Leonardo DiCaprio's 'telling' two-word comment about iconic Titanic scene

Some 27 years after the release of Titanic, Leonardo DiCaprio has shared a comment about an iconic scene from the movie, which has become controversial among film fans
Despite having been released over 27 years ago, Titanic continues to be described as one of the greatest films in modern cinema. The movie tells the story of Jack and Rose, played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet respectively, as they sail aboard the Titanic ship before it sinks.
In one of the most famous scenes of the film, which is still talked about as a big 'controversy' within the movie world, Jack and Rose are seen swimming in the ice cold water after having jumped off the sinking ship. They then find an empty raft from a door which Rose climbs up on, leaving Jack to freeze in the water.
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While many people are still taking about this scene, with people arguing about whether or not Jack could have fitted on the door with Rose and thereby saving his life, Leonardo DiCaprio has now shared his own thoughts on the matter after being asked about it in an interview.
In an interview with All the Right Movies, Leonardo, along with his 'Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood' co-stars Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie, was asked about the famous ending of the Titanic movie.
"Okay, biggest movie controversy of all time," the interview started before jumping in to ask his question. "Could Jack have fit on that door at the end of Titanic?"
"Oh my god," Margot immediately said. "I remember bawling my eyes out when I was a girl."
As to the question, Leonardo just replied with a smile on his face: "I have no comment."
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"That is telling I think," the interviewer said, to which Margot quickly agreed to, saying: "That is the biggest controversy in modern cinema."
"When would you [comment on it]?" Brad asked Leonardo, which he quickly said he'd never comment on the matter.
"No comment," he said again as the rest of the group laughed as he seemed uncomfortable about the question, not wanting to say anything else about it.
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"Did you mention it at the time? Were you like 'should we make the door smaller?'" Margot then asked the actor.
Leonardo then once again replied: "Like I said, I have no comment."
Director James Cameron has previously been open about his decision of letting Jack die in the movie, claiming he 'had to die' for the plot to work.
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Talking in a press interview for Avatar: The Way of Water, James said: "No, [Jack] needed to die. It's like Romeo and Juliet, right? It's only poignant. It's a movie about, you know, love and sacrifice and mortality.
"The love is measured by the sacrifice. Now, maybe I didn't do it in a way that everybody agrees with, but Jack had to die. It's that simple. If I had to make the raft a little bit smaller, I'd make it smaller.
"Now, incidentally, we have since done a thorough forensic analysis with a hypothermia expert, reproducing the raft from the movie [...] where we took two stunt people but with the exact body mass of Kate and Leo. And we put censors all over them and inside them," he explained.
"And we put them in ice water, and we tested to see whether they could have survived by this method, or that method, or that method. And the answer was there was no way they could both survive. Only one could survive."

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