“Titanic” star Kate Winslet said recently stardom isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
During a recent interview with Net-a-Porter, the 48-year-old celebrity said she found her instant fame in the wake of the 1997 hit film “unpleasant.”
“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,” Winslet said. “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 life I did! Because, guess what, being famous was horrible.'”
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In the past, as Fox News reported, Winslet described Hollywood as “a big, scary place where everyone had to be thin and look a certain way.” She added, “I knew that I did not look that way or feel like I fit there, so if I was ever going to belong, I had to earn my place. And to me, I hadn’t earned it,” she said of the time.”
Winslet was just 22 years old when she starred opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in the blockbuster movie.
A lot, she explained, has changed since she first became a household name. Many of those changes, Winslet said, are good for her daughter, Mia Threapleton.
“It’s different now,” the famed star said. “Mia is very much her own person. [Young women now] know how to use their voice.”
Despite the difficulties of fame, though, Winslet said she is very grateful for “Titanic” and the opportunities it afforded her.
“I was grateful, of course,” she told the outlet. “I was in my early twenties, and I was able to get a flat. But I didn’t want to be followed literally feeding the ducks.”
Winslet said she’s grateful for “Titanic” and the “joy” the movie brings to so many people. But fame, she admitted, is “ridiculous.”
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