Titanic star Frances Fisher has revealed the film’s intricate corsets were so tight the actors couldn’t “breathe properly or sit back”.
The 70-year-old actress, who played Ruth Dewitt Bukater, the mother of Kate Winslet’s character Rose, said in a candid conversation with Vulture that the corsets for the film, which is set in 1912, meant filming after a long time turned into one fight were.
She said: “Wearing the corset completely changes your breathing style and posture.
Iconic: Titanic star Frances Fisher has revealed the film’s intricate corsets were so tight the actors couldn’t ‘breathe properly or sit back’ (pictured with Kate Winslet in the 1997 film)
“Nobody could breathe properly. There weren’t many places to rest. Sitting down was difficult. It would burrow into your body and you wouldn’t be able to lean back.
“The proportions were wrong. So we stood around a lot. The women would only experience a pause between takes. Kathy [Bates]Kate and I would say, “Okay, are you guys ready to go back to the dressing room and relieve us?@
She added that the cast were provided with “rest boards” but they couldn’t use them due to their hats and hairstyles.
Frances said that due to the size of the dresses on set, actresses couldn’t fit in the porta potties, so they had to be driven back to their dressing rooms in a pickup truck.
Suffering for her art: The 70-year-old actress, who played Ruth Dewitt Bukater, the mother of Kate Winslet’s character Rose, said the corsets for the film, which is set in 1912, meant filming became a struggle after a long time
She said: “No one could breathe properly. There weren’t many places to rest. Sitting down was difficult. It would dig into your body and you wouldn’t be able to sit back.
The interview comes after Titanic director James Cameron revealed he had conducted a scientific study to finally end the debate over whether Leonardo DiCaprio’s character could have gotten out alive – with the process documented in a TV special.
In the legendary drama scene, Jack and Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet) fight in icy waters after the ship sinks. You are trying to climb a piece of debris in the freezing cold North Atlantic.
There only seems to be room for one at the door, so Jack Dawson sacrifices his seat for Rose. He ends up freezing to death in the water while Rose survives, has a family, and lives as an old woman, just like Jack wanted.
Titanic debate: This comes after director James Cameron once again chimed in on the film’s door debate, saying Jack Dawson (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) “had to die”.
Cameron, 68, who has frequently dismissed claims that Jack may have survived, told The Toronto Sun that he conducted the “forensic study” in the hope that after 25 years he “won’t have to deal with the speculation anymore.” .
He said: “We did a scientific study to end this whole thing and put a stake in her heart once and for all. We’ve since conducted a thorough forensic analysis with a hypothermia expert who reproduced the raft from the film, and we’ll be doing a little special on it coming out in February.
“We took two stunt people who were the same body mass as Kate and Leo and we put sensors all over and inside them and we dunked them in ice water and we tested if they would have survived through a variety of methods and the answer was that there was no way either of them could have survived. Only one could survive
‘[Jack] had to die. It’s like Romeo and Juliet. It’s a film about love and sacrifice and mortality. The measure of love is sacrifice… Maybe in 25 years I won’t have to deal with that anymore.”
Sorted: Cameron said he conducted a scientific study to finally end the debate over whether Leonardo DiCaprio’s character could have gotten out alive – with the process documented in a TV special
The ending of Titanic has sparked a storm of protests from viewers since its release, with many fans trying to refute that only Rose could have survived – and insisting there was plenty of room on the door for Jack.
Back in 2017, the Oscar-winning filmmaker explained in an interview with The Daily Beast how Leonardo DiCaprio’s character Jack had to die in the end and that no episode of Mythbusters can convince him otherwise.
The Canadian director seemed perplexed that so many have spent time debating the tragic end of Titanic.
“Look, it’s very, very simple: You read page 147 of the script and it says, ‘Jack gets off the board and gives her his place so she can survive.’ It’s that simple. You can do whatever post-analysis you want. ‘
The director knows best: Cameron, 68, who has frequently dismissed claims that Jack may have survived, told the Toronto Sun that he undertook the “forensic study” in the hope that after 25 years he “wouldn’t feel like it anymore have to deal with the speculation”. (pictured 1997 (
There was even an episode of Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters detailing various ways Jack could have been saved. Cameron actually joined the team of scientists to test their theories, but the director just didn’t believe it.
He broke down the facts in a very scientific way, stating:
“Okay, let’s really play this through: You’re Jack, you’re in 80 degree water, your brain is starting to get hypothermic, Mythbusters is asking you to take off your life jacket now, take off hers, swim under this thing, fasten it so that.” it is not simply washed out two minutes later.
James continued: “[That] means you’re tying this thing up underwater in 28 degree water and that’s going to take five to ten minutes so by the time you come back up you’re already dead.
Only one: Cameron said: We took two stunt people who had the same body mass as Kate and Leo and we put sensors all over them and inside them and we dunked them in ice water… Only one managed to survive)
‘So that wouldn’t work. His best bet was to keep his torso out of the water and hope to be pulled out by a boat or something before he died.’
However, the Avatar director has no bitter feelings for the myth-busting scientists, saying: “They’re funny guys and I loved doing this show with them, but [with this] They’re full of s**t.’
In 2019, the director chimed in again when he spoke to BBC Radio 1 film critic Ari Plumb.
James contradicted the assessment, saying, “It’s just stupid,” calling it a “dumba**” argument.
In a previous interview with Vanity Fair, the director stated that Jack would have died in the film even if he had climbed the door.
He said: “I think it’s all kind of silly really that we’re having this discussion 20 years later, but it shows that the movie made Jack so endearing to audiences that it hurts them to see him die.”
Reunited: The Oscar winner reunited with Titanic star Kate Winslet last week
“Had he lived, the ending of the film would have been meaningless… the film is about death and separation; he had to die.
“Whether that was it or a chimney fell on him, he went down. That’s called art, things happen for artistic reasons, not for physical reasons.”
One person who believes the opposite is the film’s lead actress, Kate.
During an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the host jokingly brought up the famous scene with the actress, prompting her to reenact it.
The Oscar winner joked, “I put my hand up, I let go of him,” but insisted, “He should have tried harder to get through that door.”
Titanic grossed over $2 billion worldwide during its release. The February special coincides with the release of a 4K restoration of Titanic, slated to hit theaters on Valentine’s Day weekend 2023.
Iconic: Titanic grossed over $2 billion worldwide during its release. The February special coincides with the release of a 4K restoration of Titanic, slated to hit theaters on Valentine’s Day weekend 2023