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Leonardo DiCaprio went to such great lengths as a method actor on “The Revenant” that he devoured a raw slab of bison’s liver. Although the props department had constructed a faux liver from jelly, DiCaprio worried that it didn’t look right. And so — after calls to his lawyer and agents cleared — producers were able to serve him the real thing. “The bad part is the membrane around it,” DiCaprio says. “It’s like a balloon. When you bite into it, it bursts in your mouth.

Director Alejandro G. Inarritu says he was initially concerned that his leading man could get sick from eating a potentially disease-ridden organ. But, he now beams at what the real liver added to DiCaprio’s performance. “Without it, he may not have gotten to the truth,” Inarritu says.

In preparing to portray Hugh Glass, a real-life 19th century explorer who survives a brutal bear mauling in order to avenge the death of his son, DiCaprio also had to learn how to shoot a musket, build a fire, speak two Native American languages (Pawnee and Arikara) and study with a doctor who specializes in ancient healing techniques. He calls it the hardest performance of his career.

“It was like the real wild, wild West in the sense that there were all these cultures merging together in this lawless land,” says the 41-year-old actor.

The same could be said for the grueling production of “The Revenant” which was plagued by severe weather, runaway costs, on-set quarrels, staff defections from the large crew, and other problems reminiscent of DiCaprio’s troubled shoot aboard 1997’s “Titanic.” The actors entered into a real-life frozen jungle during a seven-month shoot in Alberta, Canada, using natural light (shot by cinematographer Emmanuel “Chivo” Lubezki) and fending off frostbite in temperatures that plunged to 40 degrees below zero. If that wasn’t grueling enough, a lack of snow near the end of the shoot forced the production to shut down last spring, and add six days in July — mid-winter — in Argentina, which tacked millions to the already inflated budget, while Inarritu had to cobble together an edit without an ending.

“I just want to set the record straight,” DiCaprio says over several glasses of wine during a 75-minute interview at the Beverly Hills Four Seasons, with Inarritu by his side. “There’s been a lot said about the movie and the difficulties making it, and how meticulous Alejandro is with his vision. But to me, that’s the shit that should be praised. I don’t want to work with somebody who isn’t thinking of every possible aspect of what’s up on the screen. I think there’s a hunger for audiences to see something completely extreme and difficult.”

So hope the film’s backers, New Regency, Brett Ratner’s RatPac and Twentieth Century Fox. The team is banking on the $135 million epic tale — which debuts in limited release on Christmas Day and opens wide Jan. 8 — becoming a commercial success as well as a major awards contender that could land DiCaprio, a four-time Academy Awards-nominee, his first Oscar.

Hollywood has a tradition of movies that bring crews to their breaking point — one that harks back to films like David Lean’s “Lawrence of Arabia” and Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining.” Sometimes the films that result are masterpieces; other times, studios are left with the next “Heaven’s Gate,” which ran United Artists into the ground. Today’s film business is dominated by blockbuster comic-book franchises like “The Avengers” and literary phenoms such as “The Hunger Games.” It can be punishing to big-budget period pieces that fail to attract wide audiences (think Ridley Scott’s “Exodus”). “The Revenant” is a big gamble.

“It’s hard to say what will happen, and whether the brilliance of this film will be rewarded relative to its costs,” says Sean Penn, who worked with Inarritu on “21 Grams,” and calls “The Revenant” a masterpiece. “I’d like to think we’re a culture that values its art enough to recognize we need this.”

DiCaprio is known for turning even challenging material like “The Wolf of Wall Street” and “Django Unchained” into global hits. But even coming off last year’s win for “Birdman,” Inarritu, the auteur behind small dramas like “Amores Perros” and “Biutiful,” has yet to direct a picture with a worldwide box office take that exceeds the budget of “The Revenant.”

Hollywood will be watching this latest pairing closely to see if adult material can in fact thrive against the odds. In person, DiCaprio and Inarritu couldn’t be more different. The actor still projects a boyish charm, unlike the scraggly frontiersman he plays onscreen, and he’s reserved. Inarritu, on the other
hand, is a nonstop chatterbox of one-liners. He refuses a shot of tequila offered by a publicist, claiming he’s still haunted by “the ghost of my hangover” from the night before. At one point, he says he wants to talk about the art, before joking he did “The Revenant” for the paycheck. “I need my fee,” he says. “Careful,” DiCaprio warns him. “When you say something in print, sarcasm doesn’t translate.””

