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Kate Winslet used her time on the Graham Norton sofa on Friday to recount a story she has never shared publicly about her time on Saturday Night Live.
The 50-year-old hosted the US sketch comedy show in 2004 while promoting the fantasy biopic Finding Neverland, which traces the fictional story of how J. M. Barrie came to write the world of Peter Pan.
Winslet was hosting SNL while Eminem was the musical guest that week and she detailed how the show was under immense pressure due to a lip-syncing fiasco the week prior.
After detailing how there had been a lot of umming and ahhing over Winslet’s monologue, she told the Graham Norton sofa about an interaction she had with the hip hop star.
‘This is a story I’ve never, never told,’ she prefaced the details with. ‘Eminem asked me to shave his bottom.’
Laughing, she added to the BBC One audience: ‘It’s always like a poo/bum theme for me when I come on this show.’
Norton in the hosting chair had questions about whether it had been a handheld razor and Winslet did her best American accent to recreate the moment.
‘He said, “Would you shave my butt?” And I said, “I’m sorry. I don’t do personal grooming.”
‘I’m not going to go with a BIC and get your crack love. Never told that story before ever in my life in public.’
Winslet described the experience of being on SNL as ‘absolutely terrifying’ because of how down to the wire the entire process was.
The week before, Ashlee Simpson had come under fire for quite blatantly failing to sing along to her track Pieces of Me, which prompted the SNL writers to go the extra mile the following week to ensure the show was bang on.
Winslet said: ‘I’m thinking, “Oh my god, what’s the opening monologue going to be?”
‘I get to Wednesday night, still, they’re like, “Well, we’re just trying to figure it out.” I’m like, “Just please tell me, it’s a couple of days away, just what you’re going to have me do.”
The following day she said she was asked if she could tap dance and sing, to which the writing team then responded ‘Perfect. We’ll get back to you.’
Winslet, who did indeed do a tap dancing monologue in the end, added: ‘I’m like, Oh my god, now what’s happening? This is absolutely terrible. They gave me 24 hours to learn.’
The Graham Norton Show airs on Friday evenings on BBC One.
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