Leo DiCaprio on Kate Winslet: “Hollywood can be a killer for marriages”

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I recently watched Revolutionary Road, and it took me a while to finally rent it as I’d heard that it was depressing. It was a real downer, but it also felt like a brutally honest film, one in which the color had gone out of a woman’s life and subsequently her marriage. (It bothered me that the children were shown so infrequently in the movie, but they were peripheral to the characters’ lives and I guess it made sense in that context.) The arguments were frustrating and I thought the performances by all the main characters were superb.

Leo recently commented in a kind of vague but telling way about the fact that Kate’s marriage to their director for the film, Sam Mendes, has ended. He said that “Hollywood and this movie business can be a killer for marriages.” Is Leo giving us hints that he’s not the marrying type? I think he’s already demonstrated that. Is he hinting that he knows more about the end of Kate and Sam’s relationship? It’s hard to tell, but Kate was gushing about how much she loved Leo when she was winning awards for that film, and called him more like her husband than Mendes. I never bought the rumors that these two were secret lovers, but they do admit that they’re close friends and I’m sure Kate confided in Leo about her relationship. Here’s more:

The Oscar-winning actress was so disturbed by the relaxed attitude of her husband Sam Mendes – who she is now separated from — to the raunchy scenes in 2008 film Revolutionary Road it made her question her marriage.

“It was certainly a difficult time. She was really worried that Sam wasn’t bothered by the fact that his wife was making out with another guy right in front of her,” Leo said. “I told her it was only acting, but she kept on saying, ‘This is really weird.’

“When Sam started telling her exactly how to have sex with me she didn’t like it at all. She was freaking out because she was supposed to be having sex with her best friend — me — while her husband directed. But I didn’t find it weird at all. It didn’t bother me, because that’s part of acting.”

Kate and Sam — who married in secret in the Caribbean in May 2003 — split in March by “mutual agreement” and Leonardo thinks Hollywood was responsible for the death of their marriage.

“She loved being a wife,” he said. “Some people are meant to be married and I think Kate’s one of them, but Hollywood and this movie business can be a killer for marriages.”

Shortly after their split it was reported Kate and Sam had a trial separation in 2009 after falling out while working together on Revolutionary Road.

[From Showbiz Spy]

That’s sweet that Leo called Kate his best friend! A couple of weeks ago we reported on the rumor that Kate had hooked up with a hot male model who worked for Burberry, among other high end designers. Kate was since photographed out with the guy while he was conveniently jogging shirtless, semi-confirming the rumors. I’m sure she doesn’t mind her estranged husband, who was rumored to be getting hot and heavy with a young actress, seeing those photos. Kate and her husband announced their split in March after seven years and a child together. (Kate also has a daughter from her first marriage.) As far as I can tell they have not officially filed for divorce yet. Maybe that’s coming now that Kate has so publicly stepped out with a new man.

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Kate, Leo and Sam Mendes on December 15, 2008. Credit: WENN.

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  1. skibunny says:

    Kate Winslett is drop dead gorgeous and a great actress. Too bad she wouldnt hook up with Leo. They would make a great couple.

  2. lucy2 says:

    Sounds like they were having problems, and working together just pushed it over the edge. Kind of surprised to hear Leo talking about their marriage like that, but I’m hoping he got the OK to do so. He and Kate do seem like they’re very close friends, and that’s good.

  3. denise says:

    Sam was probably turned on watching Kate do sex scenes with other men.

  4. LOVE ANGELINA says:

    I love that movie. It was depressing but the performances were good. I love the scene when John tells off Frank when they are about to have dinner. I love the fight afterwards to. It was a good movie, very moving. I didn’t think the sex scenes were that racy between Kate and Leo or the other guy in the movie. I mean they had their clothes on and the other guy had his rocks off in 2 seconds and also they still had their clothes on. Leo and Kate clearly showed something emotional that was very sensual.

    I like Leo and I think he isn’t the marrying kind. Good for him. I think marriage in general is a crap shoot.

  5. Sumodo1 says:

    I still get a gay vibe from Leo.

  6. truthSF says:

    @Sumodo1, I agree. I have a sneaking suspicion that he and his actor “friend” Lukas Haas, are secret lovers.

  7. mimi says:

    Constantly taking your clothes off for the camera and having simulated sex with multiple men is a killer of marriage.

  8. mln says:

    @Sumodo1 you aren’t alone, I think we have another George Clooney on our hands and an endless stream of model “girlfriends” to look forward to.

