Titanic's Kate Winslet And Leonardo DiCaprio Only Had 15 Minutes To Nail That Iconic First Kiss
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Filmmaker James Cameron meticulously planned out the now “Titanic” kiss scene between Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Rose (Kate Winslet) on the bow of the ship, but the cast and crew only ended up with 15 minutes to capture the magic on film. “We choreographed the kiss in rehearsal weeks ahead of time,” Cameron said in an interview with GQ.

“Like a football play on lips, right?” Cameron explained the choreography practiced between DiCaprio and Winslet in the same interview. “But they’re both so analytical, they loved that. So, we knew what we were going to do.” Cameron also explained that he exhausted almost all of the production’s shooting schedule outdoors, so when it came time for the kiss to be attempted again, everyone was in a race against “the elements” to film the scene. “We scheduled actually for the first day of our outdoor, in case we had a nice sunset, and it never looked good,” the director said.

With one final chance to capture the pivotal, romantic moment between Jack and Rose, Cameron battled the weather. “It was overcast,” he said in the same interview. However, with about 15 minutes to go until the sun disappeared beyond the horizon, Cameron caught a break. “‘Guys, we got a sunset!'” The director remembered screaming out the good news on set, and everyone raced to reach the bow of the ship. Once Winslet got into place, she didn’t need a second more to prepare, according to Cameron.

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