Kate Winslet’s daughter recalls mom covering her eyes during ‘Titanic’ sex scene

Kate Winslet‘s actress daughter Mia Threapleton didn’t get to see all of her mom’s blockbuster Titanic as a kid — at least not while Winslet was in the room.

“I remember the car scene happening and these hands appeared from behind my head and covered up my eyes,” Threapleton said in a recently published interview in Defined Magazine. “I was like, ‘I can still hear everything!'”

And there are some noises, as Winslet’s Rose and Leonardo DiCaprio‘s Jack consummate their love affair in a car being stored on the ship. They smooch and pant, as the instrumental version of the movie’s love theme, “My Heart Will Go On,” plays. Once that’s over, Rose tells Jack, “You’re trembling,” as he assures her that he’ll be okay.

Threapleton, who’s part of the cast in the new Wes Anderson project, The Phoenician Scheme, said the James Cameron-directed disaster epic has never been Winslet’s first choice for entertainment.

“I don’t remember why it was on,” she said. “My mother would never optionally put that film on. She does not like watching herself. And I totally understand why.”

The daughter of Winslet and filmmaker ex-husband Jim Threapleton, the 24-year-old earned her first professional acting credit in Winslet’s 2014 drama A Little Chaos. Since 2020, she’s appeared in series such as the 2024 Netflix drama Scoop and Apple TV+’s The Buccaneers.

Threapleton said her Oscar-winning mother didn’t pressure her to act. In fact, she didn’t even take her along to the set.

“As I’ve grown up, actually, the more grateful I am that it has happened the way it happened, because it has meant that all of my experiences and all of the things that I’ve done have all been from me,” Threapleton said. “They’ve all been things that I wanted and that I put in work to do. That was something that [my mom] was actually really, really supportive of me doing because that is exactly what happened to her.”

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Earlier this month, she explained to Entertainment Weekly that the man who plays her on-screen dad, Benicio del Toro, helped talk her through the nerves she felt on the high-profile Anderson movie, which costars the likes of Tom Hanks, Riz Ahmed, Bryan Cranston, Jeffrey Wright, and Scarlett Johansson.

“It felt like the best and most funnest first day of school ever,” Threapleton said. “But the first day of school, nonetheless.”

The Phoenician Scheme arrives in theaters May 30.