Air America beta radio has mentioned last friday an unauthorized documentary about Leonardo DiCaprio’s life.You’re probably wondering, “What is this, the 90s?” In a way, yes. All of the footage featured in “Hangin’ With Leo” looks like it’s from the late 1990s, when DiCaprio was riding the wave of “Titanic” ending up on “The Beach.” If you would like [...]
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Armie Hammer’s “Excited” For “A Ton of Kissing Scenes” With Leonardo DiCaprio
Posted By Marcie on February 1st, 2011
Where can a movie as big as The Social Network lead an actor like Armie Hammer next? Puckering up with Leonardo DiCaprio!
Armie is preparing to star alongside Leo in Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar biopic, a film which has him kissing the Inception star!
“It’s not a kissing scene — it’s a ton of kissing scenes,” Armie revealed to E! News at the SAG Awards.
“I’m so excited to work with Clint, and from what I hear, he’s not the type of director who has a ton of rehearsals and takes,” he added. “I think we’re just sort of thrown in there and have to make it happen.”
But he has met with Leo and discussed the upcoming smooches!
“I actually just met [Leo] for the first time Saturday at the DGA Awards. Sure, we talked business,” he said with a laugh. “He’s a talented actor. I’m not nervous or afraid of it being awkward. The script is great. The scenes are in there for a reason. I’m really excited.”
“Yeah, you hear that, Leo?” he added. “Pucker up!”
And looks like this may be a pic of Armie meeting Leo at the DGA Awards!
Source: OK
The Leonardo DiCaprio confession: “I have lived life intensely and I almost crashed”
Posted By Marcie on August 9th, 2010
translated by Dicakylar
Today he is the Hollywood golden boy. He is on the film industry cusp, in a balance where at in any project in which he collaborates it becomes profitable, and he is considered one of the most respected actors, at the level of his admired Robert De Niro and Jack Nicholson. Leonardo DiCaprio has a long way in the running from his childhood to his last film.
Through the years the Leonardo DiCaprio angelical face has matured over time to a more distrustful look, to a darker blond hair and a beard that is slowly growing on his cheeks. He was born in a dangerous neighborhood of Los Angeles, he carried with his face in castings for commercials and z-movies, avoiding the drugs world, until his way crossed with Robert De Niro. Or rather DiCaprio, crossed in De Niro’s way. In a casting for a film, DiCaprio with 15 years old, had a violent scene with De Niro. The reply that he did to De Niro earned him the role.
Living in the tough streets of his neighborhood examinated him with Basketball Diaries. His interpretation banished the idea that he was only a pretty face but it didn’t prevent DiCaprio that his photographs were the favorites into folders and teenagers rooms. With Titanic, the production with more Oscars, he became in the new Hollywood icon.
Since Gangs of New York in 2002, which again required a good interpretation, DiCaprio is the fetish actor of directors who are an institution in the industry world: Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Ridley Scott. His latest film, is directed by the last jewel of independent cinema who passed to the mainstream cinema.
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Leonardo DiCaprio Ready for Fatherhood – Someday
Posted By Marcie on July 19th, 2010
Leonardo DiCaprio is willing to start celebrating Father’s Day. Just not anytime soon.
“Do I want to be a father? Yes, but I think I have a few more years,” the Inception star, 35, tells the Swiss newspaper Le Matin. “That said, I don’t think I need to have children to play a father in the movies. This feeling is in me, I understand it completely.”
He adds, “In my private life, I still have time to become a dad, and I’ve no desire to rush.”
Asked why he is so discrete about his relationship with Israeli beauty Bar Refaeli, even amid (unconfirmed) rumors they plan to wed this fall, DiCaprio says he prefers his press coverage to be about his professional life.
“I want to be an actor just like my role models. Robert De Niro, for example,” says DiCaprio, who was seen cycling with Refaeli last weekend in Paris. “Being discreet in his private life has allowed him to be even more credible in different roles on the big screen.”
And when it comes to his own career, DiCaprio, whose character in Inception does have children, says, “I like that I’ve reached an age where I can play more mature responsible characters, and that includes the father of a family.”