The most dazzling sequence in “The Revenant” is the much-hyped, terrifying bear attack, which leaves Glass on death’s door. Inarritu is reluctant to give away any behind-the-scenes secrets. “It was a very well-trained animal,” he says with a smirk. “Let people enjoy it.” The scene was shot over several days in
November last year, in a torrential rainstorm, which created added hardships, given that the fight is choreographed in one take, with rigs of makeup blood exploding over DiCaprio’s face. Inarritu had studied bear attacks on YouTube, and the special effects team had created an elaborate dance with the help of harnesses, ropes and stunt men who tackled DiCaprio as stand-ins for the beast. The bear itself is CGI. “When CGI works, in my opinion, is when it’s done in the real world,” says Ratner, adding that a computer-generated DiCaprio would have looked like a cartoon.

The lack of a cellphone signal meant that crew members had to relay messages via snowmobiles. The first few months were plagued by nonstop storms and threats of frostbite. But despite the harsh weather, DiCaprio insists he was never injured. He did, however, get sick repeatedly. “I got the flu quite a few times,” he allows. In one scene, where the other men in his troop carry him up a hill on a stretcher, Glass lets out a guttural cough. That’s not, in fact, acting, but DiCaprio spewing out phlegm. Inarritu tells a story about how, after a recent SAG screening, an actor approached him to ask: “Was that ADR?” Inarritu laughs.

The director admits he was a stickler for details. When he discovered there were no ants on the snow-trodden grounds of Calgary, he had them imported from British Columbia for a scene where they crawl over DiCaprio. “We had to fly the ants in,” Inarritu says. “Two flights, because some of them died in the first flight. They were panicked by the altitude. They fly first-class!”

He nicknamed a member of the crew “the wax lady”; she was tasked with rubbing balls of wax on the character’s costumes to create a more worn-out look. He even made sure the character’s footwear looked authentic while keeping the actors from losing their toes from the cold. “We had to build special moccasins that had protection and warmth,” Inarritu says. Adds DiCaprio: “And a grip. To give us a little traction, so we weren’t like a bunch of happy gnomes, sliding all over the ice.”

For much of “The Revenant,” DiCaprio is immobile and silent. The transformation required a Herculean effort from the makeup team, which included Sian Grigg and Duncan Jarman, who used 47 different prosthetics to cover DiCaprio with bites and wounds on his body, torso and back. “We did the neck laceration,” says Grigg, who was pushed to dial up the blood. “Alejandro wanted us to go back and make it look more grotesque.” DiCaprio would sometimes rise at 3 a.m., to sit through four or five hours of makeup, as the crew anxiously prepared for the two hours of sunlight per day with enough light to film. Further, temperatures continued to dip in Canada that winter, forcing the crew to wrap a week early before Christmas break. “We were doing makeup in hats and scarves,” Grigg says. “It was so cold in our trailer, our makeup bag froze to the floor.”

But in the spring, the cast found itself with a different problem. Warm winds had suddenly descended on the area, making the snow melt in piles, a reality that Lubezki’s lens couldn’t hide. “That’s what climate change is,” says DiCaprio, who is making a documentary on the subject. Throughout March, trucks would drive in snow, but by April — for the film’s big battle scene between DiCaprio’s Glass and his onscreen nemesis, John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy)— it became much too hard to pretend. “There was no way to do it,” says producer Steve Golin. “We had to find another option.”

That meant scouting other locations, and settling on Argentina. Inarritu estimates that 70% of the film’s overbudget costs stemmed from changing the location of the shoot, and he compares making a movie to rock climbing. “Once you start to establish the language of the film, there’s no way back,” he says. “You either go up or you die.”

While the production was shut down, Hardy had to drop out of “Suicide Squad” due to scheduling. “Was I bummed? Of course I was,” Hardy says. “I hate f—king losing work. I kept bemoaning they were losing me significant money on a daily basis. Actually, it was good for my character.”

