Gwyneth Paltrow Could've Played Rose In Titanic As for Rose DeWitt Bukater, the role was offered to Gwyneth Paltrow, Winona Ryder, Claire Danes, Gabrielle Anwar, and Reese Witherspoon. After they all turned it down, Kate Winslet began to campaign for it, sending notes to Cameron until she was invited to audition.
Director James Cameron almost cast Gwyneth Paltrow as Rose in Titanic because he didn't want the casting to be too obvious, but ultimately decided on Kate Winslet.
Claire Danes reveals she was offered the role of Rose in Titanic before Kate Winslet but declined because she felt unprepared after starring with Leonardo DiCaprio in Romeo + Juliet.
Winona Ryder, Gweneth Paltrow, and Uma Thurman were up for the part of Rose, so was Claire Daines but she didn't want to be in another romantic film with Leo. I personally think Kate Winslet was the best choice. Reba McEntire was considered for Molly Brown and just, no. Cathy abates was perfect casting there.
While in the film, Rose is drawn from life by her love-interest Jack Dawson, this was not the case in real life. It was not Leonardo DiCaprio who sketched the drawing, but instead the writer/director of Titanic James Cameron.
Some artifacts recovered from the Titanic's wreckage included a number made of paper, which were saved because of their storage in leather bags or such; it is therefore possible for Jack's sketch of Rose to have survived as shown.
The man who was originally meant to play Jack? Matthew McConaughey. “I auditioned with Matthew, isn't that weird?” Winslet told Colbert. “Never said that in public before.
Gwyneth Paltrow turned down the role of Rose in Titanic, jokingly stating that she chose other films with "great characters and stories" instead of a movie about a ship.
How old was the actress who played old rose in Titanic?
She made a prominent return to mainstream cinema at age 86 when she was cast as the 100-year-old elder Rose Dawson Calvert in Titanic (1997), which earned her numerous accolades and renewed attention.
But the two stars who came closest to landing the role before DiCaprio was offered the part are believed to be Matthew McConaughey and Jeremy Sisto, both of whom went so far as to audition alongside Kate Winslet.
Movie buffs have claimed you can spot the exact moment in Titanic when Kate Winslet's stunt double appears on screen instead of her. An eagle-eyed fan spotted something amiss in one scene, in which Rose DeWitt Bukater (Winslet) and Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) try to escape a wall of water.
In a deleted scene, she was last seen boarding the Carpathia. She has survived the disaster, but is led to believe that Rose is dead. A clearly heartbroken Ruth is seen looking for her daughter, likely realising she cared about her too late. Her character isn't seen again after this scene that didn't make the cut.
Reece Thompson, now a digital marketing director in Utah, played the role of an Irish third-class passenger in James Cameron's 1998 hit when he was five.
By auditioning incessantly. after Kate Winslet read the script of Titanic, she bugged James Cameron until he cast her, she send him postcards, phone calls, and campaigned to get Rose.
Angelina was not the star we know today back then. She auditioned for the part of Rose just after “Hackers” in which she was the lead. Missing this part didn't affect her career much though as she would soon win her first Oscar in 1999 (Girl, Interrupted).
Louise Pope lived a long life after surviving the sinking of the Titanic, but she had very little direct memory of the tragedy. She was just four years old when the ship struck an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland in April of 1912.
Actress Gloria Stuart, who played an elderly shipwreck survivor in the film Titanic, has died at the age of 100. The blonde actress appeared in several films during the 1930s, before retiring from acting in 1946.
New York, U.S.A. Jack Dawson (born 1892-1912) is the deuteragonist in Titanic and the love interest of Rose DeWitt Bukater. He dies at the end of the film from hypothermia, protecting Rose by having her float on a doorframe while he stays in the water; he was only twenty years old.
Rose changed her last name to "Dawson" to honor Jack's memory after the sinking of the Titanic. Rose completely started over and never contacted her mother and Cal again after the sinking. Rose became a successful actress in the 1920s and eventually married a man named Calvert.
In an interview with Vanity Fair, Cameron was asked directly, "Why doesn't Rose make room for Jack on the door?" To which he replied, "And the answer is very simple because it says on page 147 [of the script] that Jack dies.
