Getty Images Eric Braeden almost turned down starring in one of the biggest and most successful movies ever made. The 85-year-old star of The Young and the Restless starred in Titanic (1997) as the richest man on the ship, John Jacob Astor IV, but during a new episode of the Still Here Hollywood podcast he revealed that he initially had no interest in the role. "I didn't want to do it. I said, 'I don't give a s-t about James Cameron. I don't know him," Eric recalled during the episode, per Entertainment Weekly.