Todays trivia: Facts about Titanic, the movie: On the last night - TopicsExpress

Todays trivia: Facts about Titanic, the movie: On the last night of filming, someone laced the cast and crew’s clam chowder with PCP and 80 people on set ended up in the hospital. The studios wanted Matthew McConaughey to play Jack, but James Cameron wouldn’t take any actor but Leonardo DiCaprio. It was the first movie to go on sale while still showing in theaters. James Cameron himself drew all the illustrations in Jack’s sketchbook. In the scene where Jack draws Kate, it’s Cameron’s hand sketching her, not Leo’s. When Kate found out she’d have to bare all in front of Leo, she flashed him when they first met to get that first awkward moment out of the way. Though Cameron didn’t know it when making the film, there was an actual J. Dawson who died on the Titanic. Some theaters literally wore out their reels of the film. Paramount had to then provide them with new ones.