Kate Winslet has spoken about how she coped with “appalling” reporting and intrusion by the media after rising to fame as Rose in James Cameron’s 1997 epic, Titanic.
The actor and director said she was followed by paparazzi and had her phone tapped, with people even looking through her bins and asking her local shops what she bought to “try and figure out what diet I was on or wasn’t on”.
It was horrific,” she said. Years later, she experienced further intrusion during a marriage breakdown, adding the ways she dealt with the media attention were “a good meal, a shared conversation, a nice cup of coffee, a bit of Radiohead and a good poo.
Winslet claimed that she wasn’t in “perfect shape” mentally regarding her figure when she was filming Titanic in her early 20s. She claimed that although the movie’s production was terrific, her world was “totally turned upside down” when it was released in theatres.
She recalled being called “blubber” by her elementary school classmates and subsequently being advised by a drama teacher that she would have to “settle for the fat girl parts” if she wanted to be an actor. She said that she had been subjected to disparaging remarks about her appearance from an early age.
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