DiCaprio returned to Los Angeles, sporting Glass’ scraggly beard. He wasn’t able to shave it off until late July, when he could finally shoot the film’s flashback scenes. “I had that beard for a year and a half,” DiCaprio says. “It becomes like a spouse. You sleep with it. It was like shaving off dreads.” Inarritu recalls hearing about a tabloid report that suggested the beard that been infested with fleas. “They are now homeless,” Inarritu jokes. “They are in Santa Monica.”

But that wasn’t the most salacious rumor associated with “The Revenant.” Of course, the Drudge Report was widely mocked for linking to a false story recently that claimed DiCaprio is raped by a bear in the film. And then there was a blind tabloid item that suggested Hardy decked his director one day over an on-set disagreement, which the actor denies. “If you hit somebody, you’d know about it,” Hardy says. “That didn’t happen.”

“The Revenant” is a throwback to a different era, when studios routinely took gambles on original stories. Today’s movie business is basically fractured into two different kinds of pictures: the under $20 million acclaimed adult drama (such as “Brooklyn,” “Carol,” “Spotlight” and “Room”), a genre that’s quickly shrinking; and blockbuster sequels (only one of the 10 top-grossing films of the year so far, “Inside Out,” is based on a new story). “The Revenant” is a box office litmus test for one of the few A-list actors who has never headlined a sequel.

“To me, every movie I’ve done has been its own piece of individual art,” DiCaprio says. “You read a script — it’s got a beginning and an end. It’s hard to envision that being resurrected again.” But despite being one of the biggest movie stars, DiCaprio reveals he’s struggled to get financing for his projects since 2006’s “Blood Diamond,” which grossed $57 million domestically. “When I did ‘The Aviator,’ that was a $100 million epic about a guy — Howard Hughes from the 1930s — consumed by germs,” he says of the 2004 Martin Scorsese drama. “I don’t think two years later, I could have made that movie for another five years. There are ebbs and flows. Now with the onset of great television, the era of poetic epics is almost nonexistent on the big screen.”

Inarritu offers that all Hollywood executives are terrified of launching a big-budget film around characters who aren’t familiar. “If it’s not based on a brand or a book that’s sold millions, it’s scary as hell,” he says. But DiCaprio thinks the movie business will get its edge back. “It might actually get better,” he suggests. “When you don’t rely on studio systems, there are the subscriber-based networks like Netflix or Amazon.” He’s not sure if the typical model of windows — which keeps movies playing in theaters for 90 days — will continue to thrive. “Who knows what the hell the future of theatrical releases will be?” he says. “But right now, certainly a film like this is a rarity.”

And while “The Revenant” may have pushed DiCaprio to his limits in more ways than one, Inarritu teases it could also bring the star another first in his life. “We’re planning ‘The Revenant 2,’ ” he deadpans, as DiCaprio rolls his eyes. “It would be funny. Pre-production starts next week.”

 

http://variety.com/2015/film/news/the-revenant-leonardo-dicaprio-alejandro-g-inarritu-bear-oscars-1201661500/

Opps sorry for the post. It was already posted.

Gossip site with probably false rumors but still...

Leonardo DiCaprio moves in with his girlfriend.

Leo may finally have found the one! A source reveals to THE GOSSIP TABLE that Leonardo DiCaprio and his girlfriend, Victoria’s Secret model Toni Garrn, have taken the next step in their relationship — they moved in together!

“Leo bought the apartment [in March] and quickly moved Toni in with him,” a source reveals.

The Wolf of Wall Street star ditched his NYC bachelor pad and bought the $8 million, 2,300-square-foot unit in the same luxe Battery Park City building.

“It seems like they’re really enjoying living together,” the source says, adding that the couple of nearly a year always look “happy” and “relaxed” when spotted in the building.

 

They have been seen attending many sports games over the years. And it seems Leonardo DiCaprio wasn’t going to let Kevin Connolly’s broken leg get in the way of their favourite pastime as the pair were spotted watching a hockey match on Monday. The actors were engrossed in the NHL playoff game between the San Jose Sharks and the Los Angeles Kings which took place at the famous Staples Center in California.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2615661/Leonardo-DiCaprio-injured-Entourage-star-Kevin-Connolly-enjoy-ice-hockey-match.html

A girl ( http://instagram.com/catarina_bernardino ) posted a video of Leo at last night party on Instagram : http://instagram.com/p/nRA8quPTla/

My all time dream of seeing Leonardo Dicaprio live finally came true x

 

A tweet to add to yours Oxford :

G.Brown ‏@djGBROWN 41 s

Wow. Still recovering from @walshyfire's bday @ 1Oak last nite lmao! Diplo, Leo DiCaprio, Rihanna & Katy Perry. It was literally a movie

 

So around 0:20, Ellen mention that Leo played "Heads Up" with his friends all the time when he was in Cabo, so now let's imagine him playing.

