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Idris Elba talking yet again about Leo Idris Elba has Leonardo DiCaprio to thank for his 'realistic' lion fight in 'Beast' When adventure calls, Idris Elba lets it go to voicemail. "If I go on vacation – and that's a big if – I'm good with sitting still," says the actor, who finds himself on the holiday from hell in his new survival thriller, "Beast." "My wife (model Sabrina Dhowre) is not that: She wants to be a tourist and get around, but I'm fine just being chill and looking at my environment. I'm very boring like that." Elba's latest onscreen outings are anything but dull: In "Beast" (in theaters Friday), he plays a widowed doctor named Nate Samuels, whose South African getaway with his young daughters (Iyana Halley and Leah Sava Jeffries) is thrown into chaos by a ravenous lion. And in "Three Thousand Years of Longing" (in theaters Aug. 26), he stars as a genie who must grant three wishes for a lonely scholar (Tilda Swinton). (...) "The actual fighting of the lion was really difficult," Elba says. "There were no lions used in the making of this film," so he worked closely with movement performers and stuntmen in motion-capture suits to create the computer-generated predator. He also re-watched 2015 survival drama "The Revenant," in which Leonardo DiCaprio gets brutally mauled by a grizzly bear. "The bear sequence that Leonardo does is really realistic and is sort of a benchmark in terms of what we wanted to achieve for the audience," Elba says. "Because everyone who watched that was horrified." Full article

Gabriel Byrne about Leo and working with him in THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK. Also Leo should be killed from some psycho? 😯 Gabriel Byrne is a big admirer of Leonardo DiCaprio: ‘He was on an assassin’s hitlist – how do you deal with that aged 23?’ Irish actor and filmmaker Gabriel Byrne, 72, on the night someone tried to bottle assassin’s target Leonardo DiCaprio – and carrying more luggage than Joan Collins. You worked with Leonardo DiCaprio on The Man In The Iron Mask. Did he deal with fame differently to someone such as Richard Burton? I admire the way that Leo has dealt with it because he experienced fame on a global scale. What that brings out in people can be truly unnerving and sometimes scary. Somebody smashed a bottle and tried to stick it in his face one night at a party. I recount in the book that Gianni Versace was assassinated and Leo was one of the people on that killer’s list. I remember the day after, Leo was walking on to the set surrounded by five security men because they were afraid he was going to be next. How do you deal with that at 23? Source

Glad to hear. Also thx for the "easy" explanation @oxford25 It appears he didn't like ELVIS so I guess you're right he's just pissed. And also highly unprofessional for a critic. https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2022/8/ac1vtxvkp7vbooq1efet1nbhyq9007

Gigi just being back in California when Leo is lol

^To me it sounds more they spent money strategically to change politics for the cause of climate change. What's maybe not necessarily a bad thing -sometimes you just have to fight dirty because everyone around you is fighting dirty too- but it's still illegal. It also seems like it wasn't Leo but his back then CEO of the foundation who made those poorly decisions. Still unclear how much Leo was aware/involved in all of this. No wonder he gave up the foundation in his name. What a mess. Yet again

It also seems like Leo (or his former foundation) is a bit in trouble? To be honest I only understand half of this article. I couldn't even tell what he or the foundation is being accused of. Maybe someone can explain in easy words? https://www.foxnews.com/politics/leonardo-dicaprio-funneled-grants-dark-money-group-fund-climate-nuisance-lawsuits-emails-show

