Apparently Gloria Steinem talked Leonardo DiCaprio out of it.
wasn't even out yet, but the buzz around the film and the box office success omeant Leo-mania was in full swing in Hollywood. To their surprise, DiCaprio was interested. The $20 million probably didn't hurt. Ironically, Bale had lost out on the lead inHarron, however, didn't think DiCaprio was right for the role. Not only was his still a little too boyish to play a yuppie investment banker, she also worried that his idol image may bring the wrong type of crowd to the film.
In Stone's version of the film, James Woods would have played the part of Donald Kimball while he wanted Cameron Diaz for the part of Bateman's fiancé .For whatever reason, however, both DiCaprio and Stone dropped out. Harron got her film back, and Bale got what would become his star-making turn.Apparently, feminist icon Gloria Steinem may have played a bigger part in it than the public had originally thought.
Steinem found Ellis's original novel offensive to women, and had protested against the project from the start. In, Harron's co-screenwriter Guinevere Turner says that she might have directly intercepted DiCaprio's participation. "My friend, who had just spoken to Gloria Steinem, said that Gloria Steinem took Leonard DiCaprio to a Yankees game, I believe, and said, 'Please don't do this movie,'" she told, there is an entire planet full of 13-year-old girls waiting to see what you do next, and this is going to be a movie that has horrible violence toward women ...
What makes that all weirder is that after the film came out, Steinem would become Bale's step-mom. She married his father, environmental activist David Bale later that year, but hadn't yet met him during pre-production.project, which seemed baffling at the time, but his career, as you well know, still turned out fine. Bale proved his leading male bonafides, and five years later would be playing Batman. The film still made what one Lionsgate exec called"a tidy profit on the picture.
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