The real Wolf of Wall Street? Nah. Dana Giacchetto, now under investigation again, calls himself the "Lamb of Wall Street" as he breaks his long-held silence about BFF DiCaprio, shares details of his intimate relationship with Ovitz, and asserts he had nothing to do with the suicide of CAA superstar Jay Moloney.

A old friend of Leo talked about him, here are some of his comments. I personally learned some things like the Academy Awards anecdote or the American Psycho one but there is a lot more on the article : http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mike-ovitz-leonardo-dicaprio-a-697394

The assumption now is that DiCaprio's experience with Giacchetto fueled his interest in doing The Wolf of Wall Street, though DiCaprio never has publicly said such a thing. Giacchetto claims to have heard what his old friend says on the subject. "People ask Leo, 'Was [Wolf] about Dana Giacchetto?' And he said, 'No, not exactly,' which is lovely," says Giacchetto.

 

Sources, though none for the record, confirm Giacchetto's accounts of the parties. "There were lots of weird sex scenes," says one prominent Giacchetto partygoer. The loft had $300 champagne, $5,000 hookers, top models, rockers, actors and artists. There also were two cockatoos, Angel and Tiberius -- one each for Giacchetto and DiCaprio. ays.

 

The night Titanic won 11 Oscars in 1998, DiCaprio skipped the ceremony; instead he and Giacchetto threw a party at the loft. "I was king of the world," says Giacchetto. "We projected the Academy Awards on the wall and had every star come to New York to give the middle finger because we felt the Academy Awards were a complete f---ing sellout and anti-punk rock."

 

Giacchetto says his relationships with many of his star clients went well beyond money. "I had a fight with [DiCaprio's then-manager] Rick Yorn," says Giacchetto. "He wanted Leonardo to make American Psycho," as did DiCaprio. "I called [Leo's dad], George, I called [Leo's mom], Irmelin. I said, 'Leo, if you do this movie, you must move out. Cutting people up? Is that what you're about?' Jay [Moloney, then in rehab] was like, 'What the f--- is Rick Yorn doing with Leo?' " (Yorn declined comment.) The part ultimately went to Christian Bale.

 

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mike-ovitz-leonardo-dicaprio-a-697394

From Instagram

http://instagram.com/gabrielamoussaieff#

Hmm.. The guy looks like Leo's bodyguard and we can see Toni on the left.

http://www.justjared.com/2014/04/16/leonardo-dicaprio-wrestles-a-friend-at-coachella-loses-badly-video/

The 39-year-old actor was attending Diddy‘s Revolt party on Sunday (April 13) when he and a pal got into a playful fight… and it didn’t end well for Leo. According to TMZ, the friend happens to have a background in MMA, so it doesn’t seem like it was a fair fight from the beginning.

 

Video right here : http://www.tmz.com/videos/0_5gafwh02

New : http://www.justjared.com/2014/04/13/leonardo-dicaprio-plays-it-cool-at-coachella-pool-party/
 

Leonardo DiCaprio keeps a low profile in his signature hat and sunglasses as he attends a Desert Pool Party held during the 2014 Coachella Music Festival on Saturday afternoon (April 12) at the Bootsy Bellows Estate in Rancho Mirage, Calif.

The 39-year-old actor chatted up some friends and checked his phone messages while hanging out in his private cabana.

New from last night I suppose.

source.

James Cameron talked a little bit about Leo during a recent interview.

On whether he feels he’s responsible for Leonardo DiCaprio’s stardom:

I think Leonardo, when I cast him in Titanic, he was well on his way. I think I helped him skip a rung or two on the ladder maybe, but he certainly would have gotten there on his own because he's one of the most talented actors of his generation. Do I still talk to him? Yes, occasionally. We're friendly but we're not close friends.

