1) Leo wasn't the fitst choice for the part of Jack. Screenwriter and director James Cameron considered Matthew McConaughey and Chris O'Donnell before deciding that both actors were too old to play the part of the poor artist
2) Kate Winslet was so wowed by the role of Rose that after her screen test she sent Cameron a single rose with a card signed "From Your Rose" and followed it up with a personal phone cal. The ploy worked! She swiped the part out from fellow contenders Gwyneth Paltrow, Claire Danes, and Gabrielle Anwar.
3) Cameron named Rose after his grandmother Rose Cameron, a school teacher who always encouraged him to read.
4) This was Leo's first million-dollar-plus paycheck. But he origanally wasn't sold on the role and encouraged Cameron to make the the character of Jack more "interesting".
5) Extra! Extra! Titanic Star Kate Winslet Nearly Drowns. Well, not exactly...but that's what a supermarket tabloid published after hearing about a mishap on the set. Here's the real deal: While she was running away from the huge rushing wave, Kate got her long coat stuck on a gate and was briefly trapped underwater until she could remove the costume
6) Thirty lifeguards kept constant watch over the 17-million-gallon water tank where much of the movie's filming took place. Not one of the cast of 150 (or the 200 extras or 800 crew members)drowned, although three stuntmen broke bones. 7) Since the shots on the decks of the shi[p were filmed in sunny, hot Mexico special effects artists jad to digitally add the white puffs of breath that come out of the actors' mouths so the scenes would look like a trip across the icy Atlantic not a Caribbean cruise.
8) While on location in Mexico, Leo was so homesick for his L.A friends that he had them flown down to be with him. (He usually has a clause in his contract that enables his pals to fly for for free to wherever he is filming) Among the star's closet comrades are his Titanic assistant, Jonah Johnson, and fellow actors tobey Maguire, Kevin Conolly, Vincent Laresca, Dash Mihok and Ethan Suplee
9) Three weeks into production, while shooting in Nova Scotia, about 50 cast and crew members were reportedly hospitalized after falling ill from tainted lobster chowder. Authorities smelled something fishy and investigated. Turns out someone had laced the seafood with the drug PCP (The perppetrator was never found)
10) Remember when the ship's bridge was flooded by water crshing through the windows? It was one of the most dangerous sequences in the movie. Director Cameron, an experienced scuba diver, filmed the whole scene himself wearing a wet suit and crash helmet.
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