Leonardo DiCaprio‘s turn in James Cameron’s Titanic, which catapulted the then-22-year-old film star to bona fide heartthrob status as the sweeping romance drama broke box office records, almost didn’t happen — if John C. Reilly had it his way.
The Oscar-nominated character actor recently popped by Ted Danson’s Where Everybody Knows Your Name podcast for a conversation, reminiscing about his time coming up in the industry alongside “best friend” Paul Thomas Anderson, with whom he had become “thick as thieves” after the Valley-hailing director invited him to a Sundance Institute workshop.
Before his feature debut with 1996’s Hard
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