Bill Hader‘s time working for a movie theater clearly wasn’t going to be everlasting.
The Emmy winner recalled on a recent episode of Netflix’s Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney the time he got fired from his cinema job “for ruining the end of Titanic” for a group of sorority girls.
“I was working in a movie theater, and Titanic hadn’t come out yet, and a sorority had bought out the movie theater and they were in the doorway and I was going, ‘Hey, guys. Can you guys move?’” the Saturday Night Live alum explained. “They were making fun of me. They said I looked like Charles Manson. Which I kinda did. I had a little bowtie on and cummerbund, and I was like, ‘Hey guys, please move.’ And they were like, ‘No.’”
Hader continued, “So when they went in, as I tore the tickets, I was like, ‘Enjoy the movie. The boat sinks at the end. Leo dies.’ And they were like, ‘No, he doesn’t.’ I go, ‘Yeah, you think he’s asleep. But he’s frozen.’ And that showed them.”
However, the Barry star said his boss had to fire him on the spot due to his actions. “The [manager] came down smiling, and he was like, ‘Hey, Bill. I have to fire you.’ He loved it,” Hader said. “Couldn’t look me in the eye, though.”
In the 1997 Oscar-winning film directed by James Cameron, Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, Jack, was unable to fit on the floating door with Kate Winslet’s Rose, ultimately dying in the freezing water. However, the ending has sparked debate online for years, as some believe Jack could have survived.
In 2023, amid the 25th anniversary of Titanic, Cameron conducted a scientific study to assess whether there was enough room for both Jack and Rose on the door. After several tests, the filmmaker determined, “Jack might’ve lived, but there’s a lot of variables.”
However, Cameron noted that Jack would still choose to do anything to save Rose in the end, adding, “I think his thought process was, I’m not going to do one thing that jeopardizes her. And that’s 100 percent in character.”