The blockbuster, which hits theaters once again Friday, was initially the subject of vicious gossip and widespread industry doubt.
On March 23, 1998, James Cameron walked up to the stage at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, accepted the Oscar for Best Director and brazenly shouted, “I’m the king of the world!”
Cameron recalled in a 2017 column for the Hollywood Reporter that the Fox chair at the time, Peter Chernin,of a “$100 million chick flick,” and similarly queasy Universal had already passed on the pricey project. Only Paramount’s Sherry Lansing was enthusiastic, but Chernin remained skeptical. Cameron was, after all, the guy who directed the not-so-romantic science-fiction films “The Terminator” and “Aliens.
So, the film was pushed, leading pundits to assume the calendar shift was because it was awful. However, the drama wasn’t limited to checkbooks and boardrooms. The set was said to be a nightmare. . The British actress, who played star-crossed lover Rose, suffered from hypothermia and the flu and sustained scores of injuries during six months of watery filming on a $20 million soundstage in Mexico.
“I had to sort of shimmy out of the coat to get free,” she told the Times. “I had no breath left. I thought I’d burst. And Jim just said, ‘OK, let’s go again.’ That was his attitude. I didn’t want to be a wimp so I didn’t complain.”
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