These 25 Actors Passed on the Role of a Lifetime, but Most of Them Didn't Regret It

In the years following Titanic, DiCaprio pretty much had his pick of top-notch roles and was offered the part of Patrick Bateman in American Psycho. According to Guinevere Turner, who played Elizabeth in the movie, Gloria Steinem supposedly talked DiCaprio out of taking the part.

"Gloria Steinem, as legend would have it," Turner recalled, "took [DiCaprio] to a baseball game and said, 'Please don't do this movie. You're the biggest movie star in the world right now, and teenage girls are living for you, and I really don't want them all to run to the theater to see a movie where you're a man who kills women.'" DiCaprio did, in fact, back out of the movie, and Christian Bale was cast instead.