Titanic was a breakthrough film for Leonardo DiCaprio, 51, but the legendary actor probably wouldn't remember how good it is. He says he hasn't seen the movie in years.
The actor sat down with fellow Academy Award winner Jennifer Lawrence, 35, for the Wednesday (Dec. 17) installment of Variety's Actors on Actors. Around the 15-minute mark of the video below, DiCaprio recalled passing on 1997 comedy-drama Boogie Nights for Titanic because the projects "overlapped."
"Maybe it could have worked out," he admitted.
When Lawrence asked if DiCaprio had watched the James Cameron-directed movie, the actor was honest.
"No. I haven’t seen it in forever," he said.
Lawrence insisted that DiCaprio could probably rewatch Titanic now that nearly 30 years have passed, but the entertainer still wasn't convinced.
"I don't really watch, maybe I do, some movies I've watched. Do you watch your movies a lot?" DiCaprio asked.
"No. I’ve never made something like Titanic, if I did I would watch it," Lawrence replied, adding that she was "really drunk" during a rewatch of her 2013 crime comedy American Hustle.
"I was like, 'I wonder if I’m good at acting?'" Lawrence joked.
Titanic, which also starred Kate Winslet, was a blockbuster epic, grossing $2.2 billion globally. In the three-hour film, DiCaprio starred as protagonist Jack Dawson, an underprivileged ship passenger who falls in love with Rose DeWitt Bukater (Winslet).
In a 2016 interview with Deadline, DiCaprio said that Titanic was an "experiment" for him and his co-star.
"We’d done all of these independent movies. I loved her as an actress and she said, 'Let’s do this together, we can do this,'" he said at the time. "We did it, and it became something that we could’ve never foreseen."
