Leonardo DiCaprio’s angle practically price him the long-lasting position of Jack Dawson in 1997’s “Titanic”.
DiCaprio — having starred in films like “What’s Consuming Gilbert Grape” and “Marvin’s Room” since 1991 — was already one thing of a Hollywood heartthrob. Director James Cameron walked right into a pre-production assembly for “Titanic” and met with a room full of girls keen to fulfill the younger actor.
“There was a gathering with Leo after which there was a display screen take a look at with Leo,” Cameron mentioned, per Folks. “The assembly was humorous as a result of I’m sitting in my convention room, ready to fulfill an actor. And I go searching, and all the ladies in all the workplace are within the assembly. All of them wished to fulfill Leo. It was hysterical.”
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Actor Christian Bale revealed in Oct. 2022 that DiCaprio will get first dibs on each position in Hollywood. DiCaprio skilled an identical sense of exclusivity relationship all the best way again to the mid-’90s.
“So he got here again a few days later, and I had the digicam set as much as report the video,” Cameron mentioned. “He didn’t know he was going to check. He thought it was one other assembly to fulfill Kate [Winslet]. So I mentioned, ‘Okay, we’ll simply go within the subsequent room, and we’ll run some strains and I’ll video it.’ And he mentioned, ‘You imply, I’m studying?’ I mentioned, ‘Yeah.’ He mentioned, ‘Oh, I don’t learn.’
“I shook his hand and mentioned, ‘Thanks for coming by.’ And he mentioned, ‘Wait, wait, wait. If I don’t learn, I don’t get the half? Similar to that?’ And I mentioned, ‘Oh, yeah. Come on. This can be a big film that’s going to take two years of my life, and also you’ll be gone doing 5 different issues whereas I’m doing post-production. So, I’m not going to f**okay it up by making the flawed choice in casting. So, you’re going to learn, otherwise you’re not going to get the half.’”
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DiCaprio, based on Cameron, didn’t come into the take a look at studying with the most effective angle. Removed from it, the truth is. Fortuitously, the chemistry between him and Winslet, who had already been forged as Rose DeWitt Bukater, was fast.
“So he is available in, and he’s like each ounce of his complete being is simply so damaging — proper up till I mentioned, ‘Motion.’ Then he was Jack,” the director defined. “Kate simply lit up, they usually performed the scene. Darkish clouds had opened up, and a ray of solar got here down and lit up Jack. I’m like, ‘All proper. He’s the man.’”
“Titanic” premiered in 1997 and acquired 14 Academy Awards nominations. The movie gained Finest Image and Finest Director; in the meantime, Winslet earned a nod for Finest Actress.