Titanic, PCP and chowder: New details about drugging on 1996 film set in Halifax revealed
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More information has been revealed in a police report looking into how the Titanic film crew was served chowder laced with a hallucinogenic drug in Nova Scotia in 1996.
The Hollywood blockbuster Titanic is known for many things, including an emotionally charged film set, a ballooning budget and nearly a dozen Oscar wins after it was released in 1997.
But there’s a story about the movie some may not be so familiar with. It’s a mystery behind the scenes during filming in Nova Scotia that involves lobster chowder and a hallucinogenic drug.
“It was kind of like, very dreamy, very surreal,” recalls Marilyn McAvoy, who is now a part-time faculty member at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
“Like many things that happened on that movie, I think it’s just become this kind of lore.”
Back in August 1996, McAvoy worked on the Halifax-area set of Titanic as a painter. Only the movie’s modern-day scenes were filmed in Nova Scotia, which meant leading stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet were not present.
McAvoy even had an unexpected cameo, during a scene when Bill Paxton’s character examines a drawing recovered from the wreckage.
“That wasn’t part of the plan. As a scenic painter or standby painter, usually, you don’t get these little cameos, but I ended up working with the drawing that (director) James Cameron did of Kate Winslet,” she says.
“He didn’t want anyone else touching it, so he asked me if I would be this lab technician for this one day of shooting here in Dartmouth.”
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