Kate Winslet.Photo:Yulia Gorbachenko
Yulia Gorbachenko
For all the notorietyTitanicbroughtKate Winslet, there are parts of it she could have done without.
TheRegimestar, 48, opened up toPORTERfor the magazine’s latest cover story, recalling the discomfort she felt about her fame after the release ofJames Cameron’s 1997 romance-tragedy epic.
“I felt like I had to look a certain way, or be a certain thing, and because media intrusion was so significant at that time, my life was quite unpleasant,” Winslet admitted.
She added, “Journalists would always say, ‘AfterTitanic, you could have done anything and yet you chose to do these small things’ … and I was like, ‘Yeah, you bet your life I did! Because, guess what,being famous was horrible.' "
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Despite the unpleasant aspects, “It’s not a burden, any of it,” said theAcademy Awardwinner.
“[Titanic] continues to bring people huge amounts of joy,” she continued, joking, “The only time I am like, ‘Oh God, hide,' is if we are on a boat somewhere.”
Kate Winslet.Yulia Gorbachenko
“It was like night and day from one day to the next,” she said of her sudden fame. “Also, I was subject to quite a lot of also personal physical scrutiny, and criticized quite a lot — the British press were actually quite unkind to me.”
“Ifelt quite bullied, if I’m honest,” Winslet continued. “I remember just thinking, ‘Okay, well, this is horrible and I hope it passes.’ And it did definitely pass but it also made me realize that if that’s what being famous was, I was not ready to be famous, thank you. No, definitely not.”
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet inTitanic(1997).CBS via Getty
CBS via Getty
More recently, Winslet reflected on working with onscreen love interestLeonardo DiCaprioon the set ofTitanic. (The two wouldgo on to remain close friendsover the years.)
“Once I started working with Leo, we were able to kind of find our own rhythm. And it’s amazing to kind of look back and think about it all over again,” she toldEntertainment Tonight, ahead of the re-release of the film in 4K Ultra HD.
“He was this kind of mess of long, skinny, uncoordinated limbs. And he was just very free with himself, and he had this effervescentenergy that was really magnetic,” she continued. “And I remember thinking, ‘Oh, this is gonna be fun. We’re definitely gonna get along.’ "
“And we just really did. We just really did,” Winslet added.
source: people.com
