Once upon a time in Hollywood, Paul Thomas Anderson offered Leonardo DiCaprio the role of a lifetime.

On Wednesday, the actor, 51, shared the moment he learned about the 1997 film “Boogie Nights.”

At Time magazine’s “A Year in Time” event, per The Hollywood Reporter , DiCaprio recounted “meeting Paul very early on in my career, when I was about to go do ‘Titanic,’ but we were talking about doing ‘Boogie Nights.'”

“I was in my mother’s living room, and I’ll never forget,” shared the Oscar winner, “I was on the couch and he brought a LaserDisc of ‘Raging Bull’ and a video cassette of pornography. And he said, ‘I want to do the ‘Raging Bull’ of pornography.'”

DiCaprio was only in his early 20’s and had starred in “This Boy’s Life” and “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape” (1993), and 1996’s “R

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