Kate Winslet Opens Up About Relationship With 'Titanic' Co-Star Leonardo DiCaprio: 'We Needed Each Other'
'We Needed Each Other'
Matt Bagwell— The Huffington Post UK
Kate Winslet has opened up about her relationship with her 'Titanic' co-star Leonardo DiCaprio and admitted that the pair 'needed each other' during the height of the film's record-breaking success.
But despite remaining close to the 'Wolf Of Wall Street' star, the British actress says that even though they fell in love on screen, there was never any romance between the pair when the cameras stopped rolling.
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Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio
“I think the reason that friendship works is because there was never any romantic thing,” she told Marie Claire magazine.
“It's so disappointing for people to hear that, because in the soap opera of the Kate and Leo story we fell in love at first sight and had a million snogs, but actually we never did.
“He always saw me as one of the boys. I've never really been a girly-girl," she added.
"We needed each other to lean on because we were very young and working all kinds of crazy bloody hours and it was a shock to the system.”
And Kate - who also went on to star alongside Leo in 'Revolutionary Road' in 2008 - said despite turning 40 around the same time, the pair definitely wouldn't be having a joint celebration.
"He's 40 this year and I'm 40 next – that's weird. Isn't that weird?" she said. "He wouldn’t have a joint party with me, he really wouldn't. Definitely not. He likes to have his moments.
“But also I don't think I'd want to have a joint party with him, more to the bloody point!
Read the full interview with Kate in the November issue of Marie Claire, out now. www.marieclaire.co.uk
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Stars Who Bared All For Their Art
Kate Winslet(01 of10)
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"Draw me like one of your French girls," Kate commanded a quivering Leonardo Di Caprio, clothed in nothing but a multi-million dollar blue diamond necklace. The English Rose would rip her bodice off throughout her stellar career – appearing au natural in a number of award-winning movies.
Sacha Baron Cohen(02 of10)
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Prone to bouts of regular nakedness, the comedian has no qualms about revealing a little flesh. But he might have revealed a little too much in Borat: crashing around a hotel room, wrestling his sweaty, equally nude, colleague Azamat, and with nothing more than a foot long black rectangle to hide his modesty.
Mark Wahlberg(03 of10)
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The one time Marky Mark began his impressive rise to the big time (steady ladies!) with this critically-acclaimed role as porn star Dirk Diggler. Even his days as a Calvin Klein underwear model couldn’t have prepared him for Diggler’s giant final-scene reveal.
Game Of Thrones - Entire Cast (04 of10)
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By the old Gods and the new, the cast of Game of Thrones are not shy about getting their furs off. Winter might be coming, but the men and women of Westeros are removing more layers than a wildling on Spring Break. From Emilia Clarke’s Daenerys to Kit Harrington’s Jon Snow - seven hells they’re all at it!
Jason Segel(05 of10)
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Getting dumped is never fun. Getting dumped in the buff is even worse. Segal kicked off Forgetting Sarah Marshall with its very best scene. Hilarious and heartbreaking by equal measure, it’s impossible to take your eyes off ‘it’. An image we won’t be forgetting in a hurry.
Michael Fassbender(06 of10)
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Fass proved he had absolutely nothing to be ‘shamed about during his soul-baring performance in Steve McQueen’s melancholic masterpiece. Wearing little more than a birthday suit and a look of permanent self-loathing, Fassbender became the talk of the town – with George Clooney even announcing his jealousy on-stage at the Golden Globes.
Richard Gere(07 of10)
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As the titular American Gigolo, Gere delivered titillation by the bucket-load. Often hailed as the first time a male film star was required to go fully commando, it was the committed actor himself who told the director to strike pants and trousers from the prop-list. What a pro!
Sharon Stone(08 of10)
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Gok Wan wouldn’t need to do much coaxing here. Sharon Stone’s femme fatale was happy to flaunt everything she had in order to get her way. And with one casual re-shuffle of her legs, Stone was catapulted straight into the A-List in one of the most talked about scenes of all time.
Bart Simpson(09 of10)
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The Bartman spent countless years telling people to ‘eat his shorts’, but no-one ever imagined we would see him without them. Not until The Simpsons Movie, in which a skateboarding Bart proudly flashed his animated yellow manhood. A million innocent childhood memories were ruined in an instant.
Shona Collins(10 of10)
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Marginally less well known than the others on the list perhaps – but we couldn’t fail to include Britain’s first ever Miss Naked Beauty! Not one to rest on her laurels, after being crowned by Gok, Shona petitioned Downing Street to include an hour a year on body confidence in the school curriculum – even meeting the appropriately named Ed Balls in person (…oh how we wish he was on this list too).