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In this Sunday’s issue of PARADE, Kate Winslet talks to James Kaplan about her new film Revolutionary Road, how she finds normalcy in her public life and the advice she wants to give her children. Below, the actress talks more about her onscreen reunion with Leonardo DiCaprio.

Q: What was it like to team up with Leonardo DiCaprio again?

A: Revolutionary Road is very important to me, because it was such a labor of love, and such a passion project for all of us. Also, the added pressure of not only my husband Sam and I working together for the first time, but Leo and I back together on screen after almost 12 years.

Q: Did you feel added pressure?

A: We really wanted to get it right. And there’s just bound to be a certain amount of expectation. There’s going to be a lot of intrigue, for reasons that are not just this story, because of Titanic and because of our history, our on-screen history.

Q: What it was like to have your husband direct you in this film?

A: The fact that we are married was incredibly helpful, just simply because he knows my history, as I know his. So there were certain moments when he could see the dark places I was trying to go to and he would know to just leave me alone. I don’t share everything with every actor or director. There’s always a little something that I’m keeping for myself, my own baggage that, if I were to sit down with a therapist and dissect those things, they wouldn’t be baggage any more. Which is why I’ve never wanted to have therapy, because I quite like my baggage, and I quite like sorting through it for myself, because it comes in very handy in my work.

Q: Was it difficult to change gears within the relationship with him?

A: Funnily enough, no. You might imagine that we would have lunch together every day. I never wanted to do that. There were times he would say, ‘Oh, why don’t you pop into the trailer? We’ll have a quick coffee before you go back into hair and makeup after lunch.’ I’d say, ‘Oh, no-no, I can’t. I have to just sit and think.’ I was the one who actually was not wanting to have sort of sociable times together with him on set. I would never have lunch with a director. So why should it have been any different just because we were married?

Q: How did that dynamic play out when working with Leo?

A: Sam would try to surprise me or surprise Leo when we were doing scenes together, and because Leo and I do have sort of an almost telepathic connection, because we’ve known each other for such a long time and have remained friends consistently over all of these years, I know how Leo thinks, I know how he works, as he does with me. Sometimes, in order to just twist the scene around, Sam would quietly say to Leo, ‘Just surprise her; try this thing.’ Or he would come to me and say, ‘Try this — don’t tell him you’re going to do it.’ So he would have to do that, so that Leo and I were able to keep it fresh and alive.

Q: Are you able to set the movie star part of the job apart from the job itself?

A: The big fame thing — that sort of changed everything. I was very thrown by that, and extremely confused by it. People would say to me when we were making Titanic, ‘What are you going to do? Your life is going to change completely.’ And I would defiantly say, ‘Well, no, it’s not.’ But of course it changed. My life did absolutely change, and I did have to make some adjustments, and I did have to accept the fact that I couldn’t go and use the public swimming pool as regularly as I used to, just because it was a silly idea — just because I couldn’t swim 60 laps without someone stopping me and saying, ‘Aren’t you that girl who…’

But I think I was so young and I wasn’t ready for any of that. I found my own way in a rather sort of unpredictable way, by choosing to do smaller movies in order to just be able to stick to the craft of acting, because that’s what I love. I really, really needed to hang on to that, to survive really for a couple of years, and just let the dust settle.

Q: There’s been a lot written about your weight and your body. How do you deal with the media scrutiny?

A: I have been very lucky to achieve a certain amount of success at a certain age, so that I didn’t have to change myself physically in order to attempt to find my success. That’s been a very, very big deal. As a kid, I was not very confident at all. I think that my confidence as a woman and as an actress has grown over the years through the roles I’ve played. But at the same time, this notion that nobody is perfect — movie stars included — is very important to me. It’s a very important message to give to young women.

Q: It’s a big subject in a lot of people’s minds.

A: For that reason I will never be unhappy to talk about it. Because it IS a big subject in people’s minds, and I do think that it will continue to be important, simply because so much of what young women are seeing these days is through the media. It’s the exact reason why, even though I’m on the covers of magazines, I don’t allow magazines into my home — because that’s where it starts. My daughter is eight. It’s only a matter of time before she is going to start picking these magazines up and going, ‘Oh, can I have that lip gloss?’ or ‘I like that thing’ or that… She’s eight. Come on. I don’t want it to start that young — body awareness seems to be getting younger and younger.

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Titanic’s Leonardo DiCaprio rounds out the top five, raking in $45 million during the year. He’s the unique movie star who can get $20 million for work in R-rated adult dramas, which, because of viewer age restrictions, have limited ability to generate big box office numbers.

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Warner Bros. and Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company, Appian Way, are seeking material for a feature take on one or more episodes from the classic TV series.

Appian Way is not known for sci-fi projects, but “Twilight Zone” is said to be DiCaprio’s favorite show.

The studio and production company are quietly putting out word that they’re looking for pitches and script ideas based on the show for feature development.

The companies don’t aim to make an episodic movie like the 1983 “Twilight Zone,” the only big-screen version of the series, but rather hope to build one continuing story line based on one or more episodes.

Warners owns rights to the Rod Serling-penned episodes, which account for the bulk of its 1959-64 run. The Serling shows include such famous episodes as “To Serve Man,” about giant aliens who land on Earth, and “Eye of the Beholder,” about an inverted society where the attractive are considered ugly. The original series contained about 155 episodes.

Thanks to syndication — the show now runs on Sci Fi Channel — and many pop-culture homages, “Twilight Zone” continues to have a devoted, if somewhat older-skewing, fan base nearly five decades after it left the primetime airwaves.

Twenty-five years ago Warners released a four-segment film based on the series. Each segment was helmed by a different director — Joe Dante, John Landis, George Miller and Steven Spielberg — with three of the segments direct remakes of classic episodes.

The movie drew modest boxoffice and was known mainly for the on-set accident that killed actor Vic Morrow and two child actors during production of the Landis-directed section.

There have been other attempts at “Zone” updates, among them CBS’ 1994 TV movie based on several Serling episodes. Summit is making a big-screen version of the Richard Matheson-penned story “Countdown,” which was turned into the “Twilight Zone” episode “Death Ship” and centers on astronauts who land on a planet only to find their dead bodies already there.

Are you ready for the list of celebrities vacationing together in Hawaii? There’s Courteney Cox, David Arquette, and Coco; Tobey Maguire, Jennifer Meyer, and Ruby; Isla Fisher, Sacha Baron Cohen, and Olive; Leonardo DiCaprio, Lukas Haas, and a whole bunch more buddies. Phew. The A-List group of friends were all out on a boating, snorkeling, paddling trip together at the end of last week, and there’s just too many treats to even describe in these photos. From Leo playing with little Olive to Isla not being quite as adept on the surfboard as Courteney and her hot bikini body. How goofy does Leo look? We got to see a little of the Cox-Arquettes solo in Hawaii as well as Isla, Sacha, and Olive playing around, but it’s so much more fun to see the whole crew together! What a great way to celebrate the end of Summer.

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