DiCaprio: 'I wasn't me after Titanic'
Leonardo DiCaprio has revealed that he didn't feel himself after appearing in Titanic.
The actor told Esquire that he became a "thing" because of the success of the 1997 film.
"It wasn't the era of penetrating internet paparazzi that we have now," he explained. "But I wasn't me anymore. I was sort of this thing.
"Kate [Winslet] felt it too. But a lot of the attention was on me because of the teenage girls who repeatedly went to see the movie. I had the blond hair and I was Jack Dawson, this heroic figure."
DiCaprio added that the film's director James Cameron can be a challenge to work with.
"Jim knows exactly what he wants," he said. "Needless to say, when somebody felt a different way on the set of Titanic, there was a confrontation. Jim had it out with them right there in front of everybody. He lets you know exactly how he feels.
"But he's of the lineage of John Ford. He knows what he wants his film to be. I remember sitting in a theatre after it was done and being in awe. He got what he wanted."
Last month, Winslet admitted that the fame she received after appearing in Titanic "overwhelmed" her.
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