Long before he was an Oscar winner, a best-selling author, and the chillest guy to ever wear a button-down with only one button done, Matthew McConaughey, 55, was this close to starring in Titanic. According to samples of a new memoir by the late producer Jon Landau obtained by the What I'm

Six words reportedly cost Matthew McConaughey the lead role in Titanic: “No. That was pretty good. Thanks.” Producer Jon Landau, who worked on the majority of director James Cameron ’s feature films,

Matthew McConaughey wasn't quite "king of the world' material in the mid-'90s. In the forthcoming memoir The Bigger Picture, the late Titanic producer Jon Landau recalls the Interstellar actor's failed audition for the role of Jack in the epic, Oscar-winning disaster movie.