'Titanic' Star Bill Paxton Feared Titanic Submersible Dives (Flashback)

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Bill Paxton feared the Titanic submersible dives. In the wake of the Titanic tourist submersible tragedy, ET is looking back at its interview with the late actor back in 2003, when he admitted that he was nervous about going deep down in the ocean to see the wreckage of the famed ship.The actor, who starred in as Brock Lovett, spoke to ET ahead of the premiere of, the documentary in which director James Cameron discussed his inspiration for the film and took several people, including Paxton, on an unscripted tour of the famous wreckage.«Each dive, I had to kind of look myself in the mirror and go 'OK, are you ready for this?'» Paxton, who died in 2017, told ET at the time. «It's one of those things where Jim [Cameron] asked me in passing to go and...the opportunity of a lifetime.

I jumped at it.»«But then you start thinking about physically what's going to be required of you to get into a three-man, deep-sea Russian submersible for a 13-hour dive,» he added. «To go down two and a half miles to a place where the sun has never penetrated.

And you're starting to think 'OK, I've got young kids. I need to get them to an age where they can support themselves before I do something this crazy.'»Nevertheless, Paxton decided to go, noting, «Jim is an infectious guy.

And also, God, who wouldn't go on this adventure?»As for what it was like inside the submersible, Paxton recalled it being «relatively comfortable,» before noting that «certainly there are things that can go wrong.»«If they do go wrong, it's not going to matter anyway.