Kate Winslet

Kate Winslet talks reuniting with "Titanic" director James Cameron for "Avatar: The Way of Water," playing aquatic Na'vi leader Ronal.

"I was just there to play the role as best I could, and I always trusted Jim's vision for it without questions. But Winslet says she has always had faith in Cameron, even as a 21-year-old relative newcomer shooting "Titanic," which was plagued by budget overruns and delays. But it's really fun for (the kids) to see that stuff. God, how cool!' " Winslet says. "Poor Tom," Winslet says with a grin. The grueling work paid off for Winslet, who held her breath underwater for seven minutes and 14 seconds while filming "Avatar 2." Everyone had a personal best." Because that's who she is: a mother and a leader living with integrity and truth, and also physically very robust and resilient." "My husband (theater director Jim Simpson) and I both did 6 ½ minutes, which was astonishing to us and our teacher, Kirk Krack, who teaches the Navy SEALs. "And he certainly knows how far I can be pushed and the challenges that I'm happy to meet, so it made sense to me why he would consider that I might be interested in Ronal. It's a sport, it's a skill, and your body adjusts to be able to do that thing. In the eye-popping sci-fi epic, Winslet plays the sagacious Ronal, an alien queen and healer who leads the oceanic Metkayina clan.

Amid the 25th anniversary of 'Titanic,' actress Kate Winslet addressed comments made about her weight regarding one of the film's classic scenes.

“It’s such an irresponsible thing to do and it feeds directly into young women aspiring to ideas of perfection that don’t exist,” Winslet continued. … I would have said to journalists, I would have responded, I would have said, ‘Don’t you dare treat me like this. And in response to the frequently asked question regarding whether Jack could have squeezed onto the door in Titanic, the actress said, “Once and for all, he could have fit on that door but it would not have stayed afloat,” and that it was not a “sustainable idea.” 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.’ That’s bullying, you know, and actually borderline abusive, I would say.” [motivational speech to children in London](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/kate-winslet-bullied-weight-blubber-speech-fat-shamed-988237/), she said, “They called me Blubber.” She added that the scrutiny continued when she decided to pursue acting and that casting agents would tell her she wasn’t what they were looking for: “I was even told that I might be lucky in my acting if I was happy to settle for the fat-girl parts.” I definitely think we can do better with that stuff.” The actress, who won an Oscar for The Reader, told Josh Horowitz that she believes comments on bodies and how women look are “getting better,” but that “we’ve still got such a ways to go.” [Happy, Sad, Confused](https://youtu.be/L22JpW6an-o) podcast, the [Avatar: The Way of Water](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/avatar-the-way-of-water/) actress told Josh Horowitz that “Apparently I was too fat,” in reference to people commenting at the time that her character’s weight was the reason DiCaprio couldn’t get on the door. “If I could turn back the clock, I would have used my voice in a completely different way. I wasn’t even fucking fat,” she said. [Kate Winslet](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/kate-winslet/) recently reflected on the moment where her character, Rose DeWitt Bukater, is afloat on a door as [Leonardo DiCaprio](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/leonardo-dicaprio/)’s character, Jack Dawson, sinks to his death, and also addressed the response she got from viewers regarding the memorable scene. [Titanic](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/titanic/) has led to decades of debate.

After 13 years, theaters around the world welcome the premiere of Avatar: The Way of Water, the continuation of a story that began in 2009 courtesy of James ...

The time she managed to stay underwater was no less than seven minutes and 15 seconds. As she did more than 20 years ago under the direction of James Cameron in Titanic, Kate Winslet was surrounded by water on the film set. One of those making her debut in the franchise is Kate Winslet, who in an interview revealed that she almost died during filming.

Happy Sad Confused podcast host Josh Horowitz showed Winslet a video of him asking this question to Leonardo DiCaprio a few years ago, to which DiCaprio ...

Kate Winslet once indicated she might never work with James Cameron again, but things are different now.

[20 years since James Cameron and Kate Winslet made a movie together](https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2561810/what-the-titanic-cast-is-doing-now) apparently doesn’t have anything to do with any desire from either party not to work together. Kate Winslet spoke at the time about the physical toll the movie took on her, as well as the emotional toll, as James Cameron reportedly did his share of yelling at people on set. The actress said… While we don’t know how much she was paid to be in Avatar: The Way of Water, the actress says a lot has changed since those words. At the time the actress made it clear that she had little interest in working with Cameron again, but she tells [until it was dethroned by Avatar](https://www.cinemablend.com/interviews/how-kate-winslet-felt-when-james-camerons-avatar-topped-titanic-at-the-global-box-office).

