14 DAY TRIAL // With the 3D re-release of James Cameron’s “Titanic,” Kate Winslet, the lead female star of the film, has been doing lots of interviews to promote it. During one with MTV, she opened up a bit about how she felt about Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On,” the theme song.
Video of the interview is below.
Asked to describe a bit her post-“Titanic” experience, the stunning actress reveals that it was definitely not what she’d expected because it was quite “haunting.”
The theme song played a big part in that.
“[I feel] like throwing up. No, I shouldn't say that. No, actually, I do feel like throwing up,” Kate says when asked how she feels about the once-inescapable song.
“I wish I could say, 'Oh listen, everybody! It's the Celine Dion song!' But I don't. I just have to sit there, you know, kind of straight-faced with a massive internal eye roll,” she continues.
She doesn’t mean the song is bad or that she has anything personal against it, she explains. However, shortly after the film came out, generating never before seen frenzy, people used to act around her, around Winslet, as if she was the one performing the song in the first place.
“I did a talk show recently in Italy and they actually had a live pianist who started gently playing the theme song. I was not even gently, rather severely, urged to go and sing it as though I had in fact sung it myself in the first place,” she recalls.
The same goes for Titanic related jokes, the actress goes on to say.
For years, she couldn’t get on a boat without hearing at least one joke about the film, to the point where it long stopped being even remotely funny.
With all that, Kate is happy the film is being re-released in 3D. For starters, she explains, it’s must bigger now, as surprising as that might sound.
Secondly, it will allow younger audiences to connect to a film they probably didn’t bother seeing before.
“What's negative about it? Really, nothing at all. It's very different and much more present. It's bigger — if you can believe that — but it is and you really do feel like you're in it,” she says.