Billy Zane explains why Jack and Rose would possibly maybe likely now not relish both fit on the door in Gigantic

Over two decades after Gigantic first hit theaters, its villain Billy Zane silent finds himself receiving criticism about his personality, Rose’s smug fiancé, Cal Hockley.

“They recognize to disfavor him,” the actor, fifty one, tells PEOPLE on this week’s difficulty. “And then there would possibly maybe be a exiguous military of those that sympathize and realize he became as soon as real a fabricated from sinful programing. You hear it all. ‘How would possibly maybe you?’ or ‘Uncomfortable bastard.’”

And when followers question him why Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Rose (Kate Winslet) couldn’t both fit on that floating door and continue to exist, the father of two calls the different “real upright storytelling.”

“Your hero had to die,” Zane says with a laugh. “I don’t know what else would relish done it. It had to happen.”

One state that survived his time working on the 1997 drama: Zane’s recognize of painting.

“On plan of Gigantic I spent most of my down time painting and doing painting events, turning completely different of us on to getting painting garments on and getting a chunk messy,” he unearths.

Whereas Zane claims he never deliberate to show any of his artwork, the Chicago native went on to show his work in art work presentations and sell it for 1000’s at fundraisers, collectively with the Leonardo DiCaprio Basis’s annual charity public sale in St. Tropez, France in July.

“Last time I observed Kate and Leo became as soon as at his foundation fundraiser,” Zane remembers. “[My painting] bought for like a hundred,000 Euros, which is basically the most I’ve ever bought for. Manufacture it for the planet, honest?”

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The SAG nominee stored up alongside with his ardour on the plan of his latest movie, Samson, which filmed in Stellenbosch, South Africa. “I most smartly-liked working there,” he says. “All the pieces informs a canvas — the soil, the water, some found out objects. It’s consistently relaxing to pilfer an art work division. It’s a in actuality useful keep of dwelling to paint.”

Samson is in theaters Friday.