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

In Titanic producer Jon Landau's latest memoir, the filmmaker revealed that Matthew McConaughey missed out on playing Jack Dawson in the James Cameron directorial because he would not do without his Texan accent.

The details of McConaughey's audition gone wrong are mentioned in "Titanic" producer Jon Landau's posthumous memoir, "The Bigger Picture."