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10 Movies From 2002 That Still Hold Up 20 Years Later Although 2002 saw some beloved franchise entries and outright blockbusters, a handful of its films have become classics that hold up 20 years later. 1/10 Gangs of New York As 2002 came to a close, director Martin Scorsese took viewers back in time to 1846, when Protestant and Catholic gangs warred with one another over the Five Points neighborhood in New York. It's a period piece, but those need strong actors to anchor them, and between the chops of Daniel Day-Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Cameron Diaz, Gangs of New York is held firm. Without a contemporary setting to date it, Gangs of New York might very well have been made in 1992, or 2022. And certainly, the message still resonates, brought to life by the brutal massacre in Paradise Square by indiscriminate military guns: those in power set those who have none against one another, and in the end, their blood and sweat helps build the next layer of an empire. Source

^Leos side: It was never supposed for a public release in the first place. It was all about making money with the names of him and Tobey (after the success of TItanic and Spider-Man) by turning a short film into a feature without their permission. Others side: A response to that New York Post story. At some point Dale Wheatley even wrote an open letter blaming Leo and especially Tobey Maguire for everything what went wrong in Hollywood using his power and Leo and influence and shit. My side: Leo played a misogynistic dick in that movie. Of course he wasn't thrilled for everyone seeing this more important because most of the story were improvised. If Leo cares for one thing it's his serious public image as an actor. Even then it wouldn't have exactly looked -uhm- good for him; call it art or not. But honestly, I don't think this movie is worth all the fuss. The Five Scenes Leonardo DiCaprio Should Be Most Ashamed Of In ‘Don’s Plum’ The scene early on in the film where Leo’s character unloads on a character played by Amber Benson (who would go on to play Tara on Buffy the Vampire Slayer), calling her a c*nt and a “beeeyotch” and threatening to shove alternately his shoe and a bottle into her fave. Again: playing a character. But also: not the kind of character who fit in with the Romeo-then-Jack-Dawson trajectory of Leo’s career. There’s a later scene in the movie where Leo’s character calls Jenny Lewis’ character a whore for not having sex with him. (...) The question of how much of himself Leo was bringing to the role is unanswerable, but the idea that he was improvising these scenes with his buddies gives the whole film a kind of Stanford Prison Experiment meta-vibe. He probably would burn Critters 3 too if he had the opportunity lmao It's hard to tell what's the truth. However at least he's nice to look at LOL

I just posted this article because I have a question (and actually most comments are PRO Leo believe it or not lol): Ina Garten, Leonardo DiCaprio, And 13 Other Celebs People Have Lost Respect For Full list My question: Some people claiming Leo would "dump his girlfriends" when they reached the 25. I mean, yes he never dated (at least not officially) a woman over 25 BUT is it really always him who ended those relationships? I'm pretty sure Gisele and Blake for instance dumped HIM. Same for Kristen Zang.

Another nom 👍

^it's probably hard to find someone who hasn't admired Leo at some point. I mean even haters can't help but analyse him on a regular basis lmao

^Always thought he kinda looks like Leo sometimes lol

^I think Leo and Jake could do us the favor and just make a movie together.

^I vaguely remember those articles and times when Lainey still liked Leo LOL Thx for reposting.Sometimes it's interesting to read them again after all those years. Haven't Jen and Bradley made like a ton of movies together? Leo and Brad are friends so Leo and Jen have probably spent some time together automatically too. And like you said she's gorgeous. I don't think Leos feeling for her -if he ever had some- were brotherly but who knows.

Spider-Man is my favorite Marvel hero so I'm still kinda okay if that crazy cameo would happen Not that I really believe it but it would be the most epic cameo ever happen in marvel cinema history. Doctor Strange 2: Leonardo DiCaprio Trends After Being Included in 'Leaked' Cast List The leak claims Leo is playing a variant version of Spider-Man. I think we can all agree that Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is one of the most theory-driven Marvel films we've had in quite a while and the amount of fan theories and rumors surrounding the Benedict Cumberbatch and Elizabeth Olsen team-up project is insane, to say the least. Now, one crazy rumor is spreading like wildfire across social media and it concerns a certain actor who almost played an iconic Marvel superhero. An alleged end credits crawl recently "leaked" online and it features a jaw-dropping list of actors who are rumored to be involved in the project, including Don't Look Up star Leonardo DiCaprio who is said to be playing a variant Spider-Man. To those unaware, Leo was set to star in James Cameron's scrapped Spidey film from the late '90s, a project that would later spawn Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy starring Tobey Maguire. Other actors included in the list are Hugh Jackman, Chris Evans, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Sophie Turner, Jessica Alba, Ben Stiller, Ben Affleck, and Henry Cavill. Check it out here: Source

