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 reportedly talked DiCaprio out of taking the part.
"Gloria Steinem, as legend would have it, 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 theatre to see a movie where you're a man who kills women,'" Turner recalled. DiCaprio did, in fact, back out of the movie, and Christian Bale was cast instead.