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Carly Levy

Kate Winslet Talks Working With Her Daughter Onscreen When She Turned 21, And How At That Age She’d Already Filmed Titanic And Been Nominated For An Oscar

Kate Winslet and Mia Threapleton in I Am Ruth

When you think about it, Kate Winslet achieved massive success at a very young age, and since then has gone on to have a remarkable career. Some of Winslet's best movies were made when she was in her early 20s, like Sense and Sensibility and one of James Cameron’s highest-grossing movies Titanic. So, when the actress got to work with her then-21-year-old daughter on screen, she took a moment to reflect, and revealed that she couldn’t believe she was the same age as her daughter when she finished filming Titanic and got her first Oscar nomination.

Last December, Kate Winslet and her daughter, Mia Threapleton, starred in an episode of the Channel 4 anthology series I Am… with their episode "I Am Ruth," which was about a strained relationship between a mother and daughter due to social media. While being interviewed by Josh Horowitz, the Titanic actress put two and two together during their time on I Am Ruth, explaining that Threapleton was the same age as she was when filming Titanic. This movie she filmed with Leonardo DiCaprio went on to find great success, and she received her first Oscar nomination for Sense and Sensibility, and she couldn't quite believe it happened when she was so young, as she said:

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