Ouch! Robert De Niro really spanked Leonardo DiCaprio with a wooden paddle while filming a bizarre scene in Martin Scorsese's 'Killers of the Flower Moon,' cinematographer Rodrigo Pieto said.
"There was some padding on his butt," cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto says. "But you could tell De Niro was really hitting him."involves a paddle, a Masonic lodge, and an Oscar winner's butt — and the events that unfold in the scene were more real than you might expect.) disciplines him with a surprising punishment: The crime lord makes his nephew bend over and repeatedly whacks him on the behind with a wooden paddle.that De Niro was actually spanking DiCaprio on set.
The director of photography saw DiCaprio's physical commitment to the scene as a sign of his openness as a performer. "Leo is game for so much," Prieto said. "He'll do anything." Perhaps the scene allowed De Niro to channel some frustration with his costar into his performance as well. Scorsese previously said that he and De Niroby DiCaprio's improvisatory performance style."Every now and then, Bob and I would look at each other and roll our eyes a little bit," the filmmaker said."And we'd tell , 'You don't need that dialogue.
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