Ethan Hawke is relieved he didn’t land the role of Jack Dawson in James Cameron’s iconic 1997 blockbuster, Titanic.

In a Monday interview with GQ to promote his new FX series The Lowdown, the actor, 54, said, “I don’t think I would have handled that success as well as Leo,” remarking, “he was a f---ing Beatle.”

Leonardo DiCaprio became a household name after securing the lead role in the film at just 22. Upon the film’s release, DiCaprio, now 50, was adored by young girls in the fashion of Beatle fan worship, a phenomenon that was coined “Leo-mania.”

“I have no connection with me during that whole Titanic phenomenon and what my face became around the world,” DiCaprio told Time in 2000. The intense attention he experienced immediately after the film is “not something I’m going to try t

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