Matthew McConaughey has clarified that he “didn’t turn down” Titanic.<\/p>\n
The 56-year-old star has dismissed claims that he rejected the chance to play Jack Dawson in James Cameron’s acclaimed 1997 movie \u2013 a part that ultimately went to Leonardo DiCaprio.<\/p>\n
Speaking on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, McConaughey said: “I’ve been told many times, ‘Hey, I can’t believe you turned down Titanic.’<\/p>\n
“I’m like, ‘I didn’t turn down Titanic.’ And they’re like, ‘Well, (James) Cameron said (that)’, and I said, ‘I never got offered that part.’ And if I did, I need to find that agent. That agent owes me money.”<\/p>\n
The Interstellar actor continued: “I never got offered that. So, whatever that mixed story is, I had heard that. The truth is, I never got offered that.”<\/p>\n
However, McConaughey did confirm that he auditioned for the role of Jack.<\/p>\n
The Oscar-winning actor said: “I did have a great \u2013 what I thought \u2013 was a great audition. The producers were there. I had it with Kate (Winslet). Um, I walked out of there feeling like, ‘I think I got that role.’ And did not.”<\/p>\n
Titanic’s late producer Jon Landau previously recalled how McConaughey squandered his opportunity to star in Titanic after auditioning in his trademark Texan drawl.<\/p>\n
Landau, who died aged 63 in 2024, wrote in the memoir The Bigger Picture: “Matthew did the scene with the drawl.<\/p>\n
“‘That’s great’, said Jim (Cameron). ‘Now let’s try it a different way.’ Matthew said, ‘No. That was pretty good. Thanks.’ Let’s just say, that was it for McConaughey.”<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, McConaughey branded the 2003 film How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days as his “favourite” romantic comedy as it still rakes in plenty of money for him.<\/p>\n
He said: “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days is the gift that keeps on giving. I think it’s probably my favourite romcom I’ve done.”<\/p>\n
“And it still pays the best mailbox money of any film I’ve ever done. By far. By lengths.”<\/p>\n
The True Detective star explained how he would always receive a big windfall in the weeks following Valentine’s Day.<\/p>\n
McConaughey said: “When it used to be just DVDs or cable, every March I’d get a big cheque because Valentine’s Day.<\/p>\n
“But, I mean, look: the movie for me, for that genre, let me just own that genre. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days \u2026 that’s a real anchor in the rom-com genre through time.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matthew McConaughey has clarified that he “didn’t turn down” Titanic. The 56-year-old star has dismissed claims that he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,53933,41244,53934,53932,53935],"class_list":["post-168283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-jack-dawson","tag-james-cameron","tag-jon-landau","tag-matthew-mcconaughey","tag-mcconaughey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}