Bar Refaeli Always There for Leonardo DiCaprio (Just Not on the Red Carpet)
Posted By Marcie on March 25th, 2010
Maybe a little time off is all they needed.
Bar Refaeli says that though she went through a “tough time” after splitting up with boyfriend Leonardo DiCaprio for six months, their relationship ultimately emerged stronger.
“It was a half year for which I am very grateful,” the Israeli supermodel, 24, tells her country’s top-selling L’Isha magazine. “I needed it. I came to understand a lot of things about myself. ”
“I worked on myself [and] I grew up,” Refaeli says. “I didn’t know what ‘alone’ was like. Today I know that a relationship can work only if you know you can be alone and you are not afraid. Today I’m not afraid of being alone.”
She may not be alone – but Refaeli and DiCaprio aren’t engaged either.
RELATED: Leonardo DiCaprio & Bar Rafaeli Are ‘Very Similar,’ Says Pal
“I’m not thinking about getting married,” she says, laughing off rumors that she was wearing an engagement ring in Berlin over Valentine’s Day. “I’m still young, not yet 25.”
Refaeli prefers to keep a lower profile – though she is out with DiCaprio much of the time.
“I am there for him and I am at all the events,” she says. “I just don’t walk in hand-in-hand with him. I don’t see any reason. I don’t need to strike poses with him in front of the cameras.”
That’s why they kept their heads down at a recent Orlando Magic-Los Angeles Lakers game. Says Refaeli: “No one needs to know how we kiss.”
Source: People.com
Dicaprio on Brando
Posted By Marcie on March 3rd, 2010
Asked by PEOPLE what Brando meant to him, actor Leonardo DiCaprio wrote of some of the master’s subtler screen moments.
It is a rite of passage for every young actor to study Marlon Brando’s performances in films like On the Waterfront and A Streetcar Named Desire. At first, his films were charged with a sense of brilliant defiance. This eventually changed, mostly through a maniacal restlessness, and he created a series of unpremeditated characters in films like One-Eyed Jacks and LastTango in Pahs. It is especially these later characters that I’m drawn to the most. Brando begins the first scene in One-Eyed Jacks with the main character tossing a banana peel onto a gold scale during a bank robbery—a telling gesture in a movie that he himself directed. In LastTango in Paris, he seems to improvise the character of Paul. His portrayal of a contemporary man living in an indifferent Paris seems to be as close to being Brando’s self-portrait as any. His paradoxical balcony death scene, which climaxes with an oddly funny, offbeat move of thumbing gum under a railing, steals the scene’s drama and replaces it with numbness. For me, these simple gestures are examples of what made Brando the unpredictable and truly existential actor of our time.
The House of Brando
Son of a volatile family, he grew up to create his own turbulent;dynasty—at least 11 children in and out of three marriages
Although her drinking made life difficult, stage-loving mother Dorothy (with “Bud” in 1932) was “vivacious, funny and unconventional,” Brando once said.
“I did the best I could,” an emotional Brando said of being father to son Christian (facing a murder charge in Santa Monica in 1990).
Brando’s Brides
ANNA KASHFI “The depth of his sensitivity was extraordinary,” said the actress (with Brando in ’57). Their two-year marriage ended in ’59.
MOVITA CASTANEDA Brando (at the premiere of Mutiny on the Bounty in ’62) wed the Mexican actress—an extra on his 1952 film Viva Zapata!—in 1960, but the couple divorced two years later.
TARITA TERIIPAIA Brando met his Tahitian love (in 1971 with son Teihotu and daughter Cheyenne, who died at age 25) shooting Bounty in 1960. They married in 1962,and their relationship continued off and on for decades.
Brando: Essential Viewing
•A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) When Brando bellowed, “Stella,” the screen had a new kind of hero: the sensitive tribute.
•On the Waterfront (1954) Brando was at his hurtin’ best as a dockworker conflicted by conscience.
•Guys and Dolls (1955) Warbling none too tunefully in a musical, Brando seemed to do something unprecedented: Enjoy himself.
