James Cameron says Jack could not have survived on Titanic raft

Movieweb reports James Cameron said on The Hollywood Reporter's Awards Chatter Podcast that he's had enough of people asking whether Jack could have survived on the raft in Titanic. Cameron said they even performed an experiment to test whether Jack—or both Jack and Rose—could have survived, and complained that people had not accepted the result.

He told listeners: "Don't ask me about the f*cking raft, people! Look, we even went to the lengths of doing an experiment to see if Jack could have in any way survived, or if they could have both survived, and people didn’t even hear the answer when I told them the answer. The answer is, if Jack somehow was an expert in hypothermia and somehow knew what science now knows back in 1912, it is theoretically possible, with a lot of luck, that he might have survived.

Therefore, the answer is no, he could not have. There's no way. The conditions were not met. He couldn't have known those things." The director has spent much of the past two decades on the Avatar franchise; Avatar: Fire and Ash is due in December 2025 as the third installment, and Cameron has at least two more movies planned with release dates in 2029 and 2030, though it is unclear whether he will direct them.

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Culture, James Cameron, Titanic, Jack, Rose, Hypothermia