Kate Winslet, who played Rose DeWitt in the classic romance film Titanic alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, has revealed once and for all what would have happened ...

"The film is about death and separation; he had to die. Rose could have saved Jack, but the point was for him to die, and now fans know what Wiinslet thinks. "So you heard it here for the first time. It would not have been a sustainable idea. That's the answer, is that I I don't f---ing know!" "If you put two adults on a standup paddle board it becomes immediately unstable."

"I actually don't believe that we would have survived if we had both gotten on that door," she said on the "Happy, Sad, Confused" podcast.

Kate Winslet pushed her limits for the epic sci-fi movie Avatar: The Way of Water as she performed an incredible stunt of holding her breath while filming ...

And I was like, ‘Come on!’ So I smashed my own record by a minute,” she added. I wanted to break my own record, which was already six minutes and 14 seconds. Winslet added, “Straight away I wanted to know my time.

Kate Winslet performed an incredible stunt for the epic sci-fi movie Avatar: The Way of Water of holding her breath while filming an underwater scene.

Winslet reunited with Cameron for the latest Avatar installment. I wanted to break my own record, which was already six minutes and 14 seconds. Winslet added, “Straight away I wanted to know my time.

'Avatar: The Way of Water' star Kate Winslet opened up about her reunion with James Cameron after 25 years of Titanic.

So yeah, that's probably the main difference, quite honestly is that, hopefully just, as storytellers, we've become a little more evolved and interesting, hopefully. While Sam and Zoe reprise their role from the first part, the Titanic star is the new entry who plays Ronal, the wife of Tonowari, the Metkayina chief in Avatar 2. The film stars an ensemble cast, including Kate Winslet, Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña and more.

Kate Winslet used her paddleboarding experience to explain whether Jack could've fit on the 'Titanic' door: 'Look, all I can tell you is, I do have a decent ...

"I have to be honest: I actually don't believe that we would have survived if we had both gotten on that door," she said. "I just wish there weren't quite so many comments on the physical form of actresses," she said. "If I could turn back the clock, I would have used my voice in a completely different way… "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. I definitely think we can do better with that stuff." She explained on a 2021 episode of the "So, you heard it here for the first time," Winslet concluded. "If you put two adults on a stand-up paddleboard, it becomes immediately, extremely unstable. "Yes, he could have fit on that door, but it would not have stayed afloat. I don't f---ing know," she revealed, exasperated, on a recent episode of the "I don't f---ing know. "Look, all I can tell you is, I do have a decent understanding of water and how it behaves," Winslet said, noting that she has experience paddleboarding, scuba diving, and kitesurfing.

"I wasn't even f—ing fat," Kate Winslet said on the Happy Sad Confused podcast as she got candid about the body-shaming she faced during her breakout ...

and it would not have been a sustainable idea." "So, you heard it here for the first time. The answer is, I don't f—ing know," she said, before ultimately determining the answer. "I remember just thinking, 'Okay, well, this is horrible, and I hope it passes,'" she continued. "They would comment on my size, they'd estimate what I weighed, they'd print the supposed diet I was on," Winslet recalled. 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.' That's bullying, you know, and actually borderline abusive, I would say."

Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet starred as forbidden lovers Jack and Rose in 1997's 'Titanic' — see cast's reaction to movie ending.

“We never predicted that it would be what it was, and I said, 'OK, slow down. She added: “I have to be honest: I actually don't believe that we would have survived if we had both gotten on that door. I knew there was an expectation of me to do a certain thing at that point, and I knew I had to get back to what my intentions were from the onset.” “We never predicted that it would be what it was, and I said, ‘OK, slow down. I loved her as an actress and she said, ‘Let’s do this together, we can do this.’ We did it, and it became something that we could’ve never foreseen,” DiCaprio recalled toDeadlinein February 2016. “We have done a scientific study to put this whole thing to rest and drive a stake through its heart once and for all,” the acclaimed director told theToronto Sunin December 2022.

The Oscar winner spoke on a recent podcast about hurtful comments about her weight during the 1997 film "Titanic."