How ‘Titanic’ taught Kate Winslet to look ahead in life

20 years on and the actor is still 'on top of the world'

It has been 20 years since Titanic first released but Kate Winslet is still on top of the world.

The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind star opened up about how shooting Titanic helped prepare her for this role. "I have to be honest… I think doing Titanic really taught me a lot about thinking ahead. When you read the script, Jack and Rose run through the flooded dining room. You have to know that's gonna be five days of shooting, because it was five days of shooting," Winslet told Entertainment Tonight. "So it certainly helped me when I was reading this script. You just have to be very realistic about what was going to be required of us as actors."

The British acting powerhouse also spoke about her upcoming film Mountains Between Us, which opens on October 6 and also stars actor Idris Elba. "I've never had so much luggage in my life, you know, the warm weather clothing... the cold weather clothing and the boots and the scarves. I would have to allow 40 minutes every day just to make sure I had the layers right, the hotpacks on, and really be prepared,” Winslet recalled. "I would go up the mountain with a little backpack of my own survival stuff and that usually included soup for me and soup for Idris.”



While Winslet let co-star Leonardo DiCaprio take an ice bath at the end of Titanic, for this movie, she insisted it be her who plunged into ice cold water for a scene where her character falls through thin ice. "It was going to be dangerous. It was going to be extremely cold, so I did know," she said. "But at the same time, nothing can fully prepare you for how cold [it is]."

The Mountains Between Us follows the story of two strangers stranded on a mountain after a tragic plane crash and how they work together to endure the extreme elements of the remote, snow-laden terrain.

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