Kate Winslet Has Never Forgotten This Old Advice from Friend Emma Thompson [Video]

Wise words Emma Thompson once shared with Kate Winslet have stayed with her Sense & Sensibility costar through the years.

Winslet, now 48, was relatively new to show business when she acted alongside established star Thompson, now 65, who wrote the screenplay and costarred in the 1995 adaptation of the Jane Austen novel. The two played sisters, and developed a bond.

“She has a groundedness and a clarity of perception about the industry as a whole,” Winslet said during a conversation with moderator Josh Horowitz at The 92nd Street Y Center for Culture & Arts in New York City on Sept. 23. “She was quite sort of protective of me.” 

A few years later, when the 1998 film Titanic sent Winslet into the stratosphere of fame, Thompson was concerned, according to Winslet.

“I think she was actually just [a] …