•The Godfather (1972) Brando played a Mafia don with such panache and feeling that real-life wiseguys have been imitating him ever since.
•Apocalypse Now (1979)
Even at his most self-indul-gently weird, you can’t take your eyes off him.
Source: People
Vanity Fair Interview
Posted By Marcie on February 13th, 2010
Translated by Carmy of LDC Italy
When I look at Robert Pattinson
Now he is one of the best Hollywood stars, he shot the fourth movie with Martin Scorsese (the eagerly awaited Shutter Island, that will be shown at the Berlin International Film Festival), but he considers his past, thinking about the fame reached with Titanic, and the look in those “vampire” eyes.
As a journalist, I should be angry with Leonardo DiCaprio. For the press, he is a hard nut to crack: few interviews, no shocking statements about his private life. Well, actually no statements at all. But I can’t be mad with him. I like the way he survived to the unexpected Titanic fame, during all these years. I admire his friendship with Martin Scorsese. I like him because he just uses his notoriety and his money to produce boring environment documentaries and to build eco-resorts. And I like him, since he’s just like you see him: no tattoos, no earrings or rings, he’s not a different person than the one you see on the screen. DiCaprio is the typical old schoolmate, the one that, even after many years, when you meet him again on Facebook, doesn’t seem that different. Tall, not so thin, during the interview he was wearing his beloved blue jeans, a white t-shirt under a blue polo, and he was drinking a Frappuccino with ice, in a big cup.
I saw him again in Los Angeles, at the Golden Globe Awards: black tie, hair combed back, at the same table of Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese and Cameron Diaz. So polite and so nice: the perfect boyfriend. It’s difficult to believe that he’s the same Leonardo who, according to the tabloid’s urban legends, used to hang around the night clubs together with Mickey Rourke and bunches of girls.
But he’s surely the same Leonardo who dated two top models, Gisele Bundchen and Bar Refaeli (did they break up or they’re still together?), but who never revealed any detail or secret of such relationships.
If in Hollywood the right to privacy proves one’s power, Leonardo is at the top of the pyramid. He’s the main character of one of the most awaited movies of the year, also because its release has been delayed more than once: Shutter Island, film adaptation of a Dennis Lehane’s thriller (the same author of Mystic River), and directed by Martin Scorsese. The movie will finally be in theatres in February, after the debut at Berlin International Film Festival. Meanwhile, DiCaprio has just ended the filming of Christopher Nolan’s Inception.
You work very much.
Do you really think that? I don’t think so. Well, some people shoot far more movies that I do.
Is working a lot a positive or negative thing?
I think it’s positive, how about you?
Are you turning over my questions?
No, I’m just curious about how people perceive me, because maybe two of my movies are in theatres almost at the same time, but in between I haven’t worked for about eight months.
And what do you do when you’re not working?
Film promotion in other parts of the world. Environmental commitments. But I also spend some time with my friends, or travelling (not for work). And I’m also engaged with the production company.
This year you produced the horror film The Orphan. What kind of producer are you? Worried about earnings?
When it comes to numbers I’m hopeless. I produce relatively low-cost movies, so I’m not worried about the box office. Of course, if I produced movies like Avatar, I would be far more anxious! I started this activity mainly because I wanted to find and develop projects for me as an actor. Actually, I keep on giving my opinion or achieving projects for other people, and in the end, I’m getting ready to become a director, one day.
Producing also means spreading your ecological ideas. Can you sum up your opinion in a slogan?
At the moment, it is important that people consider ecology as a great economic opportunity. Replacing the traditional central heating with solar panels means creating new jobs, and I think all governments should improve this.
Are you able to be consistent with your opinions, in everyday life?
I try. My house is equipped with solar panels, and I recycle everything possible. I avoid private jets, since it’s important to practise what you preach. But I also think this isn’t enough. And if everyone in the USA bought a hybrid car, it still wouldn’t be enough. What we need is an international cooperation: governments should reach an agreement and take the necessary measures together. Nowadays environment is a matter of worldwide politics. And it can’t be reduced to a superficial movement, some sort of peace & love thing, like the one that, after the seventies, ended without leaving a trace. Everyday individual actions are a starting point, but they only scratch the surface.
