{"id":1748731,"date":"2022-11-22T23:17:50","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T04:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1748731"},"modified":"2022-11-22T23:17:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T04:17:54","slug":"titanic-director-says-diva-like-attitude-almost-cost-leonardo-dicaprio-his-iconic-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/titanic-director-says-diva-like-attitude-almost-cost-leonardo-dicaprio-his-iconic-role\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Titanic\u2019 Director Says \u2018Diva-Like Attitude\u2019 Almost Cost Leonardo DiCaprio His Iconic Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftitanic-director-says-diva-like-attitude-almost-cost-leonardo-dicaprio-his-iconic-role%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1748731&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Director <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/heres-why-betting-against-avatar-2-and-james-cameron-is-a-mistake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Cameron<\/a> revealed in a recent interview that Leonardo DiCaprio\u2019s \u201cdiva-like attitude\u201d nearly cost him the iconic role of Jack in the 1997 blockbuster \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/young-actor-shares-advice-he-got-from-leonardo-dicaprio-early-in-his-career\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Titanic<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cameron, whose newest film \u2014 \u201cAvatar: The Way Of Water\u201d \u2014 is set to be released in theaters on December 16, spoke with GQ about some of his most famous films. \u201cTitanic,\u201d which smashed box office records and ultimately <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/title\/tt0120338\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">grossed over $2 billion<\/a> worldwide, was high on the list \u2014 but according to Cameron, things could have been very different.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Cameron explained that his first meeting with <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/thank-you-leo-christian-bale-claims-hes-only-gotten-leonardo-dicaprios-rejects-in-hollywood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DiCaprio<\/a> actually went very well \u2014 although he noted that he was amused by the fact that all of the women associated with the production suddenly had a reason to be in the room for the actor\u2019s first appearance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a meeting with Leo and there was a screen test with Leo,\u201d Cameron reflected, adding, \u201cSo the meeting was funny, because I\u2019m in my conference room waiting to meet an actor, right? And I look around, and all the women in the entire office are in the meeting for some reason. Like, there\u2019s a female executive producer, okay, fine. But our accountant? You know, why was she in the meeting?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cameron laughed again, saying that he realized as he looked around the room that they had all just wanted to meet DiCaprio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo Leo came in \u2014 of course, charmed everybody, myself included,\u201d Cameron continued, noting that actress Kate Winslet had already been chosen to play the part of Rose. \u201cAnd I said, \u2018Alright, let\u2019s see what your chemistry\u2019s like with Kate.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So DiCaprio was asked to come back for a meeting with Winslet, and he agreed \u2014 but when he arrived and Cameron asked him to read with her, the \u201cRomeo + Juliet\u201d star balked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said, \u2018You mean I\u2019m reading?\u2019\u201d Cameron recalled. \u201cAnd I said, \u2018Yeah.\u2019 He said, \u2018Oh, I don\u2019t read.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cAvatar\u201d director\u2019s response was to immediately thank DiCaprio for his time, at which point Cameron said the actor back-pedaled quickly.\u00a0\u201cHe said, \u2018Wait, wait, wait. You mean if I don\u2019t read, I don\u2019t get the part? Just like that?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cameron said his reply was simple: \u201cI said, \u2018Oh, yeah. Come on. This is, like, a giant movie that\u2019s gonna take two years of my life \u2026 so I\u2019m not gonna f*** it up by making the wrong decision in casting. So you\u2019re gonna read, or you\u2019re not gonna get the part.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DiCaprio did read, although Cameron said he did so begrudgingly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery ounce of his entire being [was] just so negative, right up until I said, \u2018Action!\u2019\u201d Cameron said, but once he uttered that one word, he said DiCaprio \u201cturned into Jack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll right, he\u2019s the guy,\u201d Cameron said, noting that \u201cKate just lit up\u201d the moment they began reading together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director James Cameron revealed in a recent interview that Leonardo DiCaprio\u2019s \u201cdiva-like attitude\u201d nearly cost him the iconic role of Jack in the 1997 blockbuster \u201cTitanic.\u201d Cameron, whose newest film \u2014 \u201cAvatar: The Way Of Water\u201d \u2014 is set to be released in theaters on December 16, spoke with GQ about some of his most &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1748734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1748731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1748731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1748734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1748731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1748731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}