They could be the kings of the world, but they still had to control the kissing thing a little better.
It was the dream of any 90s teenager: kissing Leonardo DiCaprio in ‘Titanic’ and feeling like Kate Winslet after telling him that “Paint me like one of your French girls”. James Cameron knew how to capture the sensuality of the late 20th century and encapsulate it in a film that continues to resonate more than 25 years later. And yet, Reality on a shoot is never as beautiful as it is painted.
Kateando in kissography
The actress, who has revisited some of the most legendary scenes from the film for Vanity Fair, has declared that kissing the actor was not the fairy tale that anyone imagined at the time: “My God, he’s such a romantic, isn’t he? No wonder all the young girls in the world want Leonardo DiCaprio to kiss them. Well not everything is as it seems“.
We did this kiss over and over again, I had a lot of pale makeup on and we had to do makeup checks – both of us, between takes – and I ended up looking like I had sucked on a candy bar after each take because her makeup was falling on me. on.
In fact, during the viewing he notices that there is a piece of DiCaprio’s face without makeup: “It was a disaster”. And the memories don’t get better: “Leo couldn’t stop laughing and we had to re-record it like four different times because James Cameron I wanted a very specific light for this scene and the sunsets kept changing where we were”.
The famous “I am the king of the world!” scene Now it seems very iconic to us, but the truth is that during filming it was rather “a nightmare”: “This was a section of the ship that wasn’t part of the set. We had to climb a flight of stairs to get there. Hair and makeup couldn’t reach us. Now, it’s impossible to tell because Leo looks completely natural, but He had to lie in solariums and get a lot of artificial tanning“.
But that doesn’t mean, not even remotely, that I feel the slightest bit of anger towards the film. Quite the opposite: “I feel very proud of her because I feel like it’s the movie that never stops giving. A lot of generations are discovering it or seeing it for the first time, and there is something extraordinary about it.”. Disaster or no disaster, cinema icons, icons must remain.
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