Kate Winslet is terrified of cows

When asked to name the world's most terrifying creature, Kate told the host: "I'm honestly not brilliant with cows and I know that sounds ... [silly] but listen here's the thing.

"Someone said to me: 'Oh you've got to learn how to read a field of cows, you have, you've got to be careful because if they turn, oof they've gone.'

"I said: 'What do you mean?' [The person replied] 'Well if their tails are swishin' and they're flickin' like that and there's flies, it means they're unhappy.

"They might charge you.' And I was like: 'Oh my God!' ...

"I have decided that they are going to stampede me to the ground ... "

Kate went on to recall a terrifying incident which occurred when she was out on a walk in the countryside with her late mother.

She said: "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 ...

"They were slowly Bo-Peeping it and then they did speed up, really, truly. Borderline [a] couple of gallopers, I'd say.

"However, there are quite a lot of stories in England about people having very nasty run-ins with cows. Very real ones. So I am extremely wary of a field of cows."

Kate went on to insist she wants to "get better at coping" with her fear, telling Colbert: "They're not really scary, are they? No, they're not".

However, she added it's right to be wary of cows, calling it a "legit fear".