{"id":700434,"date":"2026-05-29T00:23:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T00:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/700434\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T00:23:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T00:23:19","slug":"titanic-survivors-true-story-inspired-kate-winslet-door-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/700434\/","title":{"rendered":"Titanic Survivor&#8217;s True Story Inspired Kate Winslet Door Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One Titanic survivor didn&#8217;t let go\u2014and now his grandson is making sure his story goes on. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Steven Fong confirmed that his grandfather Fang Lang\u2014who survived the real sinking of the Titanic in 1912 by clinging to a door after the boat sank in the Atlantic Ocean\u2014was the inspiration for the iconic scene in the 1997 movie Titanic where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kate_winslet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Kate Winslet<\/a> famously whispered to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/leonardo_dicaprio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Leonardo DiCaprio<\/a>, &#8220;I&#8217;ll never let go, Jack.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As for how that moment went down in real life?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With my grandfather&#8217;s story, he actually went down with the ship,&#8221; Fong told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/titanic-survivor-grandson-chinese-passengers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer nofollow\">CBS News<\/a> in a feature published May 26, explaining that &#8220;to everyone&#8217;s amazement, he found his way onto a door.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Titanic fans may recognize Lang&#8217;s name thanks to the film&#8217;s director James Cameron, with Fong noting that the filmmaker &#8220;does reveal that my grandfather was the inspiration for the Jack and Rose end scene.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s such a surreal feeling being part of this legacy, this big story that everybody knows about.&#8221; Fong said, adding, &#8220;We&#8217;re just so humbled by the opportunity to kind of add that to the story.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One Titanic survivor didn&#8217;t let go\u2014and now his grandson is making sure his story goes on. \u00a0 Steven&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-700434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}