‘Titanic’: Leonardo DiCaprio Makes Blunt Admission About Iconic Film
What To Know
- Leonardo DiCaprio revealed he has never rewatched Titanic, despite its iconic status, during a conversation with Jennifer Lawrence.
- Kate Winslet reflected on memorable and challenging moments filming Titanic, including the difficulties of shooting the famous bow scene with DiCaprio.
- Winslet expressed pride in Titanic‘s enduring legacy, noting how new generations continue to discover and appreciate the film.
Titanic star Leonardo DiCaprio recently made a blunt admission about the iconic 1997 film.
On Dec. 17, DiCaprio, 51, sat down with Hunger Games actress Jennifer Lawrence, 35, for an episode of CNN and Variety’s Actors on Actors. They discussed a wide range of topics, including the James Cameron dramatization of the Titanic’s 1912 sinking, starring DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.
“Have you rewatched Titanic?” Lawrence asked, to which he admitted, “No. Haven’t seen it.”
“Oh, you should,” she insisted. “I bet you could, like, watch it as a movie now. And it’s so good.”
After DiCaprio shared that he doesn’t rewatch most of his films, he asked Lawrence if she does.
“No, I’ve never made something like Titanic,” she replied. “But if I did, I would watch it.”
Lawrence continued, “When I was really drunk, I put on American Hustle. I was like, ‘I wonder if I’m good at acting.’ I don’t remember what the answer was.”
In 2024, Winslet, 50, rewatched Titanic scenes share reacted to them for Vanity Fair’s Scene Selection series.
“See, I look at that, and I just see how much I couldn’t breathe in that bloody corset,” she said of the scene where her character, Rose, and Jack (DiCaprio) kiss at the bow of the ship. “Oh, this was a nightmare, shooting this. Because Leo couldn’t stop laughing, and we had to reshoot this about four times because Jim wanted a very specific light for this, obviously.”
Winslet admitted she could understand why “every young girl in the world wanted to be kissed by Leonardo DiCaprio.” However, she also warned that it wasn’t “all that it was cracked up to be.” That’s mostly because their makeup kept rubbing off on each other, and she had to redo both of their faces between takes.
“I do feel very proud of it,” Winslet concluded of Titanic. “Because I feel it is that film that just keeps giving. Whole other generations of people are discovering the film or seeing it for the first time, and there’s something extraordinary about that.”
She then joked, “It doesn’t mean that people don’t get me to try and reenact this every time that I’m on a flipping boat, which does my head in.”
Titanic, streaming on Netflix and Paramount+