Since 1997, fans have had one or more things to say when it comes to the door that ultimately caused Jack’s death in Titanic.
film director , james cameron, It addresses the controversial theory that Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, Jack, could have survived by climbing up to the Rose Door in the middle of the freezing water.
In the upcoming National Geographic documentary, “Titanic: 25 Years Later,” Cameron said that Jack and Rose (played by Kate Winslet) weren’t holding any doors in the first place.
“A new investigation we’ve just done will settle this fan-dependent question about Jack and Rose and their floating piece of debris, which everyone calls a door,” Cameron revealed during a TV Critics Panel Friday, according to USA Today.
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James Cameron is commenting on a fan theory that Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, Jack, in “Titanic” could have survived by holding on to the door that Kate Winslet’s character, Rose, was in.
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“It’s technically not a door,” he explained, before adding, “It’s a piece of wood paneling from the first-class cabin.”
The director said he will give the hotly debated fan theory a “criminal investigation” in the upcoming documentary, which will be released on February 5.
The show will scientifically recreate exactly what Jack and Rose endured when the Titanic sank in the frigid waters of the Atlantic Ocean. The sexy multiples were chosen based on similarities in body types to DiCaprio and Winslet.
According to a teaser for the documentary posted to Twitter, the stunt doubles were in 56 degrees of water instead of 28 degrees, so they’ve “doubled the time for each stage” of the recreation, Cameron says.
Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack and Kate Winslet as Rose in Titanic.
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“This actually maps quite accurately, according to algorithms,” Cameron said of testing theory with this approach. “We’re not trying to prove or disprove anything, we’re just trying to say, ‘If you did this, would you make it better?'”
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“Across four tests, we’ve come to some very hard and very rapid conclusions,” he added, without revealing the results.
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James Cameron said that Jack and Rose never latched on to the door.
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in December, Winslet discussed the door debacle She revealed if she thought Jack could have survived.
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“I don’t know,” Winslet joked during an appearance on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast. “This is the answer, I do not know.”
Winslet is shown an interview segment DiCaprio co-star in the movie “Titanic” He had done it earlier while also on the podcast where he was asked the same question.
Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio in a still from the 1997 movie Titanic.
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“I have no comment,” DiCaprio joked, while actress Margot Robbie endorsed the idea that the door disaster was, in fact, the “biggest controversy.”
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“Actually I don’t think we would have survived if we had come through that door,” said Winslet, after giving the answer some thought. “I think it would have fit, but it could have tilted, and it wouldn’t have been a sustainable idea.”
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