How to lose your role in 10 seconds.
Matthew McConaughey had insisted on the role of Jack Dawson in James Cameron’s 1997 blockbuster Titanic, which ended up going to Leonardo DiCaprio after refusing to acquiesce to the director’s request.
In John Landau’s upcoming posthumous memoir, “The Bigger Picture,” the producer even claims that the interstellar actor was at the forefront of the male lead of the film, reading chemistry with Kate Winslet “taken alongside his presence and charm.”
“Matthew did the scene with a draw,” John said, according to a publication that heard Matthew Veroni’s August 5th newsletter, James asked him to do it again without a Texas accent, saying, “It’s great. Come on, let’s try another way.”
According to Landau, the future Oscar winner was not interested in trading his Twangue, so he told the manager, “No.
As a longtime producer for Cameron, who passed away in 2024 after his battle with cancer, he summed up, “For McConaughey, that was just that.”
