Matthew McConaughey missed out on iconic Titanic role that could have changed entire movie

We all know and love Titanic, but what would it have been like had the casting director gone for Matthew McConaughey in one of the key characters?

We all know how that movie went, and it was absolutely tragic.

I’ll run through it again to bring up your past trauma surrounding Jack Dawson and that piece of floating door.

Basically, James Cameron’s 1997 flick Titanic starred Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio as they told the tale of a fictional couple onboard the real-life wreckage of the British RMS Titanic in 1912.

Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet were the best duo (Paramount Pictures)

DiCaprio played Jack Dawson in the romance movie while Winslet portrayed his love interest, Rose DeWitt Bukater.

The pair fall in love, despite the fact that Rose is engaged to a right n*b head, and they go on to have some fantastic and iconic scenes together.

We’re thinking about the hand print in the car, aren’t we?

Anyway, it all goes to sh*t in the end when the ship starts to sink after hitting an iceberg and Rose and Jack end up in the icy waters.

By the way, that was actually filmed in a pool.

Then, there came a floating door, which clearly could have fit two people on it, but Cameron decided to hurt everyone for the next few decades when he had Jack freeze to death in the ocean.

Right, now that I’ve got that out of the way, here’s how it could have gone had they chosen someone else to play Jack.

McConaughey admitted that he was reportedly handpicked picked by Paramount Studios to play Jack, but ended up missing out on the role.

The actor spoke about it on Rob Lowe's podcast Literally! with Rob Lowe in 2021 and shared how it all went down.

Matthew McConaughey could have been Jack (Paramount Pictures)

He recalled: “So I went and read with Kate Winslet and it was not one of the auditions - they filmed it so it was like into screen test time.

“After we left, you know, it was one of those ones where they, like, followed me and when we got outside they were like, 'That went great.' I mean, kind of, like, hugs.

“I really thought it was going to happen. It did not.”

Had he been casted it may have changed the course of the film.

Obviously, we all know of Leo and Kate, but what about Matthew and Kate?

It just doesn’t have the same ring to it.

If he’d of been Jack in 1997, that means we wouldn’t have gotten the masterpiece that was Contact which saw him star alongside Jodie Foster in the alien sci-fi flick.

Compared to Titanic, his portfolio was right up there for thriller and suspense films.

So, maybe it was a good job he never got it.