Are you ready to plunge into politics?
By no means! When I shoot a movie, I can repeat the same cue even fifteen times, if it wasn’t perfect. But in politics, well, you can’t afford to make mistakes.
While you’re here, 35, at the height of your career, a certain Robert Pattinson…
I see what you’re driving at. I don’t know Pattinson, but in his eyes I see the same look I had at the time of Titanic.
What kind of look?
A look that seems to say: “Wow, that’s absolutely mad, but I know what’s attracting all those girls, all those Medias it’s not me. I’m just a third entity, who’s looking at the whole thing from the outside. Sooner or later the hysteria and the drum roll will pass by.
But when the drum rolled for DiCaprio, you had a lot of fun: nightclubs, parties, girls.
The whole Titanic experience made me appear like a different, extravagant person. But I was distant from this new identity, and I tried to dissolve it: it could have taken advantage of me, like it did for many people who became object of a huge popularity. It could have ruined me.
A whole generation’s sentimental education came mostly from some of your films: Titanic, Romeo + Juliet, The Beach. As a boy, how did you consider love?
As a boy, I didn’t care about love. I’ve never read a love book. I was more influenced by books like The catcher in the rye and The old man and the sea. When Baz Luhrmann came out with the idea of Romeo and Juliet, at the beginning I was horrified. To convince me, they had to tell me it wasn’t exactly a love story, but more a masterpiece which goes beyond the genre.
Once you said: “When you’re famous, what people want is to see you fall”.
That’s one of those things I said when I was young, it will haunt me forever! You’re not the first one who came out with it.
But it’s impressing for a 20-year-old boy to be so conscious.
Fame is a trap, it’s true. But it’s also true that many people are able to fulfil their ambitions without turning into different persons. And I want to be one of them.
I think you’re already one of them. But how ambitious are you?
A lot. I’ve always been ambitious. My family had few means, I’ve grown up in Los Angeles and I know you have to work really hard and to be lucky to become part of this environment. That’s why I never give up. I always think that maybe one day they won’t call me so often.
So, when are you going to give up with your job? Only when you will be old and you’ll tell your ten nephews about the wonderful experience of filming with Scorsese?
Ten nephews? Help me! I still haven’t a child! Do you think I should start doing some effort?
That’s your choice. Or you can even decide to go on with the cinema and never stop. You could become like Clint Eastwood: almost eighty, still in action.
It wouldn’t be bad. I don’t want to be more famous or richer. What I have is enough for me. But I want to do something important, something great, and lasting. I don’t know if people perceive that, but when I act, I throw myself heart and body into it.
How about Shutter Island?
The film is set into a mental hospital for criminals and people with very serious mental disorders. The story develops during the fifties, a period full of experimentations of new medicines and therapies. I studied a lot that kind of environment, on set there was also an expert in the medical history of the period.
How did your relationship with Scorsese evolve during the years?
When we first worked together, in Gangs of New York, I was just 24. During those nine hard months of filming, I had to win his trust. Now that we’re at the fourth movie together, I can say that we’re on the same wavelength. We both know what we don’t like in a movie, and that’s a good starting point to carry out good films.
How do you feel when you read that you’re the new Robert De Niro?
I feel embarrassed, and I can’t believe it. I already consider myself lucky to work with Scorsese, so let’s imagine the effect of being compared to De Niro.
Are you always sincere?
Always, in my work. I can discuss and even argue if someone asks me to do things I I’m not sure about.
I’ll ask you again: are you always sincere?
No, not always. As everybody.
The Amazing Kate
Posted By Marcie on May 12th, 2009
Spectacular roles, glam outfits, a stack of awards—Kate Winslet is having the best year of her life
By Elio Iannacci
Kate Winslet is sitting on a mauve couch, looking outside the window of her penthouse suite in the Soho Grand Hotel. Her view of New York City’s infinite number of highrise condos and skyscrapers is offset by the sound of metal cranes droning away on a nearby building in progress. Rather than getting perturbed by the swirling mess of dirt, gravel and noise below her, Winslet is fascinated by the racket. “Look at all this construction!” she says, kicking up her well-worn black Louboutin heel. “With all that debris, they might as well be building a bloody empire!”
