Titanic star Frances Fisher reveals painful toll film’s tight corsets took on actors’ bodies

Titanic star Frances Fisher has revealed that the film’s intricate corsets were so tight that the actors couldn’t “breathe properly or lie down.”

The actress, 70, who played Ruth Dewitt Bukater, the mother of Kate Winslet’s character Rose, said the corsets in the film, set in 1912, meant filming became a struggle after long periods of time. in a candid conversation with Vulture.

She said: ‘Having the brace completely changes your breathing style and your posture.

Iconic: Titanic star Frances Fisher revealed that the film’s intricate corsets were so tight the actors couldn’t “breathe properly or lie 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 dig into your body and you couldn’t lie down.

The proportions were wrong. So, we did a lot of standing around. The women would only experience a break between takes. kathy [Bates]Kate and I were like, “Okay, are you guys ready to go back in the dressing room and relieve yourself?”

He added that the cast were given “rest boards” but due to their hats and hairstyles, they were unable to use them.

Frances said that due to the size of the dresses, the actresses could not fit in the portable toilets on set, so they had to be carried back to their dressing rooms on a flatbed truck.

Suffering for her art: The actress, 70, who played Ruth Dewitt Bukater, the mother of Kate Winslet’s character Rose, said the corsets for the film, set in 1912, meant filming became a struggle after Long periods of time.

She said: ‘Nobody could breathe properly. There weren’t many places to rest. Sitting down was difficult. It would dig into your body and you couldn’t lie down.

The interview comes after Titanic director James Cameron revealed that he conducted a scientific study to finally end the debate over whether Leonardo DiCaprio’s character could have made it out alive, with the process documented in a TV special.

The iconic dramatic scene sees Jack and Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet) struggling in icy waters after the ship sinks. They try to climb a piece of rubble in the icy North Atlantic Sea.

It seems there is only room for one at the gate, so Jack Dawson sacrifices his place for Rose. He ends up freezing to death in the water, while Rose survives, has a family, and lives to be an old woman, just like Jack wanted.

Titanic Debate: This comes after director James Cameron again weighed in on the movie door debate, saying that Jack Dawson (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) “had to die.”

Cameron, 68, who has frequently dismissed claims that Jack could have survived, said the toronto sun that he conducted the ‘forensic study’ in the hope that he ‘will no longer have to deal with speculation after 25 years’.

He said: ‘We have done a scientific study to put all this to rest and drive a stake through your heart once and for all. Since then, we’ve done a thorough forensic analysis with a hypothermia expert who reproduced the raft in the movie, and we’re going to do a little special that’s coming out in February.

“We took two specialists who had the same body mass as Kate and Leo and we put sensors all over and in them and put them in ice cold water and tested to see if they could have survived through a variety of methods and the La The answer was that there was no way that both could have survived. Only one could survive.

‘[Jack] I needed to die. It’s like Romeo and Juliet. It is a film about love, sacrifice and mortality. Love is measured by sacrifice… Maybe after 25 years, I won’t have to deal with this anymore.’

Resolved: Cameron revealed that he conducted a scientific study to finally end the debate over whether Leonardo DiCaprio’s character could have made it out alive, with the process documented in a TV special.

Titanic’s ending has sparked a storm of protest among viewers since its release, with many fans attempting to refute that only Rose could have survived, insisting there was plenty of room at the door for Jack.

In 2017 in an interview with the daily beastthe Academy Award-winning filmmaker explained how Leonardo DiCaprio’s character Jack had to die at the end and how no episode of Mythbusters can convince him otherwise.

The Canadian director seemed puzzled that so many have spent time trying to discredit Titanic’s tragic ending.

“Look, it’s very, very simple: You read page 147 of the script and it says, ‘Jack gets off the board and gives his place to her so she can survive.’ It’s that simple. You can do all the post-analysis you want.

The director knows best: Cameron, 68, who has frequently dismissed claims that Jack could have survived, told The Toronto Sun that he conducted the “forensic study” in the hope that “he will no longer have to deal with with speculation after 25 years”. (in the photo of 1997(

There was even an episode of Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters that outlined a variety of ways Jack could have saved himself. Cameron joined the team of scientists to test his theories, but the director simply didn’t buy it.

He broke down the facts in a very scientific way, explaining:

‘Okay, so let’s really play that: you’re Jack, you’re in 28 degree water, your brain’s starting to hypothermia, Mythbusters asks you to now take off your life jacket, take off hers, swim under this thing, attach it somehow so that it doesn’t wash off two minutes later’

James continued: ‘[That] It means you’re underwater tying this thing up in 80 degree water, and that’ll take five to ten minutes, so when you come back up you’ll already be dead.

Only one: Cameron said: We took two specialists who had the same body mass as Kate and Leo and we put sensors all over and inside them and put them in ice cold water… Only one could survive)

So that wouldn’t work. His best bet was to keep his upper body out of the water and wait for a boat or something to pull him out before he died.

However, the Avatar director has no bitter feelings for the myth-busting scientists, saying, “They’re fun guys and I loved doing that show with them, but [with this] they’re full of shit.

In 2019 the director intervened again when speaking film critic Ari Plumb of BBC Radio 1,

James disagreed with the assessment, saying “it’s just stupid” and calling it a “dumb” argument.

In an earlier interview with Vanity Fair, the director explained that Jack would have died in the movie even if he had climbed on the door.

He said: “I think it’s a bit silly, really, that we’re having this discussion 20 years later, but it shows that the film was effective in making Jack so endearing to the audience that it pains them to see him die.” .

Reunited: The Oscar winner met Titanic star Kate Winslet last week

‘If he had lived, the ending of the film would have made no sense… the film is about death and separation; had to die.

‘So whether it was that, or if a smoke stack fell on it, it was sinking. It’s called art, things happen for artistic reasons, not for physical reasons.’

One person who believes otherwise is the film’s leading lady, Kate.

During an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the host jokingly mentioned the famous scene with the actress, prompting them to recreate it.

The Oscar winner quipped, “I put my hand up, I let go,” but insisted, “He should have tried harder to get to that door.”

Titanic grossed over $2 billion worldwide during its release. The February special will coincide with the release of a 4K restoration of the Titanic which will be released in theaters on Valentine’s Day weekend 2023.

Iconic: Titanic grossed over $2 billion worldwide during its release. The February special will coincide with the release of a 4K restoration of the Titanic that is scheduled to open in theaters on Valentine’s Day weekend 2023.