{"id":144236,"date":"2025-08-14T05:04:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T05:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/144236\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T05:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T05:04:12","slug":"leonardo-dicaprio-regrets-turning-down-masterpiece-movie-for-titanic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/144236\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonardo DiCaprio \u2018regrets\u2019 turning down \u2018masterpiece\u2019 movie for Titanic"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Leonardo DiCaprio<\/a> has starred in some of the most famous films of the last 30 years \u2013 but there\u2019s one he regrets<\/a> turning down.<\/p>\n

The Oscar-winning star, 50, has revealed that he rejected the opportunity to star in Boogie Nights, Paul Thomas Anderson<\/a>\u2019s 1997 drama about the porn industry. His decision, however, freed him up to star in Titanic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While the blockbuster success of Titanic shot DiCaprio to Hollywood superstardom, it seems that given the chance to turn back the clocks, the actor would choose Boogie Nights over James Cameron\u2019s film<\/a> about the doomed ocean liner.<\/p>\n

DiCaprio was interviewed by Anderson in a new Esquire profile<\/a>. Asked if he had \u201cany regrets\u201d, the Wolf of Wall Street star replied: \u201cI\u2019ll say it even though you\u2019re here: my biggest regret is not doing Boogie Nights. It was a profound movie of my generation.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cWhen I finally got to see that movie, I just thought it was a masterpiece. It\u2019s ironic that you\u2019re the person asking that question, but it\u2019s true.\u201d<\/p>\n

DiCaprio has long been rumoured to have been Anderson\u2019s first choice for the role of rising porn star Dirk Diggler, who was played by Mark Wahlberg. He added that, despite his regret over declining the part, he \u201ccan\u2019t imagine anyone\u201d in the role but Wahlberg.<\/p>\n

Boogie Nights, which chronicles the Golden Age of porn of the 1970s, launched Anderson\u2019s career after his modest debut Hard Eight was released in 1996. <\/p>\n

The film, which was shot at the same time DiCaprio filmed Titanic, also starred Julianne Moore, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, John C Reilly, Heather Graham, and Burt Reynolds, who received an Oscar nomination for his role. <\/p>\n

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Leonardo DiCaprio turned own \u2018Boogie Nights\u2019 due to \u2018Titanic\u2019 \u2013 but he said he \u2018regrets\u2019 it (20th Century Fox \/ New Line Cinema)<\/p>\n

Reynolds reportedly distanced himself from the film ahead of his Oscar nomination, and fired his agent for securing him the role. However, before his death in September 2018, he called the film \u201cextraordinary.<\/p>\n

Anderson went on to direct acclaimed films including Magnolia (1999), There Will Be Blood (2007), and Phantom Thread (2017). <\/p>\n

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Leonardo DiCaprio in new Paul Thomas Anderson film \u2018One Battle After Another\u2019 (Warner Bros Pictures)<\/p>\n

The American director\u2019s new film, One Battle after Another, has been 20 years in the making and marks the first time he has ever worked with DiCaprio. It follows a former member of a revolutionary group who seeks help from other revolutionaries to find his missing daughter, and is released on 26 September.<\/p>\n

One of the most successful actors of his generation, DiCaprio has been feted with several awards. He won his first Oscar for The Revenant in 2016, and has been nominated a total of six times for films including Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), The Aviator (2004) and 1993 film What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?, which he starred in when he was 19. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":144237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[171,53,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-144236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115025377265701473","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}