A bit more input about upcoming THE WAGER. Martin Scorsese's The Wager: Plot, Cast, and Everything Else We Know After Killers of the Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio are reuniting for Apple TV+'s The Wager. Here's what to know! Apple TV+ has been dominating viewers' screens since its November 2019 launch, quickly rising in priority on users' subscribed lists. The streamer has attached Martin Scorsese to The Wager, based on author David Grann's historical nonfiction epic, with Leonardo DiCaprio to star. This will be Scorsese and DiCaprio's seventh project together, after movies like The Wolf of Wall Street, Gangs of New York, The Departed, Shutter Island, and soon, Apple TV's Flower Moon, also starring Robert De Niro. What can we expect from this all-star duo's seventh reunion on the screen? Imperative Entertainment's Dan Friedkin and Bradley Thomas are producing with Scorsese via Sikelia Productions, while DiCaprio and his partner Jennifer Davisson will produce through their company Appian Way Productions. The executive producer is Richard Pleper through the Eden Productions banner. A lot of weight is being thrown behind this project, so let's jump into what Scorsese and DiCaprio fans should know about The Wager and Grann's critically acclaimed novels! The Wager: The Plot Bestselling author David Grann's soon-to-be-released 2023 novel The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder is a tale of shipwreck, mutiny, and murder, according to preliminary descriptions. The novel centers on thirty barely alive and emaciated men who washed ashore in Brazil on a desperately improvised raft on January 28th, 1742. The men are survivors of a top-secret treasure hunting ship, His Majesty's The Wager. During the imperial war with Spain, the ship wrecked while in pursuit of "the prize of all oceans," a Spanish ship loaded with priceless valuables. After months of being stranded on a desert island, the surviving men built the raft and drifted at sea for a hundred days before landing as heroes on the shores of Brazil. This isn't even the story's most interesting part, but what happens next is. Six months after this event, a raft in even worse shape washes ashore in Chile, hosting three castaways who had a very different perspective of the events recounted by the thirty. According to these three castaways, the thirty heroes of The Wager were guilty of the worst treason imaginable in His Majesty's navy: they were mutineers. Accusations fly, and the stakes are acquittal or execution in Grann's intense tale of loyalty and betrayal, truth and lie, anarchy and duty. The Wager: The Cast & Crew The only known names attached to the film at this point are Scorsese and DiCaprio. Though we have yet to see Killers of the Flower Moon, which is due to be released in May 2023, we can expect that Scorsese will lend both to it and The Wager his distinct, haunting, and immersive style to the tales. The harshly divided subject matter of The Wager gives the legendary filmmaker a lot to sink his teeth into as a master craftsman. It is sure to be another committed performance by DiCaprio, who also made the survival drama The Revenant so unforgettable. The Wager is a story with human drama, gruesome visuals, and unforgiving motivation, which is up Scorsese's alley. The international setting and enormous implications of the story's premise are very contained to this one time period, this particular affair, and this era of dominance of the British Navy. We can only assume Scorsese will capitalize on its broader themes and relevance to the larger population. All he needs is DiCaprio to bring it to life. We look forward to hearing more casting announcements in the months to come. Other Related Projects to Be Excited About This isn't the only Grann novel that Apple TV+ will be adapting. Tom Hiddleston is set to headline and executive produce the film The White Darkness, a harrowing polar exploration drama based on the novel of the same name with Soo Hugh and Mark Heyman. Apple TV has also finished production of the Grann-written, Scorsese-directed, and DiCaprio-starring Killers of the Flower Moon based on the Grann novel. It was also produced by Imperative and is set in an oil-wealthy Osage Nation in 1920s Oklahoma. Grann has proven himself to be an engrossing, dynamic novelist, and it is exciting that the mammoth Apple streaming service has so eagerly devoured his works. Seeing such original and prolific authors get their due in mainstream Hollywood is an inspiring development for cinephiles desperate for new, never before seen stories. There have been a lot of complaints that mainstream Hollywood is all sequels as of late, so Apple TV's continuation of its reputation as a hub for brand new blockbuster content is music to many ears. It's about time more new novels, especially ones as unique and special as Grann's, was seized and developed for TV-watching audiences. Release Date The Wager novel will be available on April 18th, 2023. A release date for the film adaptation has not yet been announced. Source

I haven't seen any of those top 5 performances but Austins and I think he gave one of the best performances I ever saw (in a biopic). And yes claiming Leo needs a "weak" year to get a chance for his 2nd oscar is... very poorly worded lol But I also think all those awards aren't anymore what they used to be. They lost everything special to me.

Kate and Leo on Titanic set. The way he's holding her

Erewhon Market in Studio City, Calif. (August 14)

One more KOTFM snippet of Jordan Ruimy (well it's more his opinion but whatever lol). Oscars: Clayton Takes on the Best Actor Race .. I already tackled the Best Actor race on 08.05.22 Variety’s Clayton Davis is more or less in agreement with what I consider to be the current top 5: Austin Butler (Elvis) Brendan Fraser (The Whale) Hugh Jackman (The Son) Bill Nighy (Living) Adam Driver (White Noise) Others: Tom Cruise (Top Gun: Maverick), Daniel Giménez Cacho (Bardo), Christian Bale (Amsterdam), Jeremy Pope (The Inspection), Diego Calva (Babylon) I’m more prone to believe that, given this seems to be a fairly weak year for prominent male lead performances, Tom Cruise in “Top Gun: Maverick” should be taken very seriously. It’s such a weak year for male acting that if I were Paramount/Apple I’d really try hard to push that December deadline on Scorsese/Schoonmaker for “Killers of the Flower Moon.” This is the absolutely perfect year to release that film and campaign DiCaprio’s performance. Source If Tom Cruise wins an oscar for that overwhelmingly cringy Top Gun performance I'm done with the oscars forever

First look at apples upcoming show Shantaram. HQ

I wanna see this screen test so badly 😭 Bonus (masterpiece indeed)

Right? 😄 But Seb is awesome.🔪🍑🩸🍽️

^At least Armie didn't bite her LOL

I mean he was insanely talented and his on screen presence is... just wow I won't argue with you over that for a blink LOL He was also very attractive. Full package.

Or that's exactly his secret? Never got the chance to mess things up so he became idealized instead.

