Kate Winslet: 'Celine Dion's Titanic Theme Song Makes Me Want To Throw Up'

Posted: 30/03/2012 12:40 Updated: 30/03/2012 12:44

Kate Winslet might be busy bigging up the 3D version of Titanic but she's not feeling quite as enthusiastic about the movie's theme song.

The actress has admitted that whenever she hears Celine Dion's mega hit My Heart Will Go On it makes her want to chunder. And there we were thinking we were the only ones.

She told MTV News: "I wish I could say, 'Oh listen, everybody! It's the Celine Dion song!' But I don't. I just have to sit there, you know, kind of straight-faced with a massive internal eye roll."

"No, I shouldn't say that," she added. "No, actually, I do feel like throwing up."

Amen to that.

She went on to explain that since the film's original release in 1997 she has become 'haunted' by its theme song.

"It's thrilling for people to surprise me with the Celine Dion song," she said. "I did a talk show recently in Italy and they actually had a live pianist who started gently playing the theme song.

"I was not even gently, rather severely, urged to go and sing it as though I had in fact sung it myself in the first place. It was like, 'No! I'm not going to do that.' They're like, 'Oh no, come on it will be funny.' No, it won't be funny. At all. And I'm not going to."

We won't tell Celine if you won't, Kate.

Meanwhile, Kate told Huff Post Entertainment at the Titanic 3D premiere that she "wouldn't look" at the intimate scenes between herself and Leonardo DiCaprio.

When asked about how she would feel seeing herself naked on the big screen, the 36-year-old said: "Terrible, wouldn't you? I'm not going to look, I'll be in the bar by that point."

Which would also mean she wouldn't have to sit through that song again either. Well, nothing like killing two birds with one stone, eh Kate?

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Kate Winslet might be busy bigging up the 3D version of Titanic but she's not feeling quite as enthusiastic about the movie's theme song. The actress has admitted that whenever she hears Celine...
Kate Winslet might be busy bigging up the 3D version of Titanic but she's not feeling quite as enthusiastic about the movie's theme song. The actress has admitted that whenever she hears Celine...
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JuliaOceania
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10:45 PM on 04/03/2012
Her nude scenes were beautiful in the original film, how unfortunate that she does not see herself that way.
10:23 PM on 04/01/2012
I had the very same feeling when watching her act!
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12:33 AM on 04/02/2012
Me too , he acting skills are bleh !. She wanted to sound like Selynne Deon . I could tell it was autotuned to death . it sounded awful. I detest all those whiney songs.
03:11 PM on 04/01/2012
Join the club, Kate.
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Ben Wilson
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11:35 AM on 04/01/2012
Amazing back in the day, but it was over played to death and quite possibly the no.1 cause of late on-set diabetes.
10:32 PM on 03/31/2012
Liking or not liking a song is a personal taste, like liking or not liking celery. There isn't a right or wrong. Personally, I think the song is beautiful but if you don't like it, don't listen to it. You'll be OK beside me Kate, I listen through my earphones so you won't hear it.
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JuliaOceania
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10:46 PM on 04/03/2012
Unfortunately to sit through the movie you have to sit through the song....
08:01 PM on 03/31/2012
Well I don't understand why she doesn't, millions of people do that bought the Celine record it did very well in the charts.

Anyway, what I want to know is, what she thought would be a better song?
'A life on the Ocean Waves' or 'We all live in a Titanic Submarine' or that tune from Mary Popins...bobing along on the briney something.
12:43 PM on 04/03/2012
I still think its a great song Kehlan Sutai Inigan, though I wouldn't play it to death, not that I hear it every day on the radio either, in fact I cant remember the last time I heard it, so, I do wonder why all the publicity from Kate; maybe she feels a bit unnoticed these days, she needn't be.
There is such a thing as the on off button, but being reminded of the millions she made from the film must be awful!..now that would not only make my eyes role but weep! Kate say the word and I'll play you another tune on my hair comb..how about Titanic?
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03:41 PM on 03/31/2012
ok fine she does not like the song fine. she has the right to say she did not like the song. but what i do not get is that she clearly does not like the film anymore. she says that she will not watch her being naked then why did you do it then. if it was not for this movie we would not know who kate was.
09:26 PM on 03/31/2012
Think you just answered your own question
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Kehlan Sutai Inigan
12:18 PM on 04/02/2012
Well, where does she say she doesnt like the film? I'd guess with the song its simply shes heard it so many thousand times she's just sick of it, we all get like that with cewrtain peices of music that we hear too often.... She's also embarrased by the love scenes and her own nakedness, I can understand that too, it must be a bit wierd watching yourself naked on the big screen. that doesnt mean she doesnt like the film or is not grateful for the opportunities it gave her.
03:05 PM on 03/31/2012
this all stems from celine dion wearing 'the heart of the ocean' necklace at the original premiere,kate said at the time that she felt that she should of been wearing it.she is obviously still annoyed by this
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JuliaOceania
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10:48 PM on 04/03/2012
Actually, if I remember correctly, she thought the actress that played Old Rose should have worn it.
12:56 PM on 03/31/2012
I bet you Kate and also Leonardo di Caprio were grateful when they got the parts. Well, they were not famous then and they should show some gratitude for the film that made them. I think these two are just jealous because everybody else made vast fortunes out of the film and they didn't. Celine and James Cameron included. They have another bite of the cherry with this 3D version and Kate and Leonardo are dragging their feet to promote it.
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JuliaOceania
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10:51 PM on 04/03/2012
Both of them are very talented people. I wonder how anxious you would be to promote a film that you put behind you a decade and a half ago? DiCaprio had many roles before this one, and many since. He actually did not want to be a heart throb, he wanted to be a character actor. And that is what he is, and he is a good one.
12:40 PM on 03/31/2012
I don't have a lot of time for Kate Winslet but I am in agreement with her on this one. Hearing that song just makes my teeth ache!
11:51 AM on 03/31/2012
She made her money from the movie and now she is embarrassed to say she took part in it.

Typical actor/celebrity,

I never rated the movie titanic, But liked the celine song. Not may modern singers can punch it out like that now. Most have to rely on studio magic to make them sound good. BRING BACK THE DAYS OF proper singers and vocals.
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JuliaOceania
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10:54 PM on 04/03/2012
Wow, way to misrepresent what Kate Winslet said... she did not say she was embarrassed of her part in the film. She said she was embarrassed of the nude scenes and she couldn't watch them... those are entirely different statements

As far as Celine Dion, she has a good instrument, but that is what her voice is, an instrument that is technically excellent. I would rather listen to almost any other singer you could name, and I hate the the song.
10:01 AM on 03/31/2012
She is haunted by the song ok I may understand that. I am sure she hears it a lot whenever she is asked to do something, the song is associated with her. I do not see the other thing about the movie haunting her the MONEY or is that ok. She should take the song and the money together as without the song there would not be as much money.
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John Denson
10:01 AM on 03/31/2012
Me, too, Kate !!!!
09:54 AM on 03/31/2012
Typical - makes money and fame out of the film and then turns on it after so many years.
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John Denson
10:02 AM on 03/31/2012
You don't get it .....
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JuliaOceania
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10:55 PM on 04/03/2012
That would take being able to sit and read through an an entire article... it is much easier to snark on someone for what you think they may have said instead of actually reading what they said....
09:34 AM on 03/31/2012
Personally, I love the song, but as we all have different tastes when it comes to music, I can understand why some folk don't like it.
I agree with others who say Gloria Stuart, who played "old Rose" was brilliant in this movie. I even had a tear in my eye when she passed away at the end.