Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio took the world audience in awe since Titanic’s release in 1997. The Academy-winning actress gained instant stardom and has time and again, expressed her obsession with The Revenant actor since James Cameron’s cult classic.
As their fans wished to watch the on-screen couple together more often, it was only a decade after that the two actors reunited for Sam Mendes-directed Revolutionary Road. During the film’s promotional tour, Winslet couldn’t hush about her obsession with her co-star.
Kate Winslet’s Then-Husband Didn’t Mind Her On-Screen Intimacy With Leo
Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio once again thrilled their global fanbase as they reunited for her then-husband, Sam Mendes’ 2008 movie, Revolutionary Road, wherein the Titanic co-stars played the role of a couple, whose marriage was on the verge of collapsing.
During the promotional tour of the $76 million film, the Grammy-winning actress revealed how she wanted to spend all her time with Leonardo DiCaprio on set and revealed how he felt more like a husband than her real-life husband. She said:
“He feels more like my husband than my real husband. I have to say, I’ve been talking about him so much.”
The movie’s director, Mendes, who was her real-life husband back then, didn’t mind her doing “more intimate scenes with DiCaprio in the film”, which somewhere made her uncomfortable during the filming. Revolutionary Road included some rather “passionate pieces” between the co-stars.
For Leonardo DiCaprio, It Was All About A Joint-Oscar
The year Revolutionary Road was released, Kate Winslet’s received her first Oscar win with The Reader. Leo, on the other hand, won an Oscar almost a decade later for playing Hugh Glass, in the 2015 film The Revenant.
During the promotion of Sam Mendes’ movie, DiCaprio expressed that he wouldn’t have minded a joint-Oscar nomination with her real-life pal, Kate Winslet. He joked about Winslet’s feelings, “I’d just like to hang out with her.” For Winslet, it was more about Leo than an Oscar. She said:
“I feel I couldn’t have played April without Leo. I absolutely couldn’t have done it. So it would feel extremely strange if I was there without him. It just wouldn’t make sense somehow.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet starred as husband and wife, Frank and April Wheeler in the 2008 movie, which called for more intense emotions from the actors amid its dramatic storyline. The movie may not have landed them an Oscar, but it was nominated for three of them.
Revolutionary Road is available for streaming on Amazon Prime.
Source: Showbiz CheatSheet
