Kate Winslet Speaks Out About Fat-Shaming Comments After ‘Titanic’

Despite Kate Winslet’s brilliant performance in Titanic, The role had its price. Winslet spoke about fat-shaming comments she received from reporters who focused on her weight while she walked red carpets Titanic Premiere, in a 60 minutes The interview was published on Sunday.

“It’s absolutely horrific,” Winslet said. “What kind of person do you have to be to do something like that to a young actress who’s just trying to figure it out?”

At the age of 20, Winslet was cast in the lead role Titanic, The opposite of Leonardo DiCaprio, which grossed more than $674 million at the domestic box office. Fighting back tears, Winslet reflected on an instance in which she responded to a reporter’s cruel comments about her weight.

“I left it up to them. I said, ‘I hope this haunts you,'” Winslet said, fighting back tears. “It was a great moment, and not just for me. It was all these people who were subjected to this harassment. It was terrible. It was really bad.”

Before she got her big break, Winslet also said she faced criticism in drama school. The Oscar-winning actress recalled that an acting teacher told her to settle for the “big girl roles,” she said 60 minutes. “I thought, ‘I’ll just show you,’ very quietly,” Winslet said. “It was like a kind of quiet determination.”

In Winslet’s latest film leeIn the lead role, the actress plays the US war correspondent and photographer Lee Miller. Miller initially served as a war correspondent for fashion and photographed early images of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau.