Auction Results: Titanic Door Sells for Surprising Amount
Kate, too, has jumped into the discussion.
“Look, all I can tell you is, I do have a good understanding of water and how it behaves,” the 48-year-old said on a 2022 episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast. “I think he would have fit, but it would have tipped and it would not have been a sustainable idea—yes, he could have fit on that door, but it would not have stayed afloat. It wouldn’t.”
Initially, Kate had to take on smaller roles after the huge success of Titanic, and even once said she’d need “a lot of money” to collaborate with James Cameron again. However, she eventually returned to work with the director, starring in 2022’s Avatar: The Way of Water, 25 years after their work on Titanic.
“Jim, as a director, as a person, you know, we are just both different, older, have hopefully learned a lot more in terms of how to tell stories and be creative contributors and collaborators,” she explained to Entertainment Weekly in 2022 about her decision to work with the director again. “The two films are so different. These experiences were so far apart.”
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