Kate Winslet, just 20 at the time, was in “Titanic,” when she first co-starred with Leonardo DiCaprio. Winslet was less experienced than DiCaprio who was already well-known in Hollywood for his role in the 1993 coming of age drama. “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape”Shakespeare-inspired 1996 “Romeo + Juliet.”Winslet was a bundle of nerves. “I was like probably how all the women in this audience are, about Leonardo DiCaprio,”Winslet talked to Oprah Winfrey about Winslet in 1998 (via Harper’s Bazaar). “Initially, I thought, ‘Ugh, how am I gonna work with this beautiful man who’s such a brilliant actor?'”
It made it much easier. In the movie, they co-starred as husband/wife. “Revolutionary Road”Winslet was much more conscious 11 years later about romantic scenes with DiCaprio. This was not only due to her long-term relationship with DiCaprio but also because Sam Mendes, Winslet’s husband, was the film’s director. “I was like, ‘Is it just me who feels a bit weird about this? You know. My friend. My husband,'”Winslet said the Mirror2008
Winslet’s feelings differed from DiCaprio’s — and even from Mendes’, for that matter. “Neither Sam nor Leo seemed the slightest bit bothered,” she quipped. She chuckled. Her husband actually didn’t seem even to notice. “You can see this look of absolute intensity on his face and I knew all he was thinking about at that moment was the frame of the shot.”