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Kate Winslet condemns 'Titanic' body-shaming: 'Why were they so mean to me?'

Kate Winslet is so over the capital-D Discourse surrounding the infamous floating-door scene from "Titanic." On Friday's episode of the "Happy Sad Confused" podcast, the Oscar-winning actor addressed the ongoing debate over whether her "Titanic" co-star, Leonardo DiCaprio, could have fit beside her on the scrap of driftwood that saves her character Rose's life at the end of the 1997 film. For ...
Kate Winslet attends the world premiere of James Cameron's "Avatar: The Way of Water" at the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square on Dec. 6, 2022, in London, England.

Kate Winslet is so over the capital-D Discourse surrounding the infamous floating-door scene from "Titanic."

On Friday's episode of the "Happy Sad Confused" podcast, the Oscar-winning actor addressed the ongoing debate over whether her "Titanic" co-star, Leonardo DiCaprio, could have fit beside her on the scrap of driftwood that saves her character Rose's life at the end of the 1997 film.

For years, a vocal legion of "Titanic" conspiracy theorists have insisted that DiCaprio's

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