Leonardo DiCaprio Supports Kate Winslet At ‘Lee’ Screening: “I Continue To Be Awestruck”

More than 25 years after their breakout role, Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio are still cheering each other on in their careers.

At a recent special screening of Winslet’s new film Lee, which premiered in September, DiCaprio referred to the actress as “one of the great talents of my generation” in a brief but heartfelt introduction.

“Kate, my dear friend, your work in this film has been nothing short of transformative,” he said in a video from the screening. “I continue to be awestruck, I continue to admire your strength, your integrity, your talent and your passion in every single project you create.”

Directed by Ellen Kuras, Lee stars Winslet as fashion model, turned World War II photographer, Elizabeth ‘Lee’ Miller.

The Oscar-winning actress previously made her breakout performance alongside DiCaprio in James Cameron‘s Titanic (1997), earning her a Best Actress nod at the Academy Awards, before reuniting with the actor with Sam Mendes‘ Revolutionary Road (2008).

Winslet recently revealed that Lee resulted in another Titanic reunion, after she watched composer Alexandre Desplat lead a 120-piece orchestra for the film’s score. “And I’m looking at this violinist and I thought, ‘I know that face,'” she recalled on The Graham Norton Show.

“You know when the Titanic is going down, and the violinist stands up and he goes, ‘Come on, lads,’ and he starts playing?” the actress explained. “It was that guy! I’m like, ‘It’s you!’ It was amazing.”

Winslet added, “It was him. It was just wonderful, and there he was. We had so many moments like that in the film, where people I’ve either worked before or really known for a long time [and] kind of grown up in the industry with, they just showed up for me, and it was incredible.”

Jonathan Evans-Jones played the violinist in Titanic, along with his fellow I Salonisti members, a chamber music ensemble founded in 1981.