“Come closer. Hold on to the railing. “Don’t let go… Now open your eyes.” “I’m flying, Jack!” The scene of Titanic (James Cameron, 1997) in which Jack invites Rose to see the last sunset of her life from the top of the railing of the most famous ocean liner in the world, has remained marked in the collective memory. Now, the person in charge of playing the young English aristocrat, Kate Winslet, revealed this Wednesday, June 12, in an interview with vanity fair, that the recording was not as magical as the final result. “What a nightmare it was to record this,” is his first reaction upon seeing the scene on television from the last century, “we had to record it at least four times because James (referring to the film’s director) was determined to achieve a very specific light.” . Obviously,” he says wryly. “No wonder all the young girls would like to kiss Leonardo,” although when she remembers it she confesses that “it was not all as it seems.”
The actress who appears in the scene in a period dress jokes: “I look at the scene and wonder how I could breathe with that tight corset.” She once climbed the railing, where they both hum Come Josephine ascend in my flying machine (1910), Winslet confesses that it was most annoying. “My tits were practically at the height of my chin,” he also remembers while laughing that his knees were constantly hitting the railing.
“What no one understands is why Leo appears with such natural skin, because he was wearing a lot of makeup.” The winner of an Oscar for The Reader (2009) remembers that during the recording she was responsible for her own makeup, since the scene was recorded in a place inaccessible to the team in charge of it. But she was also in charge of maintaining that of her co-star, who, according to her story, was smeared with suntan lotion. “I had to hide her makeup and mine in this part and in this part,” she says while pointing to her cleavage area. The scene was filmed in several takes, and each time it started again, the actress was in charge of applying makeup and makeup: “Between takes I basically had to redo our makeup. But the truth is that it was very fun to be covered in each other’s makeup. She ended up looking like she had been sucking on a caramel chocolate bar. “Oh God, a disaster!”
For Winslet, Titanic It will always be one of his most special films: “I feel very proud of it, because I feel that it is one of those films that remains at the top.” “Whole generations of people are discovering the film or seeing it for the first time, and there is something extraordinary about that,” she concludes in her interview. The film won 11 statuettes at the Oscars, but it did not catapult her to fame. Kate Winslet had already earned a prestigious place in the world of acting thanks to her role in Sense and Sensibility (nineteen ninety five). Even so, she herself has confessed on multiple occasions that it was not easy to get to play Rose DeWitt Bukater in Titanic. It has been this 2024, in an interview with the magazine Varietywhen he detailed that he pressured his director to get the role: “He even sent me a single rose and told me: ‘I have to be your rose,’” Cameron said.
The 48-year-old Briton not only faced the difficulties of recording, but also the media pressure after the premiere, which, according to her, was detrimental to her mental health. The film became the highest grossing in history, and its protagonist, Leonardo DiCaprio, the most desired man of the moment. But for Winslet it was not a bed of roses at all, as she suffered multiple criticisms for “having too many curves.” In his last appearance in the Hoda Kotb’s Today Show on NBC, the actress confessed to being proud of them and also “It’s not about the makeup, the beauty and the time it takes to put things on. It’s about who you are on the inside and learning to be at peace with that and be okay with that. “I think acceptance and representation are absolutely key for women today.” The actress is now promoting her latest work with Max, The Regime, which will be released on March 4.
