Why Kate Winslet Didn't Like Kissing Leonardo DiCaprio

Kate Winslet was just 20 in "Titanic," when she first co-starred with Leonardo DiCaprio. Winslet was more inexperienced than DiCaprio, who was already a familiar face in Hollywood thanks to his role in the 1993 coming-of-age drama "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" and the 1996 Shakespeare-inspired "Romeo + Juliet." Winslet was a bag of nerves. "I was like probably how all the women in this audience are, about Leonardo DiCaprio," Winslet told Oprah Winfrey 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?'"

But it ultimately made the experience easier. When they co-starred as husband and wife in "Revolutionary Road" 11 years later, Winslet felt a lot more self-conscious about doing romantic scenes with DiCaprio, not only because she had known DiCaprio for years, but because the film's director was none other than Sam Mendes, Winslet's husband at the time. "I was like, 'Is it just me who feels a bit weird about this? You know. My friend. My husband,'" Winslet told the Mirror in 2008.

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. Her husband, in fact, didn't even seem to register it. "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."

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