 

Leo & Toni out today. Rest of the pics are in the other thread. More on : http://www.justjared.com/2014/04/06/leonardo-dicaprio-toni-garrn-wear-matching-shirts-to-the-farmers-market/

Leonardo DiCaprio checks his cell phone messages while browsing the goods and tasting fresh juice at the farmer’s market on Sunday morning (April 6) in Beverly Hills, Calif.

The 39-year-old actor was joined by his supermodel girlfriend Toni Garrn, who wore the same-colored shirt. Too cute!

Leo & Toni today from PopSugar. There is also a lot more on : http://www.justjared.com/2014/04/06/leonardo-dicaprio-toni-garrn-wear-matching-shirts-to-the-farmers-market/

Leonardo DiCaprio checks his cell phone messages while browsing the goods and tasting fresh juice at the farmer’s market on Sunday morning (April 6) in Beverly Hills, Calif.

The 39-year-old actor was joined by his supermodel girlfriend Toni Garrn, who wore the same-colored shirt. Too cute!

 

Leonardo DiCaprio and Toni Garnn stepped out for a cute daytime shopping trip, spending their sunny Spring Sunday at the farmer's market in Beverly Hills, CA. The actor inspected and sniffed an item at a stand before making his purchase and walking through the main strip. Toni followed closely behind, indulging in some fruit as Leo checked his phone. The supermodel and her Oscar-nominated boyfriend might have coordinated their ensembles for the casual outing; her tank-top and pants matched with Leo's bright blue t-shit and white shorts!

 

Sighting , this girl is in LA.

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@tina_anne1 55 min

No big deal. Just walked past Leonardo Dicaprio at the farmers market! #freakingout

 

Sighting : 

@LiveItUp53 22 min

The fact that @bfetty1 saw @LeoDiCaprio at the airport pisses me off!!! Lucky SOB

 

New pics

Leonardo DiCaprio has a crowd of escorts surrounding him as he makes his way to a yacht boarding area on Sunday afternoon (March 23) in St. Barts

 

http://www.justjared.com/2014/03/23/leonardo-dicaprio-the-love-of-kate-winslets-life/

New pic from Instagram user : elisemyrvold. So he didn't live NYC yet.

Sightings apparently in LA.

@em_frazier 20 min

Hung out with Robin Thicke and Leonardo Dicaprio last night. No big deal.

I absolutely have no idea if it was posted, but here's a scan that I've never seen before :

New clip from CBS interview ; this time about his childhood.

 

Leonardo DiCaprio spent Valentine's Day wining and dining his stunning 21-year-old gal pal Toni Garrn at Bouley restaurant in the Tribeca neighborhood of New York City on Friday.

The 39-year-old actor gifted the Victoria's Secret model with a little black suede box and card as they cozied up together at the chic French eatery, an eyewitness told the Daily News.

"Toni looked delighted as she unwrapped a pair of pendant earrings and immediately put them on," the insider dished.

Garrn brushed back her blond hair so onlookers could admire the love token from the handsome star.

 

It seems DiCaprio wanted to keep things a bit more private as he put a flower pot on the table to hide from the prying eyes of an older couple across the room.

The duo indulged in a $225 a head gourmet dinner inside the restaurant's incredible ambiance of red roses attached to balloons floating around the gorgeous vaulted ceilings.

"Leo and Toni spent the evening doing a bit of kissing behind the foliage," the eyewitness added to the News.

The lovers came up for air when celebrity chef, David Bouley, headed over to their table to chat with them.

After their meal, the two got up from their table to join the older couple, which turned out to be DiCaprio's mother Irmelin dining with a male partner.

 

Looks like things may be getting serious!

DiCaprio recently opened up in an upcoming interview with CBS Sunday Morning about his thoughts on settling down.

"I think everybody, well, not everybody, but I think that, you know, eventually when the time is right, absolutely, yeah," he said of marriage.

"I've seen some interesting marriages and I've seen some not-interesting marriages," he continued.

DiCaprio is gearing up for next month's Oscars as he's nominated for his lead role in Martin Scorsese's "The Wolf of Wall Street."

The 86th Academy Awards will air live on ABC Sunday, March 2.

 

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/leo-dicaprio-spent-valentine-day-article-1.1615534#ixzz2tQJkQjt1

 

Aw !

Leo is here ! SO HANDSOME !