" was on the freeway, and he said, 'I'm going somewhere.' And I think he pulled over, and I said, 'I just have to do this, and you are really mad if you don't cast me. She got James' number from her agent, and then called the director on his car phone (Old school…). In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Kate explained that after she read the Titanic screenplay, "I closed the script, wept floods of tears and said, 'Right, I've absolutely got to be a part of this. Last month, while at the Los Angeles premiere of 'Divergent,' a fan handed Winslet a copy of the nude portrait to sign while on the red carpet. So she really had to work hard to get James on board with the idea of her playing posh but loveable Rose DeWitt Bukater. Apr 3, 2014, 03:36 PM EDT Updated Seventeen years have passed since Jack drew that naked portrait of Rose in 'Titanic,' but the scene still haunts Kate Winslet.
But boy are we glad it all worked out in the end.īack when Titanic was being cast in 1996, Kate, who's now a multi-award-winning actress, was still a small-scale star who had only been on the Hollywood scene for a couple of years (her first film appearance was in 1994's Heavenly Creatures). While her character Rose DeWitt Bukater was an American teenager living in the early 20th century, Winslet herself was born in Reading, in Great Britain. Kate – who was a fairly unknown actress at the time – had to go to pretty extreme lengths to convince the film's director, James Cameron, to give her the role. There are a few things that Kate Winslet regrets about her Titanic performance.A lot of how she really feels about her iconic portrayal comes down to the accent she used. Can you imagine a Titanic without Kate Winslet as Rose? Utter madness, right? Well actually it very nearly didn't happen that way.
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