He’s still big. It’s the extras that got small, director James Cameron revealed in an interview this week about his 1997 film, Titanic.
The filmmaker chatted with the Los Angeles Times this week and said that the film’s budget expanded by the need to build enormous and complicated sets, in addition to a replica of the ocean liner that was full-scale and 800-feet-long.
The 1997 film’s production costs ballooned to the biggest budget ever to that point. That led Cameron to try to lasso costs to quell studio panic.
One way was to cut down on the size of the cast. Literally. “We only cast short extras, so it made our set look bigger. Anybody above five-feet-eight, we didn’t cast them.
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