Kate Winslet wants to hurl every time she hears the song “My Heart Will Go On.”
I “feel like throwing up,” the actress said of the famously sappy Celine Dion tune, even though it played a pivotal role in Winslet’s career-making film, “Titanic.”
The 36-year-old beauty admitted to MTV News that she probably shouldn’t feel so negative about the song that’s so closely identified with James Cameron’s 1997 blockbuster.
“I wish I could say, ‘Oh, listen, everybody! It’s the Celine Dion song!’ But I don’t,” she said.
When she hears it, Winslet said she tries to hide her dismay.
“I just have to sit there, you know, kind of straight-faced with a massive internal eye roll,” the English actress said.
Winslet can’t escape the tune.
“I did a talk show recently in Italy, and they actually had a live pianist who started gently playing the theme song,” said Winslet, who has been promoting the 3-D re-release of the movie.
“I was . . . urged to go and sing it, as though I had, in fact, sung it myself in the first place. I was like, ‘No! I’m not going to do that.’ ”
Winslet played first-class passenger Rose DeWitt Bukater, who falls in love on the doomed cruise with Leonardo DiCaprio’s third-class rogue, Jack Dawson.
Even as she dissed the song, Winslet acknowledged that she owes her career to “Titanic.”
“I’m fortunate enough to get to choose the roles I play these days, largely due to the success of ‘Titanic,’ actually, and so I do like choosing things that are risky and a little bit unexpected,” she told UK radio station Magic 105.4.
“It was really ‘Titanic’ that provided that creative freedom for me and, actually, then years later becoming a mother, it has been so brilliant, the success of that film, because it has meant I haven’t had to work as well, and I can completely be a mum.”
“Titanic 3D” sails back into theaters next week, so Winslet will have many more chances to hear Dion’s biggest hit single, which has sold more than 15 million copies worldwide.
It was No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart for 10 consecutive weeks.
And it has since become associated with another cruise disaster.
Passengers aboard the ill-fated Italian liner Costa Concordia have said that “My Heart Will Go On” was playing in the ship’s restaurant as it slammed into rocks off Isola del Giglio on Jan. 13.