Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet: Secret love or deep friendship?
The actors do things for each other that hint at a deep love between them.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet had the opportunity to work together for the first time in the romantic film "Titanic", and from there a friendship was born that has been unbreakable over the years.
Winslet met DiCaprio at the Cannes film festival, later learning that he had auditioned for "Titanic," and so had she, opening up the possibility of working together.
While the film's director James Cameron had Matthew McConaughey in mind for the role, when DiCaprio auditioned it was crazy: "He came in for an interview and something weird happened: I looked up and in the room, every woman in the building was at the meeting… the administrative, the security guard, all of them. So I thought, 'I'd better sign this guy,'” the director recounted.
The director also did not have Winslet in mind for the role of Rose, as he was thinking more of Gwyneth Paltrow, but Winslet wanted the role of Rose more than anyone, reading the script touched her so deeply that she knew she had to act it, and This is what he told the director of "Titanic": "That role is for me, and if you don't give it to me, you're totally crazy."
And so Kate and Leo began their journey through "Titanic together", without knowing that this would unite them forever. During the recordings, in a scene in which Jack (DiCaprio) had to paint Rose's naked body in her notebook, she took off her clothes and DiCaprio was stunned to see her, something that was recorded on tape .
Leo had to tell Kate "Lie down on the couch", but he got a "Lie down on the bed, sorry, on the couch". The director left it that way because he wanted people to see what the actor was really feeling.
As they were recording, they relaxed a little more and began to create a nice connection and a lot of fun too, as Winslet tells it: "We did everything," he said. “He tickled me, he touched me, he teased me all the time. And I returned it to him, for example, I pinched his tail.” It became normal to see them sharing a blanket in one of their trailers or watching the stars together, having deep conversations, smoking cigarettes.
The pair of actors became great friends, those kind of mischievous, but sincere, who become confidants, with whom you can talk about sex and even ask for advice. Kate recalls that Leo would sometimes ask her if she thought he was handsome, to which she would reply, “Absolutely. You son of a bitch, you're stunning. How do you do it with only two hours of sleep?
Kate and Leo became friends, almost like brothers, so much so that they laughed every time they had to record a love scene or if one of them got sick they worried about the other, and with all this the first rumors that they had a romance, about which the actress says "The very idea of something like that was insane: it would have been like incest."
Winslet and DiCaprio decided to cultivate an eternal friendship, to the great disappointment of their fans who expected a romance. For Kate, Leo is one of her best friends, so much so that he was the one who walked her down the aisle during her wedding to Edward Smith in 2012. And for Leo, Kate has been a great support and considers her a great person. .
Kate has been by DiCaprio's side every step of his career, being his number one fan. When he was nominated for an Oscar in 2016, Winslet revealed that she was thrilled to see him so close to achieving that triumph: "He's my closest friend in the world and I couldn't imagine not being there to support him."
And Leo has been by Kate's side in each of her sentimental triumphs and failures, in her two divorces, he is considered an uncle to her three children and it was he who also walked her down the aisle at the wedding with her current husband. Edward Abel Smith.
After “Titanic”, Kate and Leo also acted together in 2018 in the movie “Revolutionary Road”, in which the two played a married couple. Interestingly, when Kate was named Best Actress at the Golden Globe, the first person she hugged was DiCaprio and the second was her husband. And when Kate's mother passed away from cancer, the actress suffered one of the biggest crises of her life and it was her Leo who saved her from despair.
They are friends? Without a doubt, if there is something more? It is not known, the only thing certain is that they have a deep, true and endearing relationship of gold, which many would like to have.
