Leonardo DiCaprio and Billy Zane Have Small “Titanic” Reunion on the Red Carpet 28 Years After Film's Release

It was a mini Titanic reunion for Leonardo DiCaprio and Billy Zane as nan 2 actors were pictured together astatine nan premiere of One Battle After Another successful Hollywood connected Monday, Sept. 8, 2025.

DiCaprio starred arsenic Jack successful nan 1997 film. Zane played nan arrogant Cal Hockley, who was engaged to Jack's emotion interest, Rose (played by Kate Winslet).

DiCaprio, 50, stars successful filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another, as a erstwhile revolutionary fig who is being hunted by constabulary serviceman Steven Lockjaw.

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The actors person been pictured together since Titanic, including astatine nan 2017 Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation’s (LDF) yearly kindness auction successful St. Tropez, France.

Speaking to PEOPLE successful a 2018 interview, Zane said fans "love to hate" his Titanic character.

"And past location is simply a mini service of those who sympathize and understand he was conscionable a merchandise of bad programming. You perceive it all. 'How could you?' aliases 'Poor bastard,' " he added.

While he had acted successful ample projects prior, DiCaprio's profession took disconnected after Titanic. He has since been nominated for 5 Oscars, winning successful 2016 for nan film The Revenant, pinch Winslet cheering him connected passim awards season.

In an exclusive question and reply pinch PEOPLE astatine the Golden Globes in 2023, Titanic head James Cameron said he had to person DiCaprio to return nan role.

"He didn't want to do a starring man," recalled Cameron. "I had to really twist his limb to beryllium successful nan movie. He didn't want to do it. He thought it was boring."

The filmmaker added that while DiCaprio yet "accepted nan part" of nan ill-fated Jack, it was "only erstwhile I convinced him that it was really a difficult challenge."

"It didn't astonishment me, first of all, that he's made a batch of authentic choices going forward," Cameron adds. "And secondly, I ne'er doubted his talent."

Zane, meanwhile, has besides been acting consistently since Titanic, churning retired aggregate projects, specified arsenic nan film The Believer (with Ryan Gosling) and connected TV in Charmed, Community and The Boys. He besides took to nan shape for a stint connected Broadway in Chicago.