  9. ch says:

    that´s a nice article, thanks
    i totally agree about the children in Revolutionary Road…
    it´s weird to read DiCaprio speak so openly about Winslet´s marriage
    that movie was so depressing, but not in the wrong way
    it made me ask myself a lot of questions
    and it me feel like the kind of delusional character winslet plays
    very sad tough movie
    if their marriage was on the rocks, i guess it was a really bad idea to make it together
    i cannot tell about mendes, he´s been always out of the spotlight, but from what í know about winslet, she really must have had a hard time with that movie, filming, promoting, even the awards
    nobody saw it coming at that time, being so much in the spotlight and try to hide any problems, that wasnt easy, im sure
    but well, that´s life

  10. aenflex says:

    I secretly hope that some day they do marry, Kate and Leo.

  11. Jo says:

    Kate doesnt look anything like her titantic days. Her whole facial structure has changed.

  12. Lee says:

    I too delayed watching the movie, because of it’s depressing subject matter. And it WAS depressing, but more than that, it was a remarkably acted film. Both leads were amazing, and I have new respect for Leo, who I had previously thought a bit of a light-weight. I think they’d make a great couple, but it will never happen.

  13. Tiffany says:

    I finally saw the film as well, not so much as for the subject matter but for the fact the Leo rocked it in that film. That is the first time I have seen any male lead outshine Kate Winslet. It was honest and it did not depict the husband as an idiot or clueless and the wife as a damsel in distress or stupid, they both call each other out on their crap and shown that it was needed.

  14. Nibbi says:

    i really think LdC is one hell of an actor. he was amazing in the aviator.

  15. Katie says:

    How credible is this source? I find it very hard to believe that Leo would speak that candidly about Kate’s marriage. He is notoriously private and known for never giving an inch in interviews.

  16. meme says:

    @Jo – yeah i think kate has gone the hollywierd plastic surgery/botox route. she looks nothing like she did in titanic. and Leo is the new Jack Nicholson not George Clooney.

  17. Fae says:

    @Jo

    Possibly because she was 21 when she made Titanic – 13 years ago. I’m only 25 now but my face has completely changed since I was 21 (annoyingly for the worse, in my opinion)….

  18. irena NL says:

    If we took the divorce rate for just the HW players what would it be? 85% or higher?

  19. Wench says:

    The children are peripheral characters in the book too; which is even more fantastic than the film.

  20. TQB says:

    I remember when they were doing press for this movie that she seemed to be bringing up this issue of her husband directing her and watching her make out with Leo in every single interview. Makes sense to me now that she wasn’t just doing it for publicity, but because she was genuinely discomforted by it. HE was able to handle it, but she wasn’t.

    @Jo, it’s called aging. You lose the fat in your face. Not to mention that she’s had two children and experienced significant weight loss & gain both times – that stuff will change your face.

  21. Kbomb says:

    um, i would be a bit pissed if my BFF was spouting those kind of details about the demise of my marriage to the whole world. (Not that the whole world would care if it were about me!) But considering this is likely to get picked up everywhere, this feels a bit personal for him to be talking about. He doesn’t even speak about his own personal life so openly.

  22. meme says:

    @Fae – I don’t know. Julia Roberts pretty much looks the same way she did in Pretty Woman except older and that movie was a long time ago also. And Leo still looks like Leo, but Kate looks very different.

  23. simplicity says:

    The film was outstanding, the book superb. So much more revealed in the attitudes of the era.

    I can’t imagine it being less than awkward with your hub as director.

    Good to see an ongoing friendship between Kate and Leo.

  24. lucy2 says:

    Agree that film was excellent – I thought she was even better in that than The Reader, and that Leo should have gotten some award attention too.

    I don’t think her whole face has changed, I think it’s a combination of the difference between 21 and 34 years old, weight loss, and better hair coloring and makeup. If she’s had anything done, it’s very minor, and she looks great either way.

  25. sam says:

    Agree with the Leo gay vibe, there is no way he isn’t gay and I would like to know why Leo isn’t called out on his sh*t, flying on private jets with Paris slime Hilton to watch the World Cup in Africa, photos taken this weekend in Sardinia Italy going to a party for the founder of de Grisogono jewelery, who specializing in black diamonds, didn’t Leo bemoan and lecture the public about these diamonds when promoting his movie Black Diamonds……

    Leo is one of the biggest hypocrites in Hollywood, and unlike Jack who lived his life but didn’t think he also had the right to lecture ‘ the little people ” about public polices, limiting our carbon footprint, demanding us to sacrifice for the environment, while he jet sets and parties on every corner of the World.

