Kate Winslet mentioned her iconic “Titanic” kiss with Leonardo DiCaprio “was not all it’s cracked up to be.”
“Oh my Lordy,” mentioned Winslet whereas lately sitting down with Self-importance Honest to look at the scene from James Cameron’s 1997 Oscar-winning movie once more. “This might be really cringe.”
“See, I look at that and I just see how much I couldn’t breathe in that bloody corset,” she continued. “Oh, this was a nightmare, shooting this, because Leo couldn’t stop laughing and we had to re-shoot this about four times because Jim wanted a very specific light for this.”
Winslet defined that the sunsets on set “kept changing,” nonetheless, making the kissing scene an elongated ordeal. She additionally mentioned they “had to climb up a ladder” to succeed in the “sawn-off bit” of set in query, which proved to be a problem for the make-up division.
“So we kept doing this kiss and I have a lot of pale makeup on, and I would have to do our makeup checks — me, on both of us — between takes,” she informed Self-importance Honest. “And I would end up looking as though I had been sucking a caramel chocolate bar after each take.”
She additionally recalled repeatedly “bumping my knees on that third railing.”
“Oh, God,” Winslet mentioned. “It was such a mess.” She additional decried the truth that her “boobs are practically up to my chin” throughout the scene.
The actor defined that DiCaprio needed to “lay on sun beds” throughout manufacturing and used “a lot of fake tan” for his character, and mentioned they spent hours “giggling, covered in each other’s makeup.”
Winslet beforehand recalled how “free” and “magnetic” DiCaprio was on the time, and informed “Entertainment Tonight” final December that he “had this effervescent energy.” She mentioned they “connected on so many levels” whereas filming, as DiCaprio was “very smart” and “very, very curious.”
“He was really fascinated with the period, the details to do with the boat, the lower classes, where those people had come from … [and] paid for their tickets,” Winslet informed the outlet, including: “I certainly can’t imagine it being anyone other than Leo.”
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Winslet confessed that DiCaprio was “quite the romancer” on-screen on the time: “No wonder every young girl in the world wanted to be kissed by Leonardo DiCaprio.”
Nevertheless, “it was not all it’s cracked up to be,” she mentioned.
Winslet, who was solely 22 years outdated when “Titanic” launched her into stardom, mentioned she’s nonetheless “very proud” of the film. She argued “there’s something extraordinary” in regards to the 27-year-old undertaking changing into a “film that just keeps giving” — earlier than sharing a minor quibble.
“It doesn’t mean that people don’t get me to try and reenact this every time I’m on a flipping boat,” Winslet mentioned Wednesday, “which does my head in.”
