Kate Winslet was emotional as she reunited with Leonardo DiCaprio on Tuesday (19.11.24)

He told the audience at the Harmony Gold theatre: "Kate, my dear friend, your work in this film has been nothing short of transformative.

"I continue to be awestruck. I continue to admire your strength, your integrity, your talent, and your passion to every single project that you create.

"So, without further ado, one of the great talents of my generation. The one-and-only Kate Winslet."

The 49-year-old star - who portrays the late World War II photographer Lee Miller, who went from being a fashion model to a correspondent for Vogue magazine - gave him a kiss before they shared a sweet embrace.

An emotional Kate went on to say: "I can't even look at Leo now because I'll cry."

Kate previously told how she and Leonardo, now 50, "clicked immediately" on the set of 'Titanic'.

She told Entertainment Tonight in 2023: "Once I started working with Leo, we were able to kind of find our own rhythm.

"And it's amazing to kind of look back and think about it all over again. We clicked immediately, right away.

"He was this kind of mess of long, skinny, uncoordinated limbs. And he was just very free with himself, and he had this effervescent energy that was really magnetic.

"And I remember thinking, 'Oh, this is gonna be fun. We're definitely gonna get along.' And we just really did. We just really did."

The 'Mare of Easttown' actress went on to recall that her pal "very smart" even in his early 20s and she could tell how much he "cared" about his work.

She said: "He was then very, very smart, very, very curious. So he was really fascinated with the period, the details to do with the boat, the lower classes, where those people had come from, how those people had paid for their tickets.

"You know, if you think about it, in the world that we live in now, to have friendships that bind you, and that shared history, it's really something.

"We connected on so many levels. That sense of focus on the craft and still really caring deeply about that to this day."