Leonardo DiCaprio‘s Most Intense Roles
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The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
In his fifth collaboration with Scorsese, the star is at the top of his actor expressiveness in the ties of the corrupt and excessive broker Jordan Belfort. The sequence in which the protagonist, under the influence of quaalude, opens the door of the Lamborghini with his leg is the result of Leo’s improvisation: a choice that, though, woudl have caused him a muscle stretching. DiCaprio then admitted that he was inspired by a video on the web portraying a man, stunned by drugs, while trying to get up from the ground in a market.
Revenant (2015)
In the role that finally earned him the coveted Oscar, DiCaprio embodies the legendary American explorer Hugh Glass.He had to be attacked by a grizzly bear, sleep inside the carcass of a horse, and risk hypothermia.But for the extreme Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu, Leo really went the distance: he spoke the Pawnee and Arkara languages with native Americans, fished with bare hands, and fed on raw bison liver.
Once upon a time in Hollywood (2019)
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