Kate’s character Rose was Leonardo DiCaprio’s love interest in the box office hit (Picture: Shutterstock)
Kate Winslet weighed in on the age-old debate surrounding Jack’s death in Titanic and shared her opinions on whether there was room for her character’s lover on the infamous floating door.
Her thoughts came after film director James Cameron revealed he had been carrying out scientific experiments to see if Jack, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, could have survived if Rose, Kate’s part, had moved over.
Declaring she was comparing the experience to water sports she had tried in the past, the actress was adamant she finally had her answer.
‘Yes, he could have fit on that door. But it would not have stayed afloat. It wouldn’t,’ she said.
In the same conversation, the 47-year-old told the Happy Sad Confused podcast: ‘I don’t f**king know. That’s the answer. I don’t f**king know.
‘Look, all I can tell you is, I do have a decent understanding of water and how it behaves.
Kate’s character survived the ship’s sinking by floating on a broken door (Picture: Shutterstock)
The young Hollywood stars played star-crossed lovers in James Cameron’s film (Picture: Shutterstock)
‘If you put two adults on a stand-up paddleboard, it becomes immediately, extremely unstable. That is for sure.
‘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 he would have fit, but it would have tipped and it would not have been a sustainable idea.’
The question plaguing the film’s critics was tried and tested by director James who made a film that proved it was not possible for Jack to live in the end.
The actress finally put her side of the debate to rest (Picture: PA)
He spoke to the Toronto Sun about his findings: ‘We took two stunt people who were the same body mass of Kate and Leo and we put sensors all over them and inside them and we put them in ice water.’
The Avatar filmmaker continued: ‘We tested to see whether they could have survived through a variety of methods and the answer was, there was no way they both could have survived.
‘Only one could survive.’
Later on in her chat with the podcast, Kate touched on rumours it had been the star’s weight that disallowed Leonardo’s character climb aboard the door following the cruiseliner’s crash with an iceberg.
She said: ‘They were so mean. I wasn’t even f**king fat.
‘If I could turn back the clock, I would have used my voice in a completely different way… I would have said to journalists… “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.”’
Kate was 22 years old when she shot the critically acclaimed romantic cult classic that told the story of the tragic Titanic wreck and its victims.
Hitting screens in 1998, the film quickly rose in popularity and bagged itself 14 Oscar nods of which cast and crew won 11 – including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Song for My Heart Will Go On.
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‘I have to be honest’.
