{"id":287302,"date":"2020-01-28T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1117096"},"modified":"2020-01-28T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T23:30:00","slug":"why-claire-danes-decided-not-to-do-titanic-with-leonardo-dicaprio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/why-claire-danes-decided-not-to-do-titanic-with-leonardo-dicaprio\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Claire Danes Decided Not to Do Titanic With Leonardo DiCaprio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-0-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2020028\/rs_1024x759-200128143127-1024-Titanic-Claire-Danes.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Claire Danes, Leonardo DiCaprio, Titanic\" alt=\"Claire Danes, Leonardo DiCaprio, Titanic\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"759\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Moviestore Collection\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"43.644097222222\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"30.361111111111\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/claire_danes\">Claire Danes<\/a><\/strong> wasn&#8217;t ready for the fame that would surely come from <em>Titanic<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The actress has revealed that the beloved 1997 movie, starring <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kate_winslet\">Kate Winslet<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/leonardo_dicaprio\">Leonardo DiCaprio<\/a><\/strong>, almost had a different cast. While on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/dax_shepard\">Dax Shepard<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Armchair Expert<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/armchairexpertpod.com\/pods\/claire-danes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">podcast<\/a> this week, Danes said that she has &#8220;zero&#8221; regrets about walking away from the role opposite DiCaprio, despite being a &#8220;big Leo fan.&#8221; The stars had actually just filmed <em>Romeo + Juliet<\/em> together before production on <em>Titanic<\/em> began.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if she got offered <em>Titanic<\/em>, Danes told Shepard, &#8220;I think I did. I&#8217;m not entirely clear on that. There was strong interest, but honestly, I&#8217;d just made this romantic epic with Leo in Mexico City, which is where they were going to shoot <em>Titanic<\/em>, and I just didn&#8217;t have it in me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I remember, Leo and I shared a manager at the time, and we were there at the office. And I was on a balcony, which is funny&#8230;and Leo had this rental red convertible&#8230;and he was kinda going in circles in the parking lot,&#8221; Danes recalled. &#8220;And I knew he was wrestling with the decision to do that movie or not and he just looked up at me, and he said, &#8216;I&#8217;m doing it. I&#8217;m doing it.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"61\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"12\">\n<p>&#8220;And I could see he wasn&#8217;t sure, but he was like, &#8216;F&#8211;k it, I gotta do this thing.'&#8221; Danes said. &#8220;And I looked down on him going, I totally understand why you are doing it. And I&#8217;m not ready for that. And I think I really wasn&#8217;t ready for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Danes went on to explain that she didn&#8217;t want the intense amount of fame that came along with the <em>Titanic<\/em> role, and she later witnessed it happen to DiCaprio after the movie was released.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"35\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"33\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/202007\/rs_634x1024-200107092500-634-Leonardo-DiCaprio-Clare-Danes-LT-010720-GettyImages-480317497.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Leonardo DiCaprio, Clare Danes, 90s\" alt=\"Leonardo DiCaprio, Clare Danes, 90s\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Ron Galella, Ltd.\/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"7\">\n<p>The <em>Homeland<\/em> actress then explained to Shepard why she has &#8220;zero&#8221; regrets about turning down the role.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was just really clear about it,&#8221; Danes said. &#8220;I wasn&#8217;t conflicted, I wasn&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"35\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"10\">\n<p>&#8220;I was just feeling eager to have different creative experiences, that felt like a repeat,&#8221; Danes explained. &#8220;And, as I said, I think it was gonna propel me towards something that I knew I didn&#8217;t have the resources to cope with. And I knew I had to do a lot of foundation building.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can hear Danes talk more about her career on the latest episode of <em>Armchair Expert<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"32\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Watch <i>E! News<\/i> weekday mornings at 7 a.m.!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1117096\/why-claire-danes-decided-not-to-do-titanic-with-leonardo-dicaprio?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moviestore Collection\/Shutterstock Claire Danes wasn&#8217;t ready for the fame that would surely come from Titanic. The actress has revealed that the beloved 1997 movie, starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, almost had a different cast. While on Dax Shepard&#8216;s Armchair Expert podcast this week, Danes said that she has &#8220;zero&#8221; regrets about walking away from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-02 02:44:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}