There is a biopic simply called JAMES DEAN from 2001 if you're interested in such stuff (I think you can stream it on prime). James Franco is problematic (but half of Hollywood is) but I always thought he comes closer to James Dean than Leo. The movie wasn't that bad actually and I think it's Francos best work. Of course no one is coming close to Deans perfect mix of beauty, vulnerability... ... and unique softness Even though James Dean is considered as rebel there is always some subservience in his body language until he isn't He's interesting I agree the kind of person you can't look away from. I think James Franco captured all of this very good.

Director Michael Mann about how he wanted Leo as James Dean. There's even a screen test. CAN WE PLS SEE IT MR MANN?????????????? Michael Mann nixed his James Dean biopic over Leonardo DiCaprio's youthful looks Leonardo DiCaprio may be the king of the world, but he lost his shot at becoming a rebel without a cause. While speaking with Deadline about his Heat sequel/prequel novel, director Michael Mann revealed that he ended up making Heat — and abandoning a planned James Dean biopic — because he grew tired of waiting for his top choice for the role, DiCaprio, to age into the part. "That was so weird about James Dean," Mann said. "It was a brilliant screenplay. And then it's who the hell could play James Dean? And I found a chap who could play James Dean, but he was too young. It was Leo. We did a screen test that's quite amazing. I think he must've been 19 at the time." "And from one angle, he totally had it with him," he continued. "I mean, it's brilliance. He would turn his face in one direction and we see a vision of James Dean, and then he'd turn his face another direction and it's no, that's a young kid. He respectfully undid the James Dean bio for me." DiCaprio was regarded for his baby-face good looks early in his career, a boyish charm that lent itself naturally to titles such as Romeo + Juliet and Titanic. But it is a bit perplexing that he wasn't old enough to portray Dean, who was, in fact, only 24 when he died after making three films. Mann could've returned to the biopic after Heat when DiCaprio had aged a bit more, or selected another actor from the crop of young talents on the rise in the mid-1990s. Dean's short life has since been chronicled on screen, most notably by James Franco in a 2001 TV movie and by Dane DeHaan in 2015's Life (coincidentally, both stars have also played Harry Osborn in Spider-Man films). But for Mann, it was either DiCaprio or Dicapri-no for his Dean project. Source cute #cinematic parallels we deserve East of Eden (1955) Romeo & Juliet (1996)

^nice one

Cute pic of Leo 😍 Source

Don't think I ever saw the 2nd one with his mouth open 😯 I also never figured out from which scene and who's hand this is???

According to VF THE WAGER will be Scorseses next feature film. Since Marty is near 80 I can't imagine the wait will be that long to start with shooting. Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio Prepare to Get Salty With The Wager A true Age of Sail adventure re-teams the pair with Killers of the Flower Moon author and Apple. Martin Scorsese will have to swap in a few “weigh anchor”s in between “action” and “cut” during production of his next feature film. The 79-year-old director has firmly attached himself to the hull of Apple Original Films, who have secured for him the rights to the forthcoming non-fiction book The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder by David Grann, as per The Hollywood Reporter. The new movie will be a re-teaming of Scorsese and Grann, who authored Killers of the Flower Moon, which is currently in post-production and eyeing a Cannes 2023 debut. What’s more, Leonardo DiCaprio, who stars in Flower Moon, will be back in the lead for The Wager. The actor-director team have worked together numerous times over the last 20 years, beginning with Gangs of New York, then on The Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island, and, most recently, The Wolf of Wall Street. The HMS Wager was a Royal Navy ship that was wrecked off the coast of Latin America in 1741. The story involves tales of survival in a brutal Patagonian winter, chasing Spanish treasure, mutiny, and, no doubt, a lot of men batting around terms like “gunwale,” “leeward,” “fo’c’sle,” and “mizzenmast.” Chances are we won’t hear the Rolling Stones in this one, but you never know. Scorsese, DiCaprio, and Apple’s current project, Killers of the Flower Moon, also based on a true story, concerns a group of murders within the Osage Nation in the 1920s when oil was discovered on the land. It co-stars Robert DeNiro, Jesse Plemons, Lily Gladstone, and Tantoo Cardinal. Musicians Jason Isbell and Sturgill Simpson are also listed in the cast. Robbie Robertson, a frequent Scorsese collaborator (and ex-roommate!) is composing the score. Robertson’s mother was indigenous, and raised on a First Nations reserve, which has informed much of Robertson’s work over the years. The film was shot on location in Oklahoma. Martin Scorsese has done just about everything with a camera, but he hasn’t done an Age of Sail picture. Indeed, other than the ending of Cape Fear, he’s tended to stick to dry land—even if Manhattan is an island. We’re bringing life preservers to this one. Source

‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Reshoots [Update] Supposedly, the reshoots occurring next week in New York for Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” have to do with the film’s coda/epilogue, which is said take place away from the film’s main drama in Oklahoma, similarly to the final stretches in “Silence” and “The Irishman.”