Leonardo DiCaprio Was Convinced To Do Titanic By This Actor
Leonardo DiCaprio almost let go of Titanic. Yes, the superstar actor almost turned down the role of Jack Dawson in the mega-hit.
But, thankfully Paul Rudd, his co-star in 1996's Romeo + Juliet, talked him through his doubts.
"It was my last day of filming Romeo + Juliet and we all went out to a bar afterwards," Rudd recalled on The Graham Norton Show.
"I was riding to the place with Leo and he said, 'I just got offered this movie and it's a big movie.
It's a studio movie.
It's Titanic." As fate would have it, Rudd's father was a Titanic expert, which made him even more excited and eager to convince DiCaprio. "I said,...
