“He’s extremely talented as an actor, but…”: James Cameron had to replace Leonardo DiCaprio on the set of Titanic.

to promote his book in Paris Black Tech – Art by James CameronThe show C à vous was the guest of Avatar and the director of Terminator 2. The team chose to specifically ask the filmmaker about a famous scene in the Titanic sketch.

In this sequence, Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) sketches Rose (Kate Winslet), who has agreed to strip for a painting session. The camera alternates between Rose posing, looking at Jack, and images of the hand drawing on the picture. And this hand is… James Cameron’s!

Leonardo DiCaprio is an artist who is extremely talented as an actor, but he can’t draw at all.

“I drew this portrait and then Leo is holding a notebook and pretending to draw, but that’s the problem”he said on the set of the France 5 show. “When we had to do a portrait, my hand was the one I’m left-handed, and Leo was the right-handed one. I drew it and we flipped it in the movie, so it’s twice as hard. “

Hence, the technical sophistication intended to compensate for DiCaprio’s lack of drawing talent and the need to make a sketch in the image. Note also that the entire painting is signed by James Cameron, the king of pencil strokes. We meet Rose and many others in his work “Tech Noir”.

Note the anecdote that James Cameron is also vocally present in Titanic, as it is his voice that we hear as the liner accelerates and we hear the repeated “Forward, all!”, and then by the sailors on board. We even get a visual of him on screen as he arrives at the beginning of the film and where he has… his beard checked out!