Jack Black Gave Kate Winslet This Nickname on the Set of “The Holiday” (and People Still Use It!)

The actress said people still used the nickname on the set of her film 'Lee,' which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month

<p>Moviestore/Shutterstock </p> Kate Winslet and Jack Black in <em>The Holiday</em> (2006)

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Kate Winslet and Jack Black in The Holiday (2006)

Kate Winslet still carries a special gift from Jack Black to this day!

The Lee actress, 48, was treated to a video message from her The Holiday costar on Monday, Sept. 23, during an advanced screening of her new film in New York City.

After jokingly asking Winslet, "When's Holiday 2 [happening]?", Black, 55, said in his video, "You're the best. How you doing? Anyway, I miss you. Love you."

Laughing, Winslet said during the screening conversation with Happy Sad Confused's Josh Horowitz that Black "started my nickname."

"I actually have a little bit of a nickname on set," she continued. "So my nickname is K Dub, and Jack started that honestly. Now on set, most people say K Dub. Or on Lee, shall they ask for Kate? Because there was two of us."

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<p>Jeff Spicer/Getty</p> Kate Winslet at the U.K. premiere of <em>Lee</em> in London on Sept. 3, 2024

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Kate Winslet at the U.K. premiere of Lee in London on Sept. 3, 2024

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In The Holiday, heartbroken movie-trailer producer Amanda (Cameron Diaz) offers up her Los Angeles mansion in order to get away for the holidays, before similarly downtrodden columnist Iris (Winslet) answers, swapping her English country cottage.

During their visits, Amanda falls for Iris' widower brother Graham (Jude Law), a book editor, while Iris hits it off with film composer Miles (Black), a friend of Amanda's ex, Ethan (Edward Burns).

During a February appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Winslet revealed that more people recognize her for her role in the 2006 rom-com than 1997’s Titanic, "especially" during the yuletide season.

“And actually what’s so lovely is that mothers and daughters come up to me in the grocery store and they say, ‘Oh Kate, we just love The Holiday, it's our little ritual at Christmas,’ ” the Oscar winner told host Jimmy Fallon.

“They have things that they eat every year, they sit down, it’s a tradition and I just love that,” Winslet added. “That’s something I never would have expected actually, the sort of mother-daughter connection around a film like that. It’s so nice. It’s lovely.”

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<p>Photo by Zade Rosenthal/Sony/Kobal/Shutterstock </p> Kate Winslet and Jack Black in <em>The Holiday</em> (2006)

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Kate Winslet and Jack Black in The Holiday (2006)

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Despite buzz about a second film, Nancy Meyers, who directed the original film, denied that a sequel was in the works in December 2022, much to the dismay of The Holiday fans everywhere.

Winslet also shut down the rumor to PEOPLE, saying, "I read something about that, but it's the first I've heard of it."

"I promise you, not an agent or a representative or anyone from the first one around has had any conversation with me about that," she added. "Hand on heart, that's never come up."

But back in June, Law, 51, told E! News that he "love(s) the idea" of a potential follow-up. And while he noted that fans would "have to ask" Meyers, 74, about getting the movie made, when it comes to his own involvement, he added, "Why not?"

"I think Graham still has cardigans and glasses, and reads," Law joked of where his character would be today. "He's probably worried sick about the girls, right? [His] daughters will be 28, 29."

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