Kate Winslet revealed her extreme, yet ‘incredible’, birthday plans to celebrate turning 50 next year on Monday.
The actress, 48, has a few ideas up her sleeve to mark the milestone but has insisted she doesn’t want any presents at all.
Speaking on The Chris Evans Breakfast Show on Virgin Radio, Kate admitted that she wants to do ’50 incredible things for 50′.
The challenge will consist of acts of kindness, physical feats and even trying new foods.
She told Chris: ‘I’m going blind in my old age and I’ll be 50 next year, do you know that Chris?
Kate Winslet, 48, revealed her extreme, yet ‘incredible’, birthday plans to celebrate turning 50 next year on Monday
The actress has a few ideas up her sleeve to mark the milestone but has insisted she doesn’t want any presents at all
‘I want to talk about birthday plans because actually I’ve been thinking of some and we need to compare.
‘I don’t want any presents. Here’s my thing. I want to do 50 incredible things for 50 but they have to be made up of acts of kindness, physical feats and probably something like trying foods I’ve never tried before.
‘I’d like something like that. We don’t need to keep being given presents, do we? We can just do things, put nice things into the world, that’s better.’
She also opened up about her forgotten real life romance with Scoop star Rufus Sewell.
The actors famously starred in The Holiday together where Rufus’ character Jasper, left Kate’s character Iris, who was in love with him, heartbroken by announcing his engagement to another woman at Christmas.
However, off screen years before filming for the Christmas classic, the pair enjoyed a brief romance after they met while working together at the Royal Shakespeare Company in the early 1990s.
Kate brought up their past romance as Chris asked whether the 48-year-old has had a chance to watch Netflix’s Scoop yet, which sees Rufus star as Prince Andrew.
Kate replied: ‘No. But I bumped into Gillian Anderson at an event not very long ago, and I was asking her about it.
Speaking on The Chris Evans Breakfast Show on Virgin Radio, Kate admitted that she wants to do ’50 incredible things for 50′, consisting of acts of kindness, physical feats and even trying new foods
She also opened up about her forgotten real life romance with Scoop star Rufus Sewell, 57
The pair enjoyed a brief romance after they met while working together at the Royal Shakespeare Company in the early 1990s (pictured in 1995)
The actors famously starred in The Holiday together as Rufus’ character Jasper, left Kate’s character Iris, who was in love with him, heartbroken by announcing his engagement to another woman at Christmas (pictured with co-stars Cameron Diaz and Jude Law)
‘And Rufus Sewell is so terrific, you know, I used to go out with Rufus Sewell years ago. Back in the day, a long time ago, I think I must have been 21 or something.’
Gushing over her former flame, she continued: ‘He’s so fantastic and to see him front and centre in a way that I think we haven’t done on British television for a long, long time, very long time, I’m really, really excited to see what he does.’
Kate and Rufus, 57, dated for a three months after she split from her first love Stephen Tredre in 1995, who later died of bone cancer in 1997.
She later said: ‘We’re very good friends but it was never a serious relationship.’
The pair have remained pals since and went on to film The Holiday together in 2006.
