny that people would have to be sent out.”
She recalled an incident where she was filming a sex scene and “two people [on the set] had to be sent out for laughing.”
“One of them was Alwin Küchler, our cinematographer, who was a repeat offender. And one of our hair and makeup people [laughed and got sent out] — which was actually kind of a problem,” Winslet explained, because her partner in the intimate scene had tattoos that were done with makeup.
“And he was getting sweatier and sweatier. They kept rubbing off on parts of my body, like I’ve got the newspaper printed on me.”
Read the full article Here