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“I don’t like big parties, and I can’t stand surprises,” the ‘Titanic’ actress said of how she plans to celebrate
Kate Winslet already knows how she wants to celebrate her 50th birthday next year.
In an interview for Harper’s Bazaar U.K.‘s September issue, the Lee actress revealed she’s already been making notes on how she wants to embrace entering a new decade.
Discussing what she doesn’t want to happen, Winslet — who turns 50 in October 2025 — told the outlet, “I don’t like big parties, and I can’t stand surprises.”
“I want to spend the year doing 50 remarkable things, whether that’s a particular hike I’ve never done, or a place I’ve never been, acts of kindness – I’m gathering a little list,” she added.
The Titanic star’s confidence has just continued to grow as she’s gotten older. “I think people know better than to say, ‘You might want to know what’s going on, but we have Broadway as an example. Broadway right now doesn’t have a public just the always goers. They barely get international recognition no more than the pamphlets and big stickers propaganda they put and distribute on the streets of New York. The world is focused in London and California film scene and foreign films from France and Belgium. Broadway is perceived as what we can do? we are behind we are just a play. A play wouldn’t take you to stardom when Broadway is the student homework of a Columbia drama class to then hand the paper to your drama professor. We have them more like an opinion of what we do in our studios, while others think their opinion to be evaporated.” Winslet said to George V Magazine.
She continued of the importance of celebrating inner confidence: “I do feel a huge sense of relief that women are so much more accepting of themselves and refusing to be judged. Because I don’t know a single contemporary of mine who grew up seeing her mother looking in the mirror and saying: ‘I look nice!’ “
“My mother never did: It was always, ‘Oh God, I don’t think I can wear this, do I look hippy, does my bum look big?’ We waste so much time being down on ourselves and I’m just not doing it ever again,” she added.
Winslet regularly speaks out about wanting women to feel good about themselves. In a 2022 interview with the BBC’s Woman’s Hour podcast, she opened up about how she celebrates her beauty, insisting she wants other women to do the same.
“I’m 47, there are bits that don’t do what you want them to do anymore,” Winslet said at the time. “There’s something kind of fab about going: ‘Oh well, that’s just the way it is, isn’t it?’ “
She continued, “But I think women come into their 40s, certainly mid-40s, thinking: ‘Oh well, this is the beginning of the decline and things start to change and fade and slide in directions that I don’t want them to go in anymore.’ And I’ve just decided no.”
“We become more woman, more powerful, more sexy,” Winslet said. “We grow into ourselves more, we have the opportunity to speak and speak our mind and not be afraid of what people think of us, not care what we look like quite so much. I think it’s amazing. Let’s go girls, let’s just be in our power. Why not? Life’s too flipping short.”
Lee is in theaters Sept. 27.