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Actress Claire Danes has “zero” regrets about turning down Titanic, saying that she had no interest in the level of fame the film brought Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio.
The “Homeland” actress says she bowed out of consideration for the Oscar-winning blockbuster, letting the lead role ultimately go to actress Kate Winslet back in 1996, largely because the part felt all too familiar.
Danes had just wrapped Baz Luhrmann’s “Romeo + Juliet” with DiCaprio, and was looking for a different type of venture, reports aceshowbiz.com.
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“I had just made this romantic epic with Leo in Mexico City, which is where they were going to shoot ‘Titanic’! And I just didn’t have it in me!” Danes said during a sit down with Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast.
The 40-year-old recalls DiCaprio himself wrestling with the decision to take on the James Cameron epic, recounting a conversation they had outside their mutual manager’s office.
“And he just looked up at me and said: ‘I’m doing it! I’m doing it!’ And I could see he wasn’t sure. But he was like, ‘F**k it, I gotta do this thing.'”
Danes added that she could not see herself grappling with the global attention the actor received following the film’s release.