(Fine, I Made Up the Last Part.) After Titanic, I kind of thought Leonardo DiCaprio would marry Kate Winslet. He WAS at her wedding, which was attended by only a very few close friends and family members, but he wasn't the groom. (Kate married fellow Brit Ned Rocknroll instead.)
"I think the reason that friendship works is because there was never any romantic thing," she later told Marie Claire. "It's so disappointing for people to hear that because, in the soap opera of the Kate and Leo story, we fell in love at first sight and had a million snogs, but we never did."
The film won eleven Academy Awards—tied for most for a single film—including Best Picture, and earned the 22-year-old Winslet a nomination for Best Actress. She also received Golden Globe and SAG nominations for Best Actress. Winslet did not view Titanic as a platform for larger salaries.
Rose Was 17-Years-Old In Titanic - And Kate Winslet Was 20
Rose was 17 years old during the Titanic's real-life doomed maiden voyage in 1912. Despite playing a teenager, actress Kate Winslet was 20 when filming began in 1996.
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How old were Jack and Rose in Titanic in real life?
According to James Cameron's "Titanic" Wiki, Jack was 20 years old during the film's events. Born November 11, 1974, in Los Angeles, the eternally-youthful-looking DiCaprio was 23 when "Titanic" was first released in theaters in December 1997. Winslet, on the other hand, was 22 when the film premiered.
The model and actress was considered to be “the love of his life” according to The New York Daily News. DiCaprio dated Zang for fifteen months and took her as his date to the Romeo + Juliet premiere.
Kate and her husband Edward are still happily married. The couple have now been together for over ten years. Prior to her marriage with Edward, Kate was previously married twice, firstly to assistant director Jim Threapleton, and then to Skyfall and 1917 director Sam Mendes.
"It's so disappointing for people to hear that, because in the soap opera of the Kate and Leo story we fell in love at first sight and had a million snogs, but actually we never did.
What was the age difference between Leo and Kate in Titanic?
Leonardo was just 22 years old at the time, and Kate a year younger at 21, when they were cast in the lead roles for a film which would throw them into global stardom. The pair instantly formed a connection as they messed around on the film set.
DiCaprio, 21 years old at the time, was brought to Cameron's attention by casting director Mali Finn. Initially, he did not want the role and refused to read his first romantic scene. Cameron said, "He read it once, then started goofing around, and I could never get him to focus on it again.
He is the only child of Irmelin Indenbirken, a legal secretary, and George DiCaprio, an underground comix artist and distributor; they met while attending college and moved to Los Angeles after graduating. His mother is German and his father is of Italian and German descent.
That DiCaprio first met Camila Morrone when he was 35 and she was 12 doesn't come up nearly as often as it should. (They were introduced by Morrone's stepfather, Al Pacino.) That many of the women DiCaprio dates aren't old enough to legally drink when he first meets them has also been under-discussed.
Recently, Sydney revealed that she had a crush on her Once Upon A Time In Hollywood co-star, Leonardo DiCaprio. During an interview with IMDb, the Anyone But You star stated that Leonardo DiCaprio was her first movie star crush when she saw him for the first time in a movie.
The Oscar-winning actors starred in the classic film early in their careers and have remained close friends since they played Jack and Rose in James Cameron's romance drama.
Neither party ever confirmed if they were dating. However, if they were indeed a thing, Rihanna would've been the second oldest woman DiCaprio has ever been in a relationship with in public, as she was 27 in 2015. It remains unclear if the pair ever did have any romantic relationship.
Sophie Dodd is a freelance writer for PEOPLE. She previously worked as an editorial assistant at PEOPLE from 2018 to 2022. Leonardo DiCaprio and Gigi Hadid had a brief romance. The Revenant actor and the model first made headlines when they were spotted together at a New York Fashion Week afterparty in September 2022.
How many times has Leonardo DiCaprio been married?
Leonardo DiCaprio has never been married, but the public still seems to have a pretty good pulse on his dating life (or so we think). DiCaprio is usually linked to someone, often a much younger model. We won't insert a joke about Leo's dating life. They've all been said already.
A few shots of the real shipwreck do appear at the beginning and end of the movie, but bringing in giant replicas — not to mention hundreds of extras — to the middle of the ocean was too ambitious of an idea even for the perfectionist director.
In the movie, she was supposed to be 17. Bodine says: "Rose DeWitt Bukater died on the Titanic. At the age of 17. If she'd've lived, she'd be over a hundred now."
