It’s an interesting behind-the-scenes bit of info about what could have been, but we can’t imagine anyone other than Leonardo DiCaprio being the Jack to Kate Winslet’s Rose in Titanic. Of course, McConaughey ended up scoring a role in another memorable film from 1997, Contact, alongside Jodie Foster, and that certainly earned him a lot of attention.
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