As 'Once Upon a Time In Hollywood' hits cinemas, we've unearthed this gem of a 1997 interview with Young Leo from our archive!
has become the film industry’s biggest teen scream. But can he ever be more than a Hollywood wet dream?22-year-old Leonardo DiCaprio has been routinely hailed as either ‘the best’ or ‘the most exciting’ actor of his generation.
It was interesting once I really started to research him, because you have this pre-planned idea of what Romeo’s supposed to be, just some fluffy romantic type of guy, but then you sort of realise that he was a hopeless romantic and then he meets Juliet. And Juliet says, ‘Alright look, if you’ve got any real balls you should marry me now and risk everything’.
One of the many surprises in the film is you and Juliet essentially falling in love in a swimming pool. What was it like to film those scenes? Well, yeah. At the beginning when we were just starting out, he wanted to make a lot of the characters go around on roller blades and I quickly said no. He wanted guns for a while but then he wasn’t sure. I thought it needed a bit of a darker tone to it and he agreed, so he sort of went in that direction. So thank God I got to be a part of it and get my two cents in at the beginning of everything.I’d say so, yeah.
But by the same token people have an expectation of you on the screen to deliver a performance, and the better you get and the more publicity you get, is there more pressure on you?
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