If everyone has ever dreamed of being Rose in
Titanic
, Kate Winslet would almost regret the consequences.
In an interview with PORTER magazine, the Oscar-winning actress talks about the other side of the coin of very great and very sudden fame, and the way others see her body as a young woman.
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“I had to look a certain way.”
Water has flowed under the bridge since the filming of the film in 1997. Now aged 48, the actress looks back on the post-
Titanic
period , a life full of paparazzi and injunctions.
I felt like I had to look a certain way, or be a certain thing, and because media intrusion was so great at that time, my life was quite unpleasant,” she said in her interview.
Kate Winslet remains aware of the privilege that James Cameron's film gave her: “I was grateful, of course.
I was in my twenties and I was able to get an apartment.
But I didn’t want people to literally follow me feeding the ducks,” she adds.
James Cameron and Kate Winslet at the Jon Furniss/WireImage premiere
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A quiet life
Since
Titanic
, Kate Winslet has never abandoned film sets, but has sometimes favored smaller productions.
“Journalists always said, 'After
Titanic
, you could have done anything and yet you chose to do these little things,'” she says in an interview with PORTER.
Today, she says she experiences fame in a “lighter” way and finds it all almost “ridiculous”.
Currently in a period of rest between two shoots, she lives a quieter life, which she has long dreamed of: “I have a family.
It's my life.
A dream morning is getting up at 6am, taking the dogs out, then sitting down with a cup of tea and reading one of my cookbooks.”
Kate Winslet and her daughter Mia at the Bafta ceremony in London on May 14, 2023 Iona Wolff / BAFTA via Getty Images