Kate Winslet Harassed James Cameron To Land Titanic Role

Kate Winslet has admitted that she borderline stalked and harangued James Cameron into giving her the role of Rose DeWitt Bukater in ‘Titanic’.

During an interview with Rolling Stone, via Cosmopolitan, the Oscar-winning actress admitted that she felt an instant rapport to James Cameron’s script.

“I closed the script, wept floods of tears and said, ‘Right, I’ve absolutely got to be a part of this. No two ways about it,” Winslet recalled.

At this point, Kate Winslet set out on her pursuit, acquiring James Cameron’s phone number from her agent, after presumably rummaging through his rubbish outside of his house first.

But rather than being his home phone number, Kate Winslet had actually been given Cameron’s car phone – a device that the influx of mobile phones has since rendered obsolete.

“[James] was on the freeway, and he said, ‘I’m going somewhere.’ And I think he pulled over, and I said, ‘I just have to do this, and you are really made if you don’t cast me’,” Winslet continued.

Not content with cold-calling the legendary director, Winslet then went on to send James Cameron a bunch of roses alongside a note that read, “From your Rose.” An act that I’m sure Cameron’s girlfriend at the time Linda Hamilton – aka Sarah Connor – was far from pleased with.

But despite crossing several social boundaries, clearly Kate Winslet’s ploy worked wonders, as she was eventually cast in ‘Titanic’, a role that earned her an Academy Award nomination and set her on the way to becoming one of cinema’s most respected actresses. Now we can add the world’s most famous stalker to her CV, too.

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