Yahoo Lifestyle Kate Winslet reveals her fear of cows: 'I have decided that they are going to stampede me to the ground'
"I've gotta get better at coping at that, because, you know, they're not really scary, are they?"
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Kate Winslet; a cowFor Kate Winslet, there's no difference between "boo" and "moo."
The Titanic star recently opened up about her fear of bovines during an interview on The Late Show. After host Stephen Colbert asked her what she thinks the scariest animal is, Winslet replied, "I'm honestly not brilliant with cows."
She acknowledged that her answer might sound a bit unusual, but she backed up her claim with a troubling anecdote. "Someone said to me, 'Oh, you've gotta learn how to read a field of cows. You have!'" she said. "'No, you've gotta be careful. 'Cause if they turn, oof, they've gone.' I said, 'What do you mean?' 'Well, if their tails are swishin' and they're flickin' like that and there's flies, that means they're not happy. They might charge you.'"
Winslet hasn't shaken the unease of that conversation. "This is a thing I never knew," the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind actress said. "And I go hiking all the time, and regularly footpaths will take you through fields of cows. And I have decided that they are going to stampede me to the ground."
Colbert then asked if her fear of a stampede has ever manifested in any genuine form of danger. "Actually, there was a time when my mother was alive, and she and I were on a walk, and some cows absolutely were catching up with us," Winslet responded. "They were slowly Bo-Peeping it, and then they did speed up. Really, truly. Borderline, couple of gallopers, I'd say."
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Kate WinsletEven though Winslet hasn't personally encountered anything scarier than that Bo-Peeping, she insisted that others have had concerning close calls with cattle. "There are quite a lot of stories in England of people having very nasty run-ins with cows, very real ones," she said. "So I am extremely wary of a field of cows."
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Winslet did admit that it's not a particularly sensible phobia. "I've gotta get better at coping at that, because, you know, they're not really scary, are they?" she asked. "They're not!"
Yet somehow, that's not the strangest quirk in Winslet's household. "You know, like, nails down a chalkboard?" Winslet asked Colbert and the audience. "My husband has that about a person biting into an apple. Someone else, or him. He would never bite into an apple. If he was here, he would go 'ah!' and his hairs would be all up on his arm. Oh God, he's going to kill me for telling this story."
Winslet said her spouse, Edward Abel Smith, can't even handle a sliced or grated apple. "And as you can imagine, the children and I, I'm afraid we will go up behind him [and chomp]," she revealed. "He's like, 'Ahh!'…It's like you've poured hot water over his skull. He's in proper pain, and will block his ears and leave the room."
Watch Winslet discuss her fear of cows with Colbert above.
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