Kate Winslet tells Lorraine Kelly she 'never fancied' Leonardo DiCaprio

The pair played ill-fated lovers Rose and Jack in the 1997 film Titanic 

Kate Winslet has revealed that she ‘never fancied’ her Titantic co-star Leonardo DiCaprio, despite him being one of the world's biggest heartthrobs.

The actress was discussing the film’s upcoming 20th anniversary on Lorraine, when she opened up about the friendship that the pair developed on set.

“I think for Leo and I, [Titanic] was seven months of very intense work. We were both really very young and luckily, and this was the fortunate thing, we never fancied each other," she said.

“I know that’s really annoying to hear, sorry. We really never did. So it did mean that we were able to have this… be able to tease each other, which we still do, which is really amazing."

No spark: Kate Winslet has revealed she 'never fancied' Leonardo DiCaprio
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Despite being released back in 1997, Winslet said that Titanic is being discovered by a whole new generation of fans, including some of her children’s friends.

She said the experience of hearing them recite lines from the film made her "feel very old".

Leonardo Di Caprio with Kate Winslet at The Oscars 2016

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“The lovely thing about Titanic for me now, my children and their friends say, ‘Oh I love the bit in Titanic when you did…’. They are reciting lines from Titanic that, I mean, I’ve long forgotten," she said.

The 41-year-old added: “I say to them, 'you weren’t born when that film was made', which makes me feel very old. There’s another generation of children who are enjoying it and loving it for the first time.”

Winslet was appearing on the show to promote her new film The Mountain Between Us, which sees her star alongside Idris Elba as a plane crash victim stranded in the Canadian Rockies.

Lorraine continues weekdays at 8.30 am on ITV.

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