Long before Bill Hader was a “Saturday Night Live” icon and a “Barry” Emmy winner, he worked at a movie theater selling tickets. It didn’t go so well. Appearing on Netflix’s “Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney,” Hader told the hilarious story of how a movie theater once fired him for getting revenge on a group of bratty sorority girls by spoiling the ending of “Titanic.”
“I got fired from a movie theater for ruining the end of ‘Titanic,’” Hader said. “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?’ 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.’”
“So when they went in, as I tore the tickets, I was like, ‘Enjoy the movie. The boat sinks at the end. Leo dies,’” he continued. “And they were like, ‘No, he doesn’t.’ I go, ‘Yeah, you think he’s asleep. But he’s frozen.’ And that showed them.”
Hader concluded, “The [manager] came down smiling, and he was like, ‘Hey, Bill. I have to fire you.’ He loved it. Couldn’t look me in the eye, though.”
DiCaprio’s character, Jack, does die at the end of “Titanic,” a plot decision that has sparked endless debates in the decades since the James Cameron blockbuster opened in 1997. Many viewers claim there was enough room on the floating door for both Jack and Rose (Kate Winslet) to survive the freezing waters, but Cameron conducted a “scientific study” in 2022 that proved two people could not have survived.
“We have done a scientific study to put this whole thing to rest and drive a stake through its heart once and for all,” Cameron said. “We have since done a thorough forensic analysis with a hypothermia expert who reproduced the raft from the movie. We took two stunt people who were the same body mass of Kate and Leo and we put sensors all over them and inside them and we put them in ice water and we tested to see whether they could have survived through a variety of methods and the answer was, there was no way they both could have survived. Only one could survive.”
Hader’s episode of “Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney” is now available to stream on Netflix.
