Kate Winslet 'haunted' by 'Titanic' nude scene

03 April 2014 - 15:41 By Bang Showbiz
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Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in 'Titanic'. File photo.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in 'Titanic'. File photo.
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Actress Kate Winslet is still "haunted" by her nude scene in 'Titanic' and refuses to sign pictures or drawings of her body from the movie.

The Oscar-winning actress stripped down for an intimate moment in the 1997 blockbuster, during which her co-star and friend Leonardo DiCaprio's character, Jack Dawson, draws a picture of her character Rose DeWitt Bukater's naked body.

She admits she finds some parts of the movie "very uncomfortable" to watch and refuses to sign photographs or recreations of the original drawing.

The 38-year-old beauty told Yahoo! Movies: "I don't sign that [picture]. It feels very uncomfortable. Why would you do that? People ask me to sign that [picture] a lot.

"There's a photo of it as well that someone has lifted from a still of the film, and that photo gets passed around too. I'm like 'No! I didn't mean for it to be a photograph that I would end up seeing still 17 years later."

The actress, who has a four-month-old son, Bear, with her husband Ned Rocknroll and children Mia, 13, and Joe, 10, from previous relationships, added: "It's still haunting me. It's quite funny really."

The Divergent star recently admitted she often "vomits" before shooting challenging scenes.

She said: "I think you get really good at mind-fucking yourself, to be honest. Acting is bloody scary. I still have moments when I think, 'I can't do this - everybody thinks I'm absolutely shit.'

“There are scenes I absolutely dread - there was a scene in Labor Day; the whole courtroom sequence in The Reader. I often throw up, which I'm a bit embarrassed about. It's the adrenaline."

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