James Cameron won the Best Picture and Best Director Oscars almost 25 years ago and he is still getting heat for his cringe-worthy speech.
Chris Wallace, on the latest episode of “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace,” the news anchor’s new chat program for HBO Max and CNN (via Mediaite), was joined by filmmaker James Cameron, whose new movie “Avatar: The Way of Water” is currently breaking box office records. Wallace felt the need to bring up his Oscar acceptance speech for “Titanic” where Cameron quoted his own movie, shouting “I’m the king of the world!” And Cameron did admit that the moment is, in retrospect, “cringe-worthy,” but also explained where he was coming from: “I was trying to express the joy and excitement that I was feeling in terms of that movie, and the most joyful moment for the character.
