Perhaps to make up for the time DiCaprio schooled McConaughey on landing a Titanic audition.
In an interview with Rob Lowe, McConaughey admitted his audition went so well that he was confident he had nailed the part.
One long-standing legend was that Matthew McConaughey was set to play the lead role of Jack Dawson until Leonardo DiCaprio came into the picture.
As far as McConaughey was concerned, he was able to recover from his failed Titanic audition and go on to make a string of critically and commercially successful movies.