It’s easy to understand why the 33-year-old actor is so intrigued by the breaking of new ground—she’s been doing it on the silver screen for more than a decade. However, out of the more than 25 films she’s starred, costarred and cameo’d in (as well as helped narrate), nothing has elevated Winslet’s own empire like her two most recent pictures: The Reader and Revolutionary Road.
In her Oscar-winning role in The Reader, Winslet skilfully plays a German streetcar attendant–cum–Nazi guard in her late 30s who has an affair with a teenage boy who is so scandalously young, he could be a Jonas brother. In Revolutionary Road, Winslet tackles the psyche of an equally complex woman—a psychologically unstable newlywed living in Connecticut in the 1950s—someone who’s living in a world that makes Desperate Housewives look like High School Musical. Both films are hard-to-watch yet satisfying-to-finish pieces of cinema, showcasing Winslet’s range in a way that blows her Titanic persona right out of the water. Which is a tad ironic, as Revolutionary Road—directed by Winslet’s husband, Sam Mendes—reunites the British actor with her former Titanic costar and beloved friend, Leonardo DiCaprio, who plays her husband in the film. The three of them grew so close during the making of the project that Winslet now wears her wedding rings from Mendes as well as a mysteriously inscribed piece of gold gifted to her by DiCaprio shortly after the film was made. “Yes, [Leo’s ring] is engraved on the inside,” she maintains, “but I’m not going to tell you what it says,” she adds cheekily.
Another mystery is how Winslet kept her professionalism intact while filming Revolutionary Road’s pivotal love scenes with DiCaprio (while her husband directed them). It seems as difficult a job as the one she had trying to lure the average moviegoer into sympathizing with her portrayal of a Nazi war criminal in The Reader. Yet, Winslet’s talent, a byproduct of what she deems “a manifestation of something within me and an accumulation of life experience,” managed to get her through both scripts without a nervous breakdown and attract audiences and critics with equal force. One look at the recent additions to her trophy case—two Golden Globes, two BAFTAs, two SAGs and one Oscar—and even the most jaded Hollywood casting agent will tell you Winslet can make any script work.
“Yes, [all the awards] are absolutely an acknowledgment of our hard work and a testament to the long hours we’ve pulled,” Winslet says, referring to Mendes, who not only had to hear her talk shop about Revolutionary Road nonstop (on set and in bed) but she asserts he was the one who urged her to accept the lead in The Reader after Nicole Kidman dropped out of the project.
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| Winslet is the new face of Lancôme Trésor Sheer Fragrance, $72. |
“But I don’t think [the awards] have necessarily boosted my confidence. If I was younger and going through this particular time, it might make a definitive impact. I know who I am now,” she states. This is probably one of the reasons why she decided to take a break from acting this year and signed on to be the spokesperson for Lancôme’s Trésor Sheer Fragrance perfume. It’s a job that brings with it a lot more glamour and a lot less drama than the emotionally wrought scenes she usually slaves over. “The biggest cliché about acting is that it is glamorous,” she says. “The process is wonderful, but there is nothing glamorous about it.”
Winslet was easily convinced by Lancôme to step off the set for a while, and she cites the company’s previous spokespeople as inspiration—namely, Oscar-winning actor Juliette Binoche and esteemed icon Isabella Rossellini. “I admire the fact that [Lancôme] has chosen women like them, since they are risk takers and powerful, warm souls. I’ve met them on several occasions and I know they are women who are comfortable in their own skin, strong-minded and passionate. There is no point in having a pretty face if you have an ugly spirit.”
“The Amazing Kate” has been edited for FLARE.com; the complete story appears in the May 2009 issue of FLARE.
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Save the Earth, Go to a Premiere with Leonardo DiCaprio!
