James Cameron has recreated the controversial floating door scene from Titanic to see if Jack could have survived. 25 years since the Oscar-winning blockbuster was released, the director has finally put to bed one of cinema’s most hotly debated topics: that there was enough room for both Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Rose (Kate Winslet) to make it out alive.
Ahead of Titanic’s theatrical re-release later this month, Cameron and a team of scientists have tested several different scenarios in the upcoming National Geographic special, Titanic: 25 Years Later with James Cameron. In it, the team and a pair of actors recreate the conditions endured by the ill-fated lovers following the ship’s demise.
In a clip shared by Good Morning America, it appears that should Jack have climbed onto the debris with Rose, he actually had a fairly good chance of survival – at least for a few hours. In the first test, the two actors embodying the couple both climb onto the ship’s door, but with Jack’s added weight, they find themselves both submerged in the freezing water – something neither would have survived.
