However, the lizard did survive thanks to his owner’s special care to nurse him back to health.įact #6: Kate Winslet was not able to wear a wet suit due to the dresses she wore, when filming the sinking scenes, she got pneumonia and almost quit the movie. Kathy Bates is very memorable in the Titanic movie as Margaret Brown and it is hard to imagine either one of those actresses taking her place.įact #5: During the filming of the Titanic movie, Leonardo DiCaprio brought along his pet lizard, which was then but by a truck. Some actresses Cameron was thinking about were Reba McEntire and Barbara Streisand. Can you imagine Jack Dawson played by Tom Cruise? The Titanic movie would have been very different if someone other than Leonardo DiCaprio had been cast.įact #2: Some of the most memorable scenes in the movie, which include Jack teaching Rose to spit, the scene at the bow with “King of the World,” and Rose spitting in Cal’s face were not part of the script and were completely created on the spot by the actors.įact #3: All of the scenes of the Titanic movie that show the actual Titanic ship leaving port, while on the journey, and sinking, is approximately 2 hours and 40 minutes, which is exactly how long the real Titanic took to sink.įact#4: When it came time to cast Margaret Brown, James Cameron had several actresses in mind before he chose Kathy Bates. Another famous name that the studios told to Cameron was Brad Pitt, but he had his heart set on Leonardo DiCaprio and finally won out in the end. While Titanic is now the second highest movie ever, behind another James Cameron film, Avatar, it is still loved by millions and still has many box office records that have yet to be broken.įact #1: When James Cameron pitched the idea of Titanic to the big studios, he told them about Leonardo DiCaprio, but they thought he was too unknown and wanted him to use a big time celebrity, Tom Cruise.
In 1997, Titanic came out, and while the press was already saying it would be a flip because of the size of the budget it had, the fact is that Titanic broke records, stayed on top for 14 weeks, and for 12 years, it was the highest grossing movie of all time.
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