  26. mick says:

    Leo face has changed a lot more. It’s more bloated and greasy now. He use to be so hot during his titanic days. sigh.

  27. California Surfer says:

    Grandma and I were analyzing pics and think Kate Winslet got a nose job and those veneer things that ironically totally look like Grandma’s dentures.

  28. Obvious says:

    I think Kate looks gorgeous. She’s not conventional and it makes her even lovelier. I adore Leo too, such a superb actor. And one day, I too hope, that they will get together, because I adore them together.

    i truly believe you can have 2 soul mates (or more) in your life-the one whom you are meant to be with forever, and then the best friends that complete your life. and it seems to me that Kate and Leo may be soul mates-which one it is, i do not yet know.

  29. Jeri says:

    Doesn’t sound like Leo to say all that, he may have made one comment & then I think they fleshed it out to make an article.

  30. Sans says:

    She looks the same just thinner. All he said was the business can take a tole on marriage. Nothing new. Hope Leo and Kate get together.

  31. Linda says:

    I do not believe one IOTA of this. Leo would never blab like that — has he ever? Showbiz Spy is probably like In touch – full of *rap.

  32. Shawna says:

    So she just wanted Mendes to be jealous? If I got cuddly with another guy, I’d certainly want DH to get jealous.

  33. jc126 says:

    I don’t believe he’d blab this much about someone else’s marriage, but especially a close friend.
    And yes, I also would secretly love to see them as a real life couple.

  34. Mrs Odie 2 says:

    I thought that the acting in RR was bad! The opening scene seemed like a scene from a play, not a film. It was “stagey” and “big.”

  35. trashaddict says:

    Of course Leo wouldn’t have been uncomfortable with the sex scenes, it wasn’t HIS significant other who was foisting him off on another partner and getting his personal and professional jollies directing it! So it ain’t just about acting!

  36. Camille says:

    CB: If you enjoyed the film then you will really like the book. The book was excellent.

  37. Angie says:

    This is word for word a really, really old interview that I believe KATE gave right after the movie was released. She was asked how it felt to do that with leo in front of her husband and she replied with all of what Leo says here. She was also far less serious than this article makes it sound when Leo ‘says’ it.

    Here she is quoted saying these things in 2008

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/2563540/Kate-Winslet-my-weird-sex-scenes-with-Leonardo-DiCaprio.html

    Someone has fabricated this story by putting Kate’s words into Leo’s mouth. All BS.

  38. gg says:

    if kate and leo got together, the moniker for them would be LATE.. lol

  39. Shy says:

    Well… That happens. Eternal love doesn’t exist. And as Michael K once sad: “If Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins couldn’t do it then there is no hope for the rest of us”. Nothing lasts. People fall in love and then in 5-7 years the love is gone. You only live together.

    People were always hard on Ryan Phillipe for break up with Reese but the truth was that the love was gone long time ago and they were just living together for the kids. Same probably with Kate and Sam. No one to blame. The love was gone so why live together and torture each other?

  40. Jenny says:

    I think life itself is in general a killer for marriage. Doesn’t really take Hollywood to do that for ya.

  41. canadianchick says:

    Meh, he’s a modelizer, won’t date Kate, just friends only. I remember her Oscar speech and Leo tearing up at her gushing. It was sweet but I’m guessing Sam Mendes,at that moment, went “ruh-roh” in his head.

  42. Sammy Jo says:

    Film was clearly about post natal depression-hence why the children were largely absent from the story-symbolised her disconnection from them.

  43. Cara says:

    I think Kate was having an emotional affair with Leo.

  44. CoCo says:

    Kate is a woman; Leo is a boy who is only interested in model girls who lack substance. Why would anyone want to see them get together? Neither would be happy or fulfilled. Titanic was just a movie.

  45. Shirts says:

    Great read thanks 🙂

  46. Crash says:

    Her face is definately different. I don’t think it’s a nose job. I think she got a mini lift or a lower face lift. The jaw sag is gone and face is tighter which makes her nose look a bit more prominent. W/E. She looks great. The rest of Hollywood should ask her who her doctor is…because THEY are all starting to look like freaks

  47. Great read!!!Thnx!!!

  48. Katrina says:

    What happened to Kate!! I didn’t even recognize her. She went from naturally beautiful to looks like Sarah Jessica Parker (not a compliment). Bottle blonde? really? and she lost WAY too much weight, probably trying to please Leo’s obsession with skinny supermodels. I’m disappointed.