Kate Winslet Finally Reacts To 'Titanic' Door Debate: Could Jack, Rose Fit And Survive?

Kate Winslet broke her silence on the "Titanic" door debacle.

Since "Titanic" was released in 1997, moviegoers have debated over whether Winslet's Rose DeWitt Bukater and Leonardo DiCaprio's Jack Dawson could have fit on the door together. Some fans believe that the two characters could have survived together after the ship had sunk if Rose had moved over a little and Jack had gotten on top of the door as well.

Winslet finally shared her thoughts on the fan theory during her recent appearance on the "Happy Sad Confused" podcast.

"I don't f---ing know," she quipped. "That's the answer, I don't f---ing know. I actually don't believe that we would have survived if we had both gotten on that door. I think that he could have fit, but it would have tipped and it would not have been a sustainable idea."

Winslet said she gained a lot of water knowledge through the various water sports she and her husband, Edward Abel Smith, have been doing, including paddleboarding, surfing and kiteboarding.

Drawing from her experience in these activities, the actress concluded that while DiCaprio's character could have fit on the door, it would not have been able to stay afloat.

DiCaprio previously said on the same podcast in 2019 that he had "no comment" on the "Titanic" door debacle.

It prompted his "Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood" co-star Margot Robbie to say at the time that the door debate was "the biggest controversy."

Winslet's comments came after "Titanic" director James Cameron said in an interview with the Toronto Sun that he commissioned a scientific study to find out whether Jack could have truly survived alongside Rose. He did so to "put this whole thing to rest and drive a stake through its heart once and for all."

According to Cameron, they hired two stunt people with the same body mass as Winslet and DiCaprio and tested whether the characters could have survived together through a variety of methods. They monitored everything with the help of sensors that they put on the stunt people's bodies before putting them in ice water.

But the Oscar-winning filmmaker said the tests concluded that there was no way both of them could have survived the disaster.

Cameron also said that he does not regret writing Jack's tragic death.

"No, he needed to die. It's like 'Romeo and Juliet.' It's a movie about love and sacrifice and mortality," Cameron said. "The love is measured by the sacrifice."

The director's experiment will air on National Geographic next year.