Matthew McConaughey was nearly cast as Jack Dawson in the 1997 blockbuster ‘Titanic’, but his audition with director James Cameron reportedly ended badly.
Details about the failed audition have emerged from the posthumous book The Bigger Picture by the film’s producer Jon Landau, as reported in journalist Matthew Belloni’s newsletter What I’m Hearing. The revelation sheds new light on how one of cinema’s most iconic roles almost went to the Texas-born actor instead of Leonardo DiCaprio.
