Titanic director James Cameron doesn’t buy the alleged mythbusting done by Mythbusters.
In a 2012 episode of the show, the Mythbusters “proved” that Jack and Rose could have shared the floating door in the icy waters the night the iconic ship sank. It’s been a popular theory floating around the internet in the years following the release of the 1997 classic. Watch:
In a new interview with The Daily Beast, Cameron calls them out. He explains why Jack and Rose could not have shared that damn door:
OK, so let’s really play that out: you’re Jack, you’re in water that’s 28 degrees, your brain is starting to get hypothermia. Mythbusters asks you to now go take off your life vest, take hers off, swim underneath this thing, attach it in some way that it won’t just wash out two minutes later—which means you’re underwater tying this thing on in 28-degree water, and that’s going to take you five to ten minutes, so by the time you come back up you’re already dead. So that wouldn’t work. His best choice was to keep his upper body out of the water and hope to get pulled out by a boat or something before he died. They’re fun guys and I loved doing that show with them, but they’re full of shit.
Cameron has clearly given a decent amount of though to the theory (bless him). He brings up good points — it may not’ve been possible to get the life vest under the door and keep it there.
And so the debate continues…