Leonardo DiCaprio,a star without fear Actor has a peculiar way of choosing roles: they are often harassed, unpleasant and striking, prepared with the help of a small roster of directors of the first line, among which stands out Martin Scorsese What helps DiCaprio to take such strong characters as J. Edgar is that he preserves his privacy. People are more likely to accept an influential personality if they have a very clear idea of who is the actor who plays off the big screen To become a J. Aged Edgar Hoover, Leonardo DiCaprio spent hours in the care of the featured makeup with freckles, yellow teeth and prominent love handles. He spends a good chunk of the film J. Edgar, the new film from Clint Eastwood, so - sarcastic and sweaty under the lights of relentless FBI headquarters. The role also took him to memorize monologues, which needed to be verbalized in dizzying pace characteristic of Hoover himself. In addition, DiCaprio, supermodel girlfriend usually in real life, had to fight aggressively with a man and then kiss him. Oh, and wear a dress. Faced with such a role, most Hollywood stars, even those who live eager to draw the attention of the voting members of the Oscars, have fled the border. Get ugly and anti-heroic? It would be too great a risk, even with Eastwood at the helm. But DiCaprio - at least the post-Titanic DiCaprio - has a career based on high-risk choices. And somehow, this option has paid off not only the awards circuit - he was nominated for an Oscar three times - but also box office. "I accept a paper when I can not define the character immediately when it has an element of mystery to be explored," said DiCaprio, 36, in an interview recently in the courtyard of the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles. "I like these complicated characters. I just like." Answers so please do not typically Hollywood. The star system may have become more subtle than it was in the days of Clark Gable and Jimmy Stewart, but it was still a system: an American actor still has to be a "person" stable, changing little. "It's a system that likes to label players," said Brian Grazer, producer J. Edgar, who debuted in U.S. theaters in the last 11 days and go on display in Brazil on January 27. "Once the players are successful in certain roles, transform it into formula and take it to the next film, which will do exactly the same thing. To resist this, you have to make very difficult choices. Most people are afraid" , Grazer said. The likely benefits DiCaprio is the fact that the actor was able to create a mystique about her personal life in this age of celebrity bloggers and twitterers. He strives to preserve their privacy. When interviewed, for example, do not try to force a friendship with journalists, unlike a lot of movie stars. Besides him to enjoy your privacy, it makes his performances more successful. People are more likely to accept an influential personality if they have a very clear idea of who is the actor who plays off the big screen. DiCaprio's choices may be unusual, but it has its own style to opt for what they think will work. His characters are often tormented faces, unpleasant and striking, prepared with the help of a small roster of directors of the first line, among which stands out Martin Scorsese. In The Aviator, he embodied Howard Hughes, who collected their own urine. In Blood Diamond, was a smuggler from Zimbabwe. After he played a mental patient in Shutter Island and a thief of dreams in the Origin. "The Leonardo could make lots of money invested into a formula, but prefers to face challenges," Eastwood said by telephone. "And playing someone who has nothing to do with you is a big challenge." The actor's next venture will star in the new version, made by Baz Luhrmann, The Great Gatsby. And he's ready to play Frank Sinatra in Scorsese's biopic of another. "It is in the hands of the director," the actor said about the possible movie Sinatra, stopping to grab a slice of watermelon and pour herself a cup of coffee. "I'm always very open to get involved in whatever he decides." J. Edgar fits perfectly in this canon. The best biopic offers a portrait of the person, with all its defects, and invite viewers to have an own opinion about it. That's exactly what Eastwood's film strives to do. Hoover is portrayed as a brilliant patriot who invented the modern forensic investigation and no one could take the power over all the years - eight chairs and three wars - in which he was charged with protecting the United States. But the omnipotent director of the FBI prevented - to say the least - the advancement of the civil rights movement, and has worked hard to collect, archive and distort the truth in order to secure his position of power. All this is more or less true. The treacherous character of J. Edgar, written by Dustin Lance Black, who won for her screenplay for Milk - The Voice of Equality, involves other aspects. Hoover was gay? Nobody knows for sure. He certainly had a very close relationship with Clyde Tolson, his colleague at the FBI, played in the film by Armi Hammer (of The Social Network). It is even less clear whether Hoover liked to wear women's clothing, but Eastwood and DiCaprio decided to keep the air of mystery script for Black. "Obviously there is a love story in the film, whether it's a gay love story or any other kind," said Eastwood. "It is open to the public to interpret. My intention was to show two men who really love each other. Moreover, there is more of my business." The option to take risks by DiCaprio is appreciated by the party that worships Hollywood films seriously, giving it a status of divinity by his taste for a kind of drama that is endangered in the major studios today. But for the part of Hollywood focused on business - agents, studio heads - make as many biopic is a mistake. The concern is that DiCaprio at some point, become uninteresting to the public, if not the spice career with a greater variety of roles. Jeanine Basinger, head of film at Wesleyan University, calls this "the problem Paul Muni." Muni was perhaps the main actor at Warner Brothers in the 1930s, when he starred in movies with powerful characters, such as Scarface - The Shame of a Nation. He also had a penchant for biographical roles and won an Oscar for The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936). But he was obsessed with historic roles and his career was hampered. Behold, then, the anti-Leonardo DiCaprio has just labels labeled by people from industry. If he is with that, he admits. "Never. No. Do not worry" responds quickly. The truth is that Jeanine Basinger recalls with some apprehension the case of Paul Muni, but do not worry so much about the fate of DiCaprio. For her, the actor has a great natural talent, and a diversified curriculum - with work in the television series Growing Pains, in the 1980s, through Gilbert Grape - Apprentice of a Dreamer and Titanic, until The Departed - which is a good omen of his future endeavors. "His presence is always very strong, yet it can really make us believe it's someone else," said Basinger. "It's an impressive talent." The indications that DiCaprio had been to the Oscars for roles in Gilbert Grape - Apprentice of a Dreamer, in which he served for 19 years, The Aviator and Blood Diamond. Experts at the awards veterans (who have not worked on anything related to J. Edgar) believe that the actor should get another nomination this year, with George Clooney for his role in The Descendants of Alexander Payne (Clooney plays a man who tries to reconnect with his two daughters after his wife into a coma). J. Edgar will be a success? It is also unclear. However, DiCaprio is provided by 3-D version of Titanic, which will surface in April. If a 3-D version of The Lion King managed to raise almost $ 100 million for Disney in October, Titanic should be easy to topple a huge box office. DiCaprio said he did not think much about it and that is at peace with the fact that it is continuously associated with the image of Jack Dawson. "I'm not haunted by that image, but it certainly haunts me," he said. "When I was in the Amazon, people had no clothes - and I'm not exaggerating - they knew the film. It's something that I accepted." http://veja.abril.com.br/noticia/celebrida...-medo-de-riscos