Overview
- Speaking on Hello Sunshine's The Bright Side Podcast, McConaughey called the accent story a rumor and said there was never any discussion about his voice.
- He said the outcome was straightforward, explaining that he just didn't get the job despite a "great" audition with Kate Winslet.
- He recalled asking James Cameron directly to dispel a separate rumor that he had been offered the role and turned it down.
- An excerpt from the late producer Jon Landau's upcoming memoir, previewed in August in Matthew Belloni's newsletter, describes McConaughey reading with a Southern drawl and allegedly declining to try a different accent.
- The part went to Leonardo DiCaprio, and McConaughey later worked with him in 2013's The Wolf of Wall Street.