Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet are still haunted by the monster of a love story they once created on screen. Their on-screen chemistry on Titanic still reigns as one of the most enchanting love stories ever witnessed by the world. All thanks to the two actors for doing a good job, yet, the success came with a price, as the public relentlessly probed into their personal lives, desperately poking them to uncover if they had a real-life connection similar to their fictional characters.
As a result, the constant scrutiny from the public and media led the actors, DiCaprio and Winslet hesitant before taking on a project to collaborate yet again. Despite their strong platonic friendship, DiCaprio once confessed he had to mull over the fact a thousand times before coming to a conclusion.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet Were Scared to Collaborate Again After the Success Of Titanic
After a certain 1997 movie took the actors Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio to great heights of fame and success, the hit duo was not seen on screen together until 2008 for the Sam Mendes movie Revolutionary Road. Thus, while promoting their movie, the iconic pair were bombarded with questions pestering them to explain why it took them so long to collaborate again. Thus, in a chat with Entertainment Weekly, both DiCaprio and Winslet set the record straight once and for all.
The Shutter Island actor revealed there were two primary reasons that prevented them from coming together on the big screen after the 1997 hit, the first being the endless scrutiny and judgment about their personal relationship with each other. And secondly, the pair were certain nothing in the world could top what Titanic did for them. Thus they both avoided love stories at all costs. Therefore as soon as the two were offered a project other than a love story, they both jumped on it. DiCaprio said,
“Over the years, I would find myself stopping and saying, ‘I don’t know if we should do this again—And then I’d think, ‘What are you, an idiot? Why wouldn’t I want to work with the best actress of her generation? Am I going to be prejudiced against a project just because Kate’s in it?’ I think we both had been actively looking for something else to do together, but we fundamentally knew that we couldn’t tread on any sort of similar territory.”
But when the two finally came together in Revolutionary Road, they yet again proved why the world deemed them the perfect couple, to begin with.
Did Leonardo Dicaprio and Kate Winslet Ever Date?
The actress once confessed to Rolling Stone about how the speculations affect her. Although very good friends, their relationship never shaped into something more than that. And according to the actress that is exactly why their friendship works. Winslet said,
“Just the notion of that was insane. It would have been absolutely like incest. I have the relationship with Leo that all the women in the world would envy,”
She then also talked about her relationship with DiCaprio in a Complex interview saying,
“I think the reason that friendship works is because there was never any romantic thing. 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,”
According to her, although the two never were lovers the love, respect, and unconditional support, they both have for each other makes their friendship stronger than any other relationship they have in their life.
Source: Entertainment Weekly
