Having already made his title together with his efficiency in 1993’s What’s Consuming Gilbert Grape alongside Mary Steenburgen, the longer term Oscar winner was picked to star in James Cameron’s Titanic.
However Reilly, 61, has now admitted he strongly pushed DiCaprio towards ditching the longer term traditional and starring alongside him in Paul Thomas Anderson’s porn business movie Boogie Nights, whereas branding the chance to seem in Titanic pointless and boring as audiences knew how the movie would finish.
Reilly stated: “On the time we had been making an attempt to get Boogie Nights put collectively, being in porn was considered taboo. It is arduous to even think about now, you in all probability keep in mind.
“All these actors and their managers and their brokers had been like, ‘Porn? Whoa, whoa, man. No. No.’ And there is a penis within the film! Everybody, ‘no, no, no, no.'”
The actor defined Anderson had desperately wished DiCaprio to play Dirk Diggler within the raunchy film earlier than the position ultimately went to Mark Wahlberg.
Reilly stated: “Earlier than Mark was requested to do the film, Paul actually wished Leo DiCaprio to do it.
“And I had already executed What’s Consuming Gilbert Grape with Mary and Leo, and I knew Leo. I met him when he was 17. And I used to be like, ‘Give me the project, Paul. I will get this man to do your film. I’ve recognized him since he is a child.'”