Kate Winslet

Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio: EW's Exclusive Reunion Q&A!

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: At what point did you both finally grow comfortable with fame?

LEONARDO DICAPRIO: You never get used to it. Post-Titanic, it was more intense than anyone our age has ever dealt with in the history of...anything. It was the modern era of media and paparazzi where they're organized, with multiple SUVs following you around. I didn't know it would at the time, but it has way calmed down in my life.

KATE WINSLET: Also, neither of us court the attention. We don't go to every red-carpet event, even though we sometimes might actually quite like to go if it was a movie a friend was in. We live in a time now where the world has so much access to celebrities and their lives and the color of their underwear.

DICAPRIO: If Titanic came out now, it would be nuts, right?

With websites and camera phones...

DICAPRIO: Camera phones are, I think, harmless. [Dabbing his nose and holding up his blood-splotched napkin] By the way, I'm bleeding profusely. Look at all this blood!

WINSLET: Don't pick.

DICAPRIO: But then I'm going to have a bloody, clotty thing on my nose.

WINSLET: By rubbing and pressing it you're making the skin raw.

DICAPRIO: Yes, Mummy. What is unique now is the full-fledged news cameras. They're hilarious.

WINSLET: Or even just the little DVD cams. I had an experience last year where I was walking my son back from nursery school. I was giving him a piggyback, and literally the whole walk home there was a guy on the other side of the street with a video camera. And I thought, ''I have no protection. There's literally nothing I can do. But I know that what that man is doing is sick because I have a child with me, and I don't want my children to grow up feeling watched. Ever.'' So I got home, luckily Sam was there, and he took my son inside. And I went back out and approached this guy and I said, ''Listen...''

In your fiercest or your most charming voice?

WINSLET: In this exact voice. [Eyes lower, voice deepens.] ''I need you to hand me that footage right now.'' And he said, ''I can't, I'm just doing my job.'' And I said, ''No, in this moment right now, you are not just doing your job. You are taking my child's privacy away and that is definitely inappropriate in the grand scheme of the way the world works. Please, would you hand me that footage?'' And you know what? He did!

DICAPRIO: No way, that's nuts. I don't believe you. I think you're making that up.

WINSLET: I promise I'm not!

Do your hearts swell at the sight of someone like Zac Efron or now Twilight's Robert Pattinsonbeing shot out of Hollywood's cannon?

DICAPRIO: That's the interesting thing about being an actor. You are also a public figure. Early on I made it my policy that a certain amount of publicity is good — you promote your job, you do your movie, you retain your private life, you don't divulge everything about yourself. And when I see younger actors getting a tremendous amount of publicity, I say to myself, Well, they've been given an unbelievable opportunity, and I hope they know within themselves that all that really matters at the end of the day is the work. All this noise and attention will absolutely deteriorate and there will be a new, fresh piece of meat for the media to focus on within less than a year's time. So what they should do at this moment is work their asses off to prove to the public and prove to themselves that they can absolutely have a long-term career.

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