Some 25 years after the film’s release titanic, Kate Winslet has opened up about the many derogatory comments she received about her weight at the time. “Apparently I was too fat. Isn’t that awful? Why were people so mean? They were so mean…I wasn’t even fat,” she said on the podcast. Happy Sad Confused.
The interpreter of Rose DeWitt Bukater claims that people made fun of her weight a lot in connection with the famous scene where she floats on a door after the sinking of the boat. According to them, it was because she was too big that her companion Jack, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, could not get on the makeshift raft.
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Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio in a scene from titanic
“I would have liked to say: don’t dare treat me like that. I am a young woman. My body is changing. I try to understand it. I live with insecurities. I’m terrified. Don’t make it harder than it already is. This is bullying,” she continued.
The scene where Jack dies of hypothermia has raised passions since the film was released in 1997. Could the couple have boarded the floating door together? In a recent interview with Toronto Sun, director James Cameron says he conducted a scientific experiment to prove that only one of the two characters could survive on the object. This will be presented during a special program scheduled to air in February, adds the director.