The Scene Hated by the Titanic Actors

Text adapted from the original published in Adventures in History with the title “THE TITANIC SCENE THAT WAS HATED BY THE MOVIE’S ACTORS”

Launched in 1997, the feature ‘Titanic’, by James Cameron, went down in history as the most famous film about the shipwreck. Mixing fiction and reality by reproducing the unfolding of the ship that fell from grace, the feature fascinates different generations.

After the tragedy of the Titan, a submarine that imploded when trying to carry out an expedition to the wreckage of the ship, Cameron’s film was once again widely commented among the most curious. So famous, ‘Titanic’ carries curious facts about scenes and backstage.

A curiosity is found behind the scenes of the scene, which even today draws the attention of those who watch the film. This is the moment when the character Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) teaches Amanda, Rose (Kate Winslet), to “spit like a man”. DiCaprio’s character even remains for a few minutes of the scene with the spit close to his chin.

the hated scene

However, the scene, which is one of the most famous in the film, faced resistance from the actors and even from people involved in the production. The production company asked that the scene be deleted from the final cut. Who revealed this curiosity was James Cameron himself, as reported by Farout Magazine.

“I wrote this spit scene where Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) shows her (Kate Winslet) how to spit. The president of my company (Paramount) begged me to take it out,” Cameron explained in an interview with The Buffalo News in 1997. “My co-producer didn’t like it. The people at Fox didn’t like the scene. Leonardo DiCaprio didn’t like it. Kate Winslet didn’t like the spitting scene when we all sat down to read for the first time.”

Cameron, who listened to the criticism, believed in the potential of the scene and did not remove it during the editing of ‘Titanic’. He explained that he made people ‘fall in love’ with the scene.

“I finally got them to fall in love with it. It’s probably the second or third highest-rated scene in the movie,” he said. “The way I do it is if I have a nagging shadow of doubt about something, and if I hear the same thing from other people, I’ll act on it. But if I believe strongly in something, I don’t care how many people tell me that it’s wrong. It must be a personal matter”.