{"id":138371,"date":"2022-11-25T00:12:57","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T00:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/leonardo-dicaprio-almost-lost-titanic-role-says-james-cameron\/"},"modified":"2022-11-25T00:12:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T00:12:57","slug":"leonardo-dicaprio-almost-lost-titanic-role-says-james-cameron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/leonardo-dicaprio-almost-lost-titanic-role-says-james-cameron\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonardo DiCaprio almost lost ‘Titanic’ role, says James Cameron"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Leonardo DiCaprio nearly missed out on his role in Titanic<\/em> after he refused to do a screen test with co-star Kate Winslet.<\/p>\n

James Cameron, who directed the 1997 disaster movie, recalled in an interview with GQ<\/em> DiCaprio’s audition for the role of Jack Dawson.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember there was a meeting with Leo and then there was a screen test with Leo,\u201d Cameron said. \u201cSo the meeting was funny because I’m sitting in my conference room waiting to meet an actor, right? And I look around and all the women in the entire office are in the meeting for some reason. Like there was a female executive producer, ok, fine. But our accountant? Why was she in the meeting? They all just wanted to meet Leo, it was hysterical.\u201d<\/p>\n

The director explained that after Leo \u201ccharmed everybody\u201d in the meeting, he was asked back for a screen test with Winslet, who played Rose.<\/p>\n

Cameron added: \u201cSo he came back a couple of days later, and I had the camera set up to record the video. He didn’t know he was going to test. He thought it was another meeting to meet Kate. So I said, ‘Ok, we’ll just go in the next room, and we’ll run some lines and I’ll video it.’ And he said, ‘You mean, I’m reading?’ I said, ‘Yeah’. He said, ‘Oh, I don’t read.’<\/p>\n