Kate Winslet has recently shared an emotional account of her son's first experience watching Titanic. The 48-year-old actress opened up about her youngest child, 10-year-old Bear, whom she shares with her husband Edward Abel Smith, finally seeing the iconic film.
“My youngest has seen Titanic, he saw it last year,” she told E! News.
“He cried a lot, and he kept having to pause it, and he was very upset.”
She mentioned that her children haven't seen her entire filmography, but her two oldest, Mia and Joe—whom she shares with exes Jim Threapleton and Sam Mendes particularly love one movie.
“My older two, who are nearly 24 and 21 they love Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Yeah, that's a big favorite for them," she said.
“They'll just sort of say, ‘Oh, I saw Eternal Sunshine the other day,’” Kate explained. “I'm like, ‘What you watched it without me?’”
“I think Eternal Sunshine was one of those films that seemed to really capture people's minds, sort of a Zeitgeist thing that happened around that film. And so I think I always thought I would want to watch it with my kids one day. But they beat me to it.”
In a cover story for PORTER, earlier this year, Winslet opened up about struggling with the fame she experienced after Titanic, which came out when she was 22.
“I felt like I had to look a certain way, or be a certain thing, and because media intrusion was so significant at that time, my life was quite unpleasant,” she said.
She went on to recall how she was questioned for her career choices after starring in the epic romance-tragedy film: “Journalists would always say, ‘After Titanic, you could have done anything and yet you chose to do these small things’ and I was like, ‘Yeah, you bet your fuckin’ life I did! Because, guess what, being famous was horrible.”
Winslet reiterated that, though she was “grateful” for the film’s success, especially given she was “able to get a flat” in her early 20s, she still “didn’t want to be followed literally feeding the ducks.”