Titanic actor Kate Winslet on Friday opened up about being trolled and body shamed for the controversial Titanic ending.
On the Happy Sad Confused podcast’s episode on Friday, Kate Winslet who acted as Rose in Titanic talked about the film’s ending and controversy about whether Leonardo DiCaprio could have also fit on the Driftwood’s scrap to save her. There were haters who argued that she was very fat in the film and held her responsible for the film’s ending.
“Why were they so mean to me?”, “I wasn’t even f— fat,” said Winslet while responding to the haters.
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When asked by Kate about how she would’ve reacted to those trollers back then, she said “I would have said, ‘Don’t you dare treat me like this. I’m a young woman. My body is changing. I’m figuring it out. I’m deeply insecure. I’m terrified. Don’t make this any harder than it already is.”
She also added, “That’s bullying and actually borderline abusive.”
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She also went into the scientific details of the film’s ending and explained “I have to be honest. I actually don’t believe that we would have survived if we had both gotten on that door. I think that he could have fit, but it would have tipped … and it would not have been a sustainable idea. So you heard it here for the first time: Yes, he could have fit on that door, but it would not have stayed afloat.”
The Academy Award winner Kate Winslet is in the news for her new film Avatar: The Way of Water which was released on December 16, 2022, where she has portrayed the role of Ronal.
She, in the podcast, while discussing Titanic’s ending also said she has a better “understanding of water and how it behaves … than most”.
The reason being she has a lot of underwater shooting experience. Apart from that, she also has personal experience in paddle boarding, kite-surfing, scuba diving, wind-surfing, and swimming amongst other water activities.
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Kate Winslet after the release of Titanic in the year 1997 became an international star and is still appreciated for her role in the film.
