Matthew McConaughey could have starred as Jack Dawson in "Titanic," but a new excerpt from a late producer's memoir claims he refused to drop his accent during his audition.

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,

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.