Random Movie Trivia - Titanic

Here is the next edition in our weekly Random Movie Trivia post.  Enjoy:

Titanic

• The studio wanted Matthew McConaughey for the lead role, but director James Cameron pushed for Leonardo DiCaprio.  Proving once again, Hollywood execs are stupid.
• Macaulay Culkin was also considered for the part of Jack.  Christian Bale auditioned for the role but Cameron didn't want two Brits playing the lead American roles.
• James Cameron has gone down to the real Titanic so much that he has spent more time in its presence than the passengers of that fateful voyage.
• When Leo is preparing to draw Kate Winslet, he tells her to "lie on that bed, I mean couch".  The line was scripted as "lie on that couch" but Leo messed it up, but Cameron liked the mistake and left it in.
• For the most part, the entire interior of the Titanic was built exactly the same as the real one except for little alterations here and there.  One such alteration was that the staircase was larger because people in the 1910's were on average shorter than today and it would have looked strange had they left it the same size.
• A full-size replica of the Titanic was built in a tank in Mexico for the movie.  The start of construction started on the 75th anniversary of the ship's sinking.
• They actually flooded the entire set for the epic sinking scene and only had one try at it because the water destroyed the whole set.
• On the final night of filming in Nova Scotia, some pranksters slipped PCP into that night's cast and crew's dinner.  80 people got sick and 50 people were taken to the hospital because of hallucinations.  James Cameron forced himself to vomit before the drug could take effect and Bill Paxton felt the ill effects for two weeks afterwards.  The culprits were never caught.
• The budget of this movie ($200 million) was more than the inflated cost of the Titanic ($150 million).
• This movie is the most Oscar-nominated movie (14 nominations) to not win in any acting categories.
• Kate Winslet got pneumonia while filming the water scenes and almost quit but Cameron talked her into staying.
• Rose says "Jack" 80 times in the movie and Jack says "Rose" 50 times.
• After finding out that she had to pose nude in front of Leo, Kate Winslet decided to break the ice early on and flashed him off-set.
• Gwyneth Paltrow, Nicole Kidman, Madonna, Jodie Foster, Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Aniston, and Sharon Stone were all considered for the part of Rose.
• The movie stayed in the theaters so long that Paramount had to send replacement reels of the film to theaters because the originals wore out.
• Billy Zane was cast after James Cameron saw him in The Phantom.  What?!?!
• Robert De Niro was offered the part of Captain Smith but had to turn it down because of illness.
• James Cameron met his fifth wife, Suzy Amis, on the set.  Of all of his marriages, this one lasted the longest.  Notice I didn't say it lasted.

"Yeah, this movie almost went from the 2nd highest grossing movie of all-time to a piece of shit."