Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet Have a "Titanic" Reunion as He Praises Her 'Strength' and 'Integrity'
Tommy McArdle
November 20, 2024 at 4:51 PM
A video shared on X showed Leonardo DiCaprio calling Kate Winslet "one of the great talents of my generation" while introducing her new movie 'Lee'
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet still remain close pals, even nearly 30 years after Titanic!
On Tuesday, Nov. 19, DiCaprio, who celebrated his 50th birthday on Nov. 11, posed with Winslet, 49, at a special screening of her latest movie Lee at the Harmony Gold theater in Los Angeles. The former costars embraced as they snapped a photo together in front of a poster for Winslet's new movie, with their arms wrapped around each other and Winslet's head resting against the side of DiCaprio's face.
A video shared on X from the Nov. 19 screening showed DiCaprio heap praise on Winslet while introducing the movie. The two also shared a friendly kiss on the lips as she appeared onstage.
"Kate, my dear friend, your work in this film has been nothing short of transformative," DiCaprio said in the video; he also introduced her to the crowd as "one of the great talents of my generation."
"I continue to be awestruck, I continue to admire your strength, your integrity, your talent and your passion for every single project you create," he added in the video.
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DiCaprio and Winslet famously costarred in filmmaker James Cameron's 1997 epic Titanic, which tracked a star-crossed romance between their two characters.
Even though Titanic released more than 25 years ago, the movie still looms large in pop culture history. It received a whopping 14 Academy Award nominations, went home with 11 total Oscars, including the award for Best Picture, and both actors still frequently address questions about the movie in interviews today.
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As recently as Oct. 21, Winslet fielded a question about Titanic's oft-debated "floating door" scene while she promoted Lee on the Australian talk show The Project. "I thought, 'He's busting out the Titanic question and next he's gonna ask me about the door.' I absolutely knew it," Winslet said, after an interviewer asked whether she thought DiCaprio's character Jack could have found room on thepiece of floating wood her character Rose survives the Titanic's sinking on.
Winslet and DiCaprio would later go on to reunite onscreen in 2008's Revolutionary Road.
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Winslet's latest movie Lee sees her portray the American fashion model-turned World War II photographer Lee Miller. The actress and producer even inadvertently had another Titanic reunion when she attended a recording session for the movie's score. As she said during a Nov. 9 appearance on The Graham Norton Show, one of the violinists recording the movie's score turned out to be actor and musician Jonathan Evans-Jones, who portrayed the bandleader Wallace Hartley aboard the ship.
Lee is in theaters and available to rent or purchase on digital now.