Leonardo DiCaprio’s ego virtually value him Titanic

In 1997, Leonardo DiCaprio turned the king of the world, starring in James Cameron’s Titanic–however he virtually by no means wore the crown in any respect. In a brand new video interview with GQ, James Cameron broke down a few of his most well-known films, providing behind-the-scenes tales of the successes, challenges and, sure, primadonnas he has encountered.

On the subject of his 1997 Oscar-winning, field office-smashing Titanic, James Cameron recalled how he ended up casting each Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio within the roles of Rose and Jack. However DiCaprio virtually diva’d his manner out of what would turn out to be considered one of his most vital performances ever.

DiCaprio was in fact a success with the women–one assembly noticed varied girls within the constructing, from producers to accountants, making an attempt to sit down in on an off-the-cuff assembly–however he didn’t get off on the suitable foot with Cameron. When the director stated he would want to do a display screen check with Winslet, “He stated, ‘Oh I don’t learn.’…I shook his hand, I stated, ‘Nicely, thanks for coming by.’” And that’s when DiCaprio snapped out of it. “And he stated, ‘Wait wait wait, you imply if I don’t learn, I don’t get the half, identical to that?’ And I stated…‘This is sort of a big film, it’s gonna take two years of my life and also you’ll be gone…so I’m not gonna fuck it up by making the mistaken choice in casting. So that you’re gonna learn otherwise you’re not gonna get the half.”

After some huffing and puffing, DiCaprio relented, though simply earlier than the cameras rolled, Cameron stated, “Each ounce of his total being [was] simply so damaging.”

It’s fairly curious that DiCaprio would refuse to learn for the half. Whereas he had already earned an Oscar nomination for What’s Consuming Gilbert Grape, he wasn’t but the main man he would come to be. And who is aware of how lengthy that might have taken had Cameron truly booted him from the Titanic working.

Cameron additionally went into particulars on the making of the primary two Terminator films, Aliens, The Abyss and Avatar. His subsequent movie, and first characteristic in additional than a dozen years, Avatar: The Approach of Water, hits theaters on December sixteenth.