James Cameron Says Kate Winslet Was ‘Traumatized’ By ‘Titanic’

James Cameron and Kate Winslet attend the photocall for "Avatar: The Way of Water" in London on Sunday.
James Cameron and Kate Winslet attend the photocall for "Avatar: The Means of Water" in London on Sunday.
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Kate Winslet could have skilled a sinking feeling on the set of “Titanic” — as a result of in response to director James Cameron, she could have been in somewhat over her head.

“I feel Kate got here out of ‘Titanic’ a bit traumatized by the dimensions of the manufacturing and her accountability inside it,” Cameron informed Radio Instances (through HuffPost U.Okay.) of his 1997 smash hit movie that propelled a then 22-year-old Winslet into worldwide fame.

Winslet will lastly seem in one other certainly one of Cameron’s motion pictures 25 years after “Titanic” in his upcoming “Avatar” sequel. She is going to play Ronal, a matriarch of the oceanic Na’vi clan, Metkayina.

“We’ve each been keen over time to work collectively once more, to see what the opposite is about at this level in our lives and careers,” Cameron mentioned.

Winslet, Cameron and Leonardo DiCaprio in 1998.
Winslet, Cameron and Leonardo DiCaprio in 1998.
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He then famous that the “Mare of Easttown” star’s vitality has modified an entire lot for the reason that Nineteen Nineties.

“She’s very massive and in cost on set,” Cameron mentioned. “You’d swear she was producing the movie!”

Winslet was open about Cameron’s depth whereas selling “Titanic.” She informed reporters on the time that Cameron “has a mood such as you wouldn’t imagine” and that “there have been instances I used to be genuinely afraid of him.”

She additionally spoke of 90-hour work weeks and contracting hypothermia after lengthy intervals spent filming in freezing waters.

“You’d must pay me some huge cash to work with Jim once more,” she mentioned on the time.

Winslet as Rose in “Titanic.”
Winslet as Rose in “Titanic.”
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But, the “Mare of Easttown” star just lately informed The Telegraph that whereas the Titanic set was “powerful,” Cameron is a “genius” and appears a bit extra laid again these days.

“I beloved doing Avatar with Jim — he's way more calm now. In these days there was no area for him to say, ‘It won't work.’ He needed to make it work,” Winslet mentioned. “There have been all these conversations about this enormous movie, ‘Titanic.’ I can’t think about the strain. As we become old we learn to say, ‘I made a mistake.’ All of us get higher at that, don’t we?”

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