Actor Mark Wahlberg says he almost missed out on the opportunity of working with Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio in "The Basketball Diaries" after treating the latter badly at a charity event.

The 42-year-old said DiCaprio objected to the idea of acting alongside him in the 1995 film.

"Leonardo was like, 'Over my dead f***ing body. Marky Mark's not going to be in this f***ing movie'" hollywoodreporter.com quoted Wahlberg as saying.

"We'd had a thing - I didn't even realise it, (but) I was a bit of a d*** to him at a charity basketball game. So he was like, 'This f***ing a**hole is not going to be in this movie.'" he added.

But casting director Avy Kaufman urged the `Titanic` star to change his mind and at least meet him.

"I come in and I do the audition and I kind of look at him and he kind of looks at me, and then we do a scene, and they're like, 'Hmm, this f***ing dude's pretty good, right?' The next thing you know, boom, we're hanging out," Wahlberg said.