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Leonardo DiCaprio & Kate Winslet (Titanic)

Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance and disaster film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. A fictionalized account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, it stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson and Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater, members of different social classes who fall in love aboard the ship during its ill-fated maiden voyage. When casting the role of Jack Dawson, various actors were considered including Matthew McConaughey, Chris O'Donnell, Billy Crudup and Stephen Dorff, but Cameron felt that a few of the actors were too old for the part of a twenty year-old. DiCaprio, 22 years old at the time, was brought to Cameron's attention by casting director Mali Finn. Initially, he did not want to portray the character, and refused to read his first romantic scene on the set. Cameron said, "He read it once, then started goofing around, and I could never get him to focus on it again. But for one split second, a shaft of light came down from the heavens and lit up the forest." Cameron strongly believed in DiCaprio's acting ability, and told him, "Look, I'm not going to make this guy brooding and neurotic. I'm not going to give him a tic and a limp and all the things you want." Cameron rather envisioned the character as a James Stewart type. Leonardo was eventually casted as Jack Dawson and accepted the role. When casting for the role of Rose DeWitt Bukater, Gwyneth Paltrow, Claire Danes, and Gabrielle Anwar had been considered to play "Rose ...

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