Frances Fisher on the Costumes in 'Titanic'

Frances Fisher: Corsets? It’s painful, yes. And, you know, they had these slant boards for the actresses to – because you can’t really sit down and relax in a corset, they would give us slant boards. But unfortunately the slant boards were too small because our hats and our hair was so big, so that didn’t work. So literally, like Kathy Bates and I, Kate, and everybody else, all the women, we’d just sit on our little couches waiting. That was a painful, painful experience. From Titanic. But it was nothing like getting wet. Never had to get wet, so…
Frances Fisher: Corsets? It’s painful, yes. And, you know, they had these slant boards for the actresses to – because you can’t really sit down and relax in a corset, they would give us slant boards. But unfortunately the slant boards were too small because our hats and our hair was so big, so that didn’t work. So literally, like Kathy Bates and I, Kate, and everybody else, all the women, we’d just sit on our little couches waiting. That was a painful, painful experience. From Titanic. But it was nothing like getting wet. Never had to get wet, so…
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27 March, 2012
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