Kate Winslet wades in on Titanic door theory and answers a question that's divided fans for years

Kate Winslet finally answers an age old theory about Titanic that's divided fans of the 1997 film for decades and claims Jack could 'have fit' on the door that saved Rose's life

It has been an age old question that has left fans of Titanic divided for years - and now Kate Winslet has answered the question of whether Jack could have fit on the door that saved Rose's life.

In the 1997 film, Kate Winslet, who played Rose, is seen gripping to a door in the middle of the sea as the ship plummeted into the ocean. Meanwhile, her lover Jack is seen barely holding on to the edge of the door and after suffering from hypothermia, his grip loosened and drowned.

And since the release of the blockbuster movie, some fans have always believed that Jack, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, could have made it on to the same door, which would have saved his life. But others have disagreed. However, 25 years later, during an interview in 2022 while on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Kate gave her point of view and claimed that Jack could have fit on the door.

She said: "You've heard it here, for the first time, yes he could have fit, he could have fit on that door." But she was keen to add that their combined weight would have made it impossible for the door to stay afloat. She added: "But it would not have stayed afloat. It wouldn't."

Titanic's ending even forced director James Cameron to wade in on the discussion. In a previous interview with the Toronto Sun, he claimed that he even commissioned a scientific investigation to carry out tests on a number of survival scenes for the lead characters.

He explained: "We took two stunt people who were the same body mass of Kate and Leo and we put sensors all over them and inside them and we put them in ice water and we tested to see whether they could have survived through a variety of methods and the answer was, there was no way they both could have survived. Only one could survive."

He added: "[Jack] needed to die. It’s like Romeo and Juliet. It’s a movie about love and sacrifice and mortality. The love is measured by the sacrifice…Maybe after 25 years, I won’t have to deal with this anymore." One misconception was that it was a door that saved Rose's life, when in fact, according to Kate, it was a piece of bannister.

In an interview with Australian talk show The Project last month, the legendary actress said: "People keep referring to it as a door. It actually wasn't even a door. It's a piece of bannister, like a stairway or something, that had broken off." The famous item sold at auction for $718,750 in March at the Heritage Auctions' Treasures from a Planet Hollywood event.

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