If Jeremy Jackson hadn't come along, Leonardo DiCaprio could have
frolicked on the beach alongside Pamela Anderson, Carmen Electra, and
Yasmine Bleeth. In an interview with Movieline,
former "Baywatch" star David Hasselhoff reveals the "Great Gatsby" star
auditioned to play his son Hobie on the longrunning soap--but was
ultimately beat out for the role by Jackson, 31.
"It was the best thing to happen to Leonardo DiCaprio," Hasselhoff
says, laughing. "I saw Leonardo DiCaprio and I said, 'You know what,
that was the best thing that ever happened to you! You would have never
gotten 'Titanic' and have been this big star. You'd be like Jeremy
Jackson and David, looking for work.'"
Had DiCaprio, 37, landed the role, he would have joined the ranks of
A-listers like Mila Kunis and Michelle Williams, who both appeared on
the show before they hit it big.
During her stint on the show, Jeremy Jackson enjoyed a brief on-set
romance with Williams. (The "My Week With Marilyn" star was 12 at the
time.)
"We messed around," he told Howard Stern in 2011. "She was kind of like my first crush, puppy dog love."
Kunis appeared on the drama in 1995, and says even at the age of 12, she had a hard time believing her character.
"I
played a blind girl who's lost in the forest next to the beach and
needs to be saved. It was absurd," Kunis told W magazine last year.
"There's a fire, I get saved, and then I go boogie-boarding. I remember
thinking, Well, if I'm blind, how am I boogie-boarding? No one ever gave
me an answer."
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