During her appearance on The Tonight Show, Kate Winslet shared memories of Robert Downey Jr.’s audition for the movie The Holiday, calling it “dreadful.” Even though Winslet was cast for the movie, Downey Jr. and Jimmy Fallon were competing for the role that eventually went to Jude Law. “We were told it was just a reading,” said Winslet. “I didn’t know it was an audition for the part. I am so sorry you didn’t get it.”
Winslet then recalled that Downey did an English accent, but it sounded to her like an Australian accent. “I thought, ‘That’s bad. That’s not going to work. Who is going to tell him that sounds dreadful?'” she said. Meanwhile, Downey himself disclosed last year that Winslet roasted him for having the “worst British accent” ever in the audition.
The Holiday is about two lovelorn women who arrange a home swap for the Christmas period. In the movie, Cameron Diaz’s character Amanda falls for Law’s book editor Graham, while Winslet’s Iris sparks a relationship with Jack Black’s film composer Miles. The movie made $205 million worldwide on its release, against a budget of $85 million.
Currently, Winslet is starring in the HBO political satire The Regime, in which she plays a dictator of a fictional Central European country
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