Kate Winslet recalls being recognised as Rose from Titanic in Himalayas

LOS ANGELES: Hollywood actress Kate Winslet has recalled that she was overwhelmed when an old man in the Himalayas recognised her as Rose from Titanic during her trip to India.

The actress starred alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in the 1997 blockbuster as Rose DeWitt Bukater. Winslet revealed the most unusual place she was spotted by someone as the moment made her emotional and she burst into tears.

“Titanic was everywhere. A couple of years after it came out, I went to India. I was walking in the foothills of the Himalayas, just me with my backpack on my back and a man came towards me with a walking stick – he must have been 85 and was blind in one eye,” she said.

“He looked at me and said, ‘You – Titanic. I said yes and he just put his hand on his heart and said, ‘Thank you’. I burst into tears. It really helped me understand how much that film had given to so many people,” Winslet told Candis magazine.

The actor said she is proud of the James Cameron-directed movie, but the huge success made her uncomfortable. “I was leading quite a public life, which I was not prepared for at all. All of a sudden, people were looking at me, talking about me – I would read or hear things about me which were just untrue.”

“I’m only human and that hurt! My twenties were a bit of a roller coaster, in fact, with some amazing times but some hard times too. These days I look back and think, Whew – I went through all of that?” she added.

Winslet also opened up about how she struggled to get roles at first because she wasn’t the very slim type Hollywood agents wanted.

She recalled: “Even when I was talking to casting agents, I was getting a lot of negativity. I wouldn’t give up as even though I knew I wasn’t the very slim type most agents were looking for, I could act, and I knew that one day I would find roles that I would suit.”