The blockbuster hit theaters on Dec. 19, 1997. Since then, fans have debated whether Jack could have survived on the makeshift raft.
Winslet knows a bit about water, saying she spends a lot of time paddle boarding, surfing , scuba diving and cold water swimming. And if you put two adults on a stand-up paddleboard, she says, it becomes"immediately extremely unstable."
"I have to be honest, right," she said."I actually don't believe that we would have survived if we had both gotten on that door. I think he could have fit but it would have tipped and it would not have been a sustainable idea." The solution may not have been sustainable, but the movie — which was the first to gross $1 billion dollars — sure has staying power.that two decades on, what makes the movie as timely as ever is that"it's a slow-moving disaster of immodesty."
"The people who built the ship cannot see, will not see its flaws. By the time they figure it out, it's too late," she told NPR's."There's no miracle. There aren't enough lifeboats. Twenty years later, all we can do is wonder: Rose, couldn't you have fit two people on a floating door?""Maybe ... maybe ... after 25 years, I won't have to deal with this anymore," he said with a laugh.
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