20 Things You Didn’t Know About The Movie “Titanic”



1. Studios wanted Matthew McConaughey to play Jack, but James Cameron insisted on having Leonardo DiCaprio play the role.

2. Gloria Stuart was the only person who worked on the film who was actually living in 1912 when the Titanic sunk.

With her nomination for Best Supporting Actress at age 87, Gloria Stuart became the oldest person to ever be nominated for an Oscar.

3. On the set of Titanic, Leonardo DiCaprio’s pet lizard was run over by a truck, but with some TLC, Leo nursed him back to life.

4. On the final night of shooting in Nova Scotia, one or more pranksters mixed PCP (angel dust) into the clam chowder served to the cast and crew. 80 people were sent to the hospital with hallucinations.

5. Reba McEntire was offered and had accepted the role of Molly Brown, but due to later schedule conflicts, had to turn it down.

6. Kate Winslet was one of the few actors who didn’t want to wear a wetsuit during the water scenes. As a result, she got pneumonia.

7. The cost to construct the Titanic in 1910-1912 was $7.5 million which was about $120 to $150 million in 1997 dollars. The movie cost $200 million to make.

8. Titanic was the first film to be released on video while it was still being shown in theaters.

9. Old Rose in the movie owns a Pomeranian. A Pomeranian was one of only three dogs known to have survived the disaster.

As the real ship sank, a passenger freed dogs from their kennels and a survivor later recalled a French bulldog swimming in the ocean. James Cameron filmed scenes portraying the poor animals but cut them.

10. James Cameron originally wanted Enya to compose the score for the film and even went so far as to assemble a rough edit using her music. When Enya declined, Cameron hired James Horner.

11. James Cameron drew all the pictures in Jack’s sketchbook. The hands seen sketching Rose were not Jack’s but Cameron’s.

12. After filming, the remains of the ship were sold as scrap metal.

13. Gwyneth Paltrow was up for the role of Rose.

Nicole Kidman, Madonna, Jodie Foster, Cameron Diaz and Sharon Stone were all considered for Rose as well.

14. After finding out that she was going to be naked in front of Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet decided to break the ice by flashing him the first time they met.

15. The water was 3 feet deep.

16. In the scene where the water comes crashing into the Grand Staircase room, the film makers only had one shot at it because the entire set and furnishings were going to be destroyed in the shot.

17. The stuntmen in the engine room scenes were only about 5 feet tall to make the engine room look bigger.

18. The film was originally called “Planet Ice”.

It was a decoy title.

19. James Cameron spent more time with the ship than its living passengers did.

20. After James Cameron finished the script, he discovered that there was a real “J. Dawson” who died aboard the Titanic.


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