FRIENDS NOT FOES
“I actually felt a bit beaten up by it, truth be told,”Winslet said of the online trolling she suffered after rising to fame post-Titanic. To make matters worse, “This s--t went on for years.” It was Cameron who quietly supported her.
After the record-breaking success of Titanic in 1997, whispers circulated that film’s leading lady, Kate Winslet, was at loggerheads with its director, James Cameron.
In the film, she played Rose, a lovelorn passenger in the fictional movie set on the real-life ocean liner, Titanic. Cameron was – and still is – fiercely meticulous, while at the time, Winslet was a newcomer to the acting world.
Still, it was a role she was desperate to land. “She even sent me a single rose and said, ‘I have…