Posted By Marcie on April 14th, 2009
Want to hit the red carpet with Leonardo DiCaprio at the premiere of his next film? Here’s your chance.
The actor and environmental activist, 34, is auctioning off the opportunity to attend the premiere of his upcoming drama Shutter Island – complete with eco-car service to and from the event and a stay at a green hotel.
“By bidding on these items at ebay.com/globalgreen, people will help Global Green combat climate change and pursue important environmental imperatives, such as greening our nation’s schools, housing, cities and more,” says DiCaprio, who is a board member for Global Green USA, which advocates for climate-friendly solutions to environmental issues.
The auction begins Wednesday night at 7 p.m. and ends on Earth Day, April 22.
Source: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20272311,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines
The actor is an ambassador with a heart
Posted By Marcie on January 23rd, 2009
Source: Gala.FR
For the past several years, Leonardo DiCaprio is using his celebrity for a good cause. Fervent défenseur de l’écologie, il a tourné un documentaire à propos de défectueux écosystèmes mondiaux en 2007 (La 11e Heure, Le Dernier Virage), est arrivé au volant d’une voiture hybride à la cérémonie des Oscars, a des panneaux solaires sur le toit de sa maison… Aujourd’hui il s’associe à la marque de prestige Tag Heuer pour ne pas perdre de temps. A fervent advocate of ecology, he shot a documentary about defective global ecosystems in 2007 (The 11th Hour, the last turn), arrived driving a hybrid car to the Oscars ceremony, has solar panels on the roof of his house … Today he joined the prestige brand Tag Heuer for not wasting time.
Pour sur, Leonardo DiCaprio ne fait pas d’économie d’énergie (physique et financière) pour promouvoir l’écologie. Alors quand la luxueuse maison d’horlogerie Tag Heuer a fait appel à lui, l’acteur n’a pas hésité une seconde avant de signer un contrat de trois ans pour mettre en avant le superbe Chronographe Carrera 43mm day date. «Nous sommes tous des consommateurs, et je n’ai pas l’intention de mettre fin à la consommation. To be sure, Leonardo DiCaprio is not saving energy (physical and financial) to promote ecology. So when the luxurious house of Tag Heuer watches turned to him, the actor did not hesitate one seconds before signing a contract for three years to highlight the superb Carrera Chronograph 43mm day date. “We are all consumers, and I do not intend to end consumption. Nous votons avec notre argent» confiait un jour le beau blond. We vote with our money, “confided one day the beautiful blond. Et pour mettre ses propos en pratique, les royalties qui seront engendrés par la collaboration de Leo et Tag Heuer seront reversés à d’influentes organisations environnementales. On parle là de millions de dollars… And to put his words into practice, royalties will be generated by the collaboration of Leo and Tag Heuer will be donated to influential environmental organizations. We are talking here of millions of dollars …
Alors quand le craquant défend bec et ongle son statut de star internationale, on applaudit, il ne fait que contribuer à une meilleure information écologique. D’ailleurs la publicité réalisée pour l’horloger suisse est fort bien coordonnée dans ce sens: le journal pour s’informer, l’eau pour la vie, la montre pour le temps qui passe… Et ce grain presque sépia, avec l’allure quelque peu vintage de Leonardo… Non vraiment, si le temps ne semble pas avoir de prise sur l’éternel jeune homme qui nous avait fait frémir à bord du Titanic, il en a sur Dame Nature.
Et avec le blondinet comme chef de file, l’engouement, voir la mode pour la protection de l’environnement ne risque pas de s’éroder. Il suffit de comprendre que «c’est un jeu de publicité pour la planète», selon les termes de l’acteur, qui, pour sûr est ravi de son partenariat avec Tag Heuer. «Le temps, c’est la possibilité. Celle de faire des choix responsables qui mèneront vers un meilleur avenir pour les générations futures. On espère que nos donations aideront à défendre les organisations qui travaillent pour assurer la postérité des ressources de notre planète» proclame DiCaprio. A vos chéquiers!
Marion Buiatti
Mercredi 21 janvier 2009
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