Titanic almost had another actor play Jack; know who

Text adapted from the original published in Adventures in History

Released in 1997, the film Titanicin James Cameron, remains the most famous about the shipwreck that entered the history books. Blending fact and fiction, the film Cameron uses the real story of the shipwreck that interrupts a fictional love story between the characters Jack and Rose.

The couple, who is played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, fascinates different generations with a tragic love story. However, what many don’t know is that another famous actor also auditioned to play the character that helped jumpstart his career. DiCaprio.

In the year 2021, during an interview with the podcast ‘Literally! with Rob Lowe’the actor Matthew McConaugheysaid he auditioned for the role alongside Kate Winslet.

So I went and read (the script) with the Kate Winslet (who played Rose) and it wasn’t like one of the auditions – they shot it like it was a screen test,” recalled the actor.

The episode was even responsible for generating false hope in the actor, who said he thought it ‘would happen’. That is, he believed he would play the character Jack in the movie Cameron.

“When we left, you know, it was one of those[auditions]where they follow you and when you leave they’re like, ‘That was great!’ and kind of hugged me. I really thought it was going to happen. It didn’t.”

the gossip

The actor even found himself in the middle of a gossip regarding auditions. Titanic. It was said that he turned down the role, which he did not.

“I asked him about it because the gossip I heard and read about me was that I had been offered the role and I had turned it down. It didn’t happen. I wasn’t offered the role,” he said. Matthew McConaugheywho even joked, “For a while I was like, ‘I’m going to find this agent, they’re going to have problems.’

During an interview to Stephen Colbertwhich took place in 2017, Kate Winslet commented on the tests he did with the actor and even joked when imagining how the repercussion of the fictional couple would be.

“I auditioned for Matthew, isn’t that weird? I’ve never talked about it in public. I auditioned for Matthew and it was fantastic! It just wouldn’t have been that whole ‘Jack and Rose, Kate and Leo’ thing,” she said.