John C. Reilly recently told Ted Danson on the “ Where Everybody Knows Your Name ” podcast that he tried to convince Leonardo DiCaprio to turn down “Titanic” and instead star in “Boogie Nights,” written and directed by his good friend Paul Thomas Anderson. Reilly said he and Anderson were “thick as thieves” after collaborating on Anderson’s 1996 directorial debut “Hard Eight.” Reilly worked with DiCaprio in 1993’s “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape,” and he told Anderson he was confident he would get