VARIOUS: Actress Kate Winslet and director James Cameron walk the red carpet at the world premiere of 'Titanic 3D' at London's Royal Albert Hall

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  • Title: VARIOUS: Actress Kate Winslet and director James Cameron walk the red carpet at the world premiere of 'Titanic 3D' at London's Royal Albert Hall
  • Date: 30th March 2012
  • Summary: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (MARCH 27, 2012) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTRESS KATE WINSLET, ON WORKING AGAIN WITH JAMES CAMERON AND LEONARDO DICAPRIO IN FUTURE, SAYING: "I have worked with Leo again which has been amazing and you know I would work with him again in a heartbeat. Yes - I mean Jim Cameron is a brilliant man - he's a wonderful director and I feel really privileged to have had that experience." WINSLET TALKING TO JOURNALISTS (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTRESS KATE WINSLET, ON HOW SHE FEELS ABOUT SEEING HERSELF IN INTIMATE SCENES IN 3D, SAYING: "Oh terrible! Wouldn't you? I am not going to look. I'll be in the bar by that point I expect -- or on the floor!" CLOSE OF WINSLET ON RED CARPET WAVING, BLOWING KISSES AND MOUTHING 'I love you' CAMERON, STANDING WITH HIS WIFE, TALKING TO JOURNALISTS (SOUNDBITE) (English) DIRECTOR JAMES CAMERON, SAYING: (Reporter: "What would you say to anyone who said you were making a commercial opportunity out of the anniversary of what was, although a long long time ago, a tragedy?") "Yeah, you know look -- there's always going to be people that can piss in the soup of anything good. But frankly I think that remembering Titanic, remembering the history -- that's what the film was there for. That's why I made it, you know. I was fascinated by the story, I was fascinated by the history, the people that were heroic, the people that lost their lives. I was genuinely touched by the tragedy when I was there at the wreck. I think the film is a good focusing agent for that at this time when we should be remembering the wreck and its message, the disaster and its message for all of us." TITANIC SIGN VARIOUS OF CAMERON ON RED CARPET (SOUNDBITE) (English) DIRECTOR JAMES CAMERON, ON RECENT DIVE TO REACH THE OCEAN'S DEEPEST POINT, SAYING: "One of the reasons I made Titanic is because I was fascinated by deep ocean exploration. It was an opportunity to dive in a submarine very deep that time. But in the dive that I made yesterday or whenever it was -- I don't know I just kind of flew half way round the world -- I went past Titanic depth in the first forty minutes of the dive and I was still only a third of the way there. So there's a vast unexplored frontier down there and we really just scratched the surface." CAMERON TALKING TO JOURNALISTS (SOUNDBITE) (English) DIRECTOR JAMES CAMERON, ON BENEFITS OF 3D CONVERSION, SAYING: "I just think it makes it more immersive. It kind of turns up the experience to 11 instead of 10."
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  • Story Text: Oscar-winners Kate Winslet and James Cameron were at London's Royal Albert Hall on Tuesday (March 27) for the world premiere of the 3D version of "Titanic."
    Back in 1997, when the film was originally released, Winslet was a relatively unknown actress -- but the movie, in which she played Rose alongside Leonardo DiCaprio's Jack, propelled her to worldwide fame.
    The 36-year-old, who wore a glistening Jenny Packham gown, admitted the re-release fifteen years on was a bizarre experience for her.
    "It's weird. I mean it is like being forced to go through a photo album of your former self for three and a half hours solidly. It's quite strange you know. But the film is still wonderful and it looks incredible. It's just one of those kind of surreal moments to kind of go with it," she said.
    She added that she would jump at the chance to work with director James Cameron and the male lead DiCaprio again.
    "I have worked with Leo again which has been amazing and you know I would work with him again in a heartbeat. Yes -- I mean Jim Cameron is a brilliant man -- he's a wonderful director and I feel really privileged to have had that experience," she said.
    But there was one aspect of the movie premiere she admitted she was not looking forward to so much.
    The actress said she "wouldn't look" when intimate scenes between her character and Leonardo DiCaprio are played in 3D.
    When asked about how she would feel seeing herself naked on the big screen, the English actress said: "Terrible, wouldn't you?...I'm not going to look, I'll be in the bar by that point."
    The film is being re-released almost exactly 100 years after the real Titanic set sail.
    Shortly before midnight on 14 April 1912, the passenger liner struck an iceberg on its way from Southampton to New York.
    It sank less than three hours later, killing 1,517 people.
    Director James Cameron rejected suggestions that the re-release on the 100th anniversary of the tragedy was simply an attempt to cash in.
    "Yeah, you know look -- there's always going to be people that can piss in the soup of anything good. But frankly I think that remembering Titanic, remembering the history -- that's what the film was there for. That's why I made it, you know. I was fascinated by the story, I was fascinated by the history, the people that were heroic, the people that lost their lives. I was genuinely touched by the tragedy when I was there at the wreck. I think the film is a good focusing agent for that at this time when we should be remembering the wreck and its message, the disaster and its message for all of us," he told Reuters Television.
    Cameron came to London fresh from the success of his latest venture.
    He used a specially designed submarine, called Deepsea Challenger, to dive nearly seven miles below the surface of the Pacific.
    He reached the ocean's deepest point on Earth - a place where only two men had gone before - early on Sunday, local time.
    The descent took him to the Mariana Trench, about 200 miles south west of the Pacific island of Guam.
    "One of the reasons I made "Titanic" is because I was fascinated by deep ocean exploration. It was an opportunity to dive in a submarine very deep that time. But in the dive that I made yesterday or whenever it was -- I don't know I just kind of flew half way round the world -- I went past Titanic depth in the first forty minutes of the dive and I was still only a third of the way there. So there's a vast unexplored frontier down there and we really just scratched the surface," he said.
    When asked what the 3D conversion added to the movie, he said: "I just think it makes it more immersive. It kind of turns up the experience to 11 instead of 10."
    Actor Billy Zane, who portrayed the villain of the piece, Rose's fiance Cal, said his violent character was misunderstood by audiences who thought him evil.
    "He's not wicked. He's just...he's tragic....Yes, he hits her. The girl who cheated on him. No, I mean I am not condoning that behaviour. It's bad programming, mate, I am not going to apologise for him. I might protect him just a little bit though. I don't think he's the Prince of Darkness and I know, I played him."
    "Titanic 3D" will be released worldwide on April 6.
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