Mystery is a good thing when it comes to movies and how they are made. We don’t want to know how scenes were shot and all the tricks of the trade. Ok, ok – sometimes we want to know, but this time we didn’t. We didn’t ever want to know anything (more than we do) about THAT SCENE in Titanic.
We’ve heard enough debate over it and so anything else that was going to be added, we were preemptively over it. That is until Kate Winslet started talking about the filming of the door scene and we paid attention. What can we say, we can be persuaded.
*shrugs shoulders*
Winslet has been doing some press lately, as one does when they have a movie coming out. She was on the Happy Sad Confused podcast and spoke about the scene at the end, with Rose on the door and Jack sinking into the ocean.
“That was quite an awkward tank, that one, because — to burst a bubble, it was waist-height, that tank,” Winslet revealed, spoiling movie magic for us all. “Leo is, I’m afraid, kneeling down on the bottom of the tank.”
But this tank that they filmed in allowed for ease of filming and in another thing that some people may consider TMI. What is that? The ease of climbing on and off the door to go to the bathroom.
“I was regularly like, ‘Can I just go for a pee?'” she said. “And then I’d get up, get off the door, walk to the edge of the tank that was 20 feet away, and I’d literally have to fling my leg over and climb out of the tank and go for a pee, and then come back and crawl back on the door again. I know, it’s terrible to admit these things.”
Hey, water makes you have to go. We get it. Never wanted to know about it, but we get it.
And now, we’ll never look at the door scene in Titanic the same again. Thanks Kate.
