These days people tend to think of Leonardo DiCaprio as either the rat-faced insider from The Departed or the owner of the silliest comedy South African accent in all of history in Blood Diamond, but Leonardo DiCaprio hasn't always had it so rosy.
For instance, Leonardo DiCaprio has decided to reveal a shocking truth – in 1997, after Titanic had turned him into the world's most desirable boat-based movie teen pin-up, Leonardo DiCaprio thought about not being an actor any more for a while. Truly we are grateful that you didn't decide to quit acting a decade ago Leonardo DiCaprio, and so hopelessly worried are we that you'll one day again briefly consider giving up the profession that made you a multimillionaire that we're going to go out and watch your shitty diamond film right now. Or at least watch it on TV in a few years. If nothing better is on.
People have every reason to envy Leonardo DiCaprio's career – not many of us can honestly say that Martin Scorsese has phoned them and said "Hey, I've got this great role for you. You play a cop who basically grimaces when he sees Jack Nicholson's strap-on cock. Whaddaya say? I'll give you several million dollars if you'll say yes," not many of us can get away with charging fans for autographs and not many of us can think back to a time when they almost changed jobs but didn't as a fanfare-worthy anecdote of international importance.
But Leonardo DiCaprio can. Being in Titanic in 1997, you see, really screwed Leonardo DiCaprio up. Well, it screwed him up in the sense that it made him into a world-renowned actor with vast banks of cash and an eager crowd of ladies following him around ready to follow his every command. Which, really, isn't that much. Here's how Leonardo DiCaprio told his dreadful tale of woe to Newsweek:
"I wanted to establish myself as an actor who put a lot of thought into his characters and did good work. And then I did a movie called "Titanic," and there I was, right back into that position of being looked at as another piece of cute meat… It was pretty disheartening to be objectified like that. I wanted to stop acting for a little bit. It changed my life in a lot of ways, but at the same time, I can't say that it didn't give me opportunities. It made me, for the first time, in control of my career. But yeah, it was weird."
But luckily for us Leonardo DiCaprio decided to stick at acting which, in retrospect, was a win-win situation. Leonardo get to sort of adopt an African girl and constantly preach about how bad we are at environmental stuff, and we got to see him in The Beach.
Wait, did we say win-win?
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Mi Casa says
Don’t be so fast tojudge. It could have been Ewan McGregor in The Beach & that would have been 10,000 more awful
Fletch says
Leo is a liar. After “Titanic” made him a huge star, he made sure his “cute meat” face was seen at every club or party he could find. Here in New York City, the press was playing “Where’s Leo?” chasing him around from one hot spot to the next. He had an entourage, or as it was then known, a “posse,” that he constantly partied with, and they treated him like he was Zeus. I don’t buy his “I was miserable” routine for a second.
christine says
i love leo with all my heart!
Vlad says
Fucking bunch of haters. DiCaprio is the best actor out there and ppl are so jealous of him.
Vlad says
You fucking hater. How would you know that DiCaprio lied. You wish you were like him.