Titanic was and is among the highest-grossing films of all time. A tribute to the ship’s tragic voyage, the film is now known as Kate Winslet’s most eminent movie. From the harrowing storyline to the tragic love story, the movie still remains as iconic as ever.
It was no surprise that Titanic became as big as it is today, given the painstaking efforts it took from the cast and crew. The shoots involved many cast and crew putting their lives at risk, literally, for the perfect shot. The movie’s lead actress Kate Winslet had to shoot multiple perilous underwater scenes that she can’t believe she agreed to shoot.
Kate Winslet Regrets Shooting Life-Threatening Scenes For Titanic
A truly cinematic legend of a film, Titanic has touched upon many a fan’s hearts with its epic scenes and realistic effects. Along with the authentic footage of the ship, shot by the Director himself, the film went on to win 11 Academy Awards with 14 nominations. However, retrospecting the leading lady of the film regrets she put her life at risk for James Cameron’s Titanic.
“For my close-up shots, I was actually weighted down 12 feet underwater. So I’d stay in a fixed position. Looking back, I can’t believe I allowed that……After three takes, I simply said I couldn’t do anymore.”
Kate Winslet revealed in an interview how she feared for her safety during an underwater shoot with her co-star Leonardo DiCaprio. Along with facing trouble using the air regulator, she even swallowed some water. The actor went on to remark how nobody once asked her if she could actually swim, given the movie required multiple distressing underwater shoots.
Kate Winslet Wasn’t The Only One To Face Trouble During The Shoot
The 20-hour shoot often went on from 5 AM to 1 AM and was greatly disorienting and disturbing for a lot of the cast and crew. Kate Winslet nearly drowned during the shoot when her clothes were caught by a gate, which let her be diagnosed with pneumonia.
The dirty water being pumped around directly from the ocean only made matters worse when multiple crew and actors were hospitalized with kidney infections. The freezing water and sinking scenes further left many injured with fractures, ruptured organs, and pneumonia.
Things only took a turn for worse at the pre-shoot wrap-up party, when James Cameron and other cast and crew members were hospitalized when their lobster chowder was spiked with PCP.
Reading about the experiences the cast and crew went through during the shoot of Titanic, it is true when they say the film industry can be a dangerous profession.
Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio took the world audience in awe since Titanic’s release in 1997. The Academy-winning actress gained instant stardom and has time and again, expressed her obsession with The Revenant actor since James Cameron’s cult classic.
As their fans wished to watch the on-screen couple together more often, it was only a decade after that the two actors reunited for Sam Mendes-directed Revolutionary Road. During the film’s promotional tour, Winslet couldn’t hush about her obsession with her co-star.
Kate Winslet’s Then-Husband Didn’t Mind Her On-Screen Intimacy With Leo
Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio once again thrilled their global fanbase as they reunited for her then-husband, Sam Mendes’ 2008 movie, Revolutionary Road, wherein the Titanic co-stars played the role of a couple, whose marriage was on the verge of collapsing.
During the promotional tour of the $76 million film, the Grammy-winning actress revealed how she wanted to spend all her time with Leonardo DiCaprio on set and revealed how he felt more like a husband than her real-life husband. She said:
“He feels more like my husband than my real husband. I have to say, I’ve been talking about him so much.”
The movie’s director, Mendes, who was her real-life husband back then, didn’t mind her doing “more intimate scenes with DiCaprio in the film”, which somewhere made her uncomfortable during the filming. Revolutionary Road included some rather “passionate pieces” between the co-stars.