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Death of Gaspard Ulliel: his funeral will take place on January 27 in Paris FUNERAL – The opportunity to pay a last tribute to the French actor. Gaspard Ulliel’s agent announced on Saturday January 22 that the funeral of the actor who died at the age of 37 after a skiing accident, will be scheduled for Thursday January 27 in Paris. His agent, Laurent Grégoire, spoke to AFP to indicate that this ceremony will take place in the Saint-Eustache church, in the 1st arrondissement of the capital. However, it has not yet been specified whether or not this ceremony will be open to the public. The accidental death of Gaspard Ulliel has sparked a multitude of tributes, from the political world to that of the cinema, to a man who had a brilliant career and was very popular in the cinema world. An accident “in fairly simple circumstances” An investigation was entrusted by the Albertville public prosecutor’s office to the CRS Alpes to clarify the circumstances of the fatal collision between Gaspard Ulliel and another skier, which occurred on Tuesday January 18 in the resort of La Rosière, in Bourg-Saint-Maurice. Investigators from the CRS Alpes d’Albertville, this police unit in charge of high mountain resorts, have since been working to “investigate the causes of death” of the 37-year-old actor. And according to their first findings, the investigation is heading towards a dismissal, no responsibility being apparently engaged. “According to these first testimonies and the observations made on the spot, the two skiers were moving side by side and ran into each other”, explains Anne Gaches, the public prosecutor of Albertville. “For the moment, it is difficult to say whether it was the shock or the fall that led to Mr. Ulliel’s death”. In addition, the prosecutor added that there is nothing to ensure that wearing a helmet on the side of the actor would have changed the outcome of the accident. Indeed, if the other skier involved, a man of Lithuanian origin, was wearing a helmet, this was not the case for Gaspard Ulliel. “This accident is very sad but the circumstances are quite simple, there is no particular complexity”, finally concluded Anne Gaches. Source

Leonardo DiCaprio puts a nine-year ‘ticking clock’ on climate crisis- is he right? The actor and environmentalist highlighted the importance of keeping global heating to 1.5 degrees Celsius Leonardo DiCaprio has a warning for humanity, not unlike his scientist character in the Netflix film Don’t Look Up: something dangerous is hurtling imminently towards us, and we don’t have much time left to change things. However instead of the film’s massive comet, it’s the climate crisis he wants us to pay attention to in the real world. “I’ve had two great passions in my life. That has been acting, and the protection of the natural world and getting the message out about the climate crisis,” the Oscar winner told Deadline this week. “I think there’s a worldwide sense of anxiety about the fact that the powers that be, the private sector, governments, are not making the transition fast enough. We literally have a nine-year window.” It’s not the first time DiCaprio has spoken about the dire state of the climate. The actor is a United Nations climate ambassador and philanthropist who has spent tens of millions of dollars on environmental protections. (Though critics would note he also loves flying in private jets and partying on gas-guzzling mega-yachts.) “Climate change is real, it is happening right now,” he told a global audience during his 2016 Oscars acceptance speech for Best Actor in The Revenant. “It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating.” Don’t Look Up, a thinly-veiled climate allegory with a single-week record of 152 million viewing hours on Netflix, has also provided the actor with a platform to advocate for global climate action. DiCaprio warned this week of the serious global heating impacts beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius, the most ambitious temperature threshold outlined in the 2015 Paris Agreement among all nations. “If we reach this 1.5-degree threshold, where we hit that certain point in nature, there’s all kinds of lightning-rod points with methane and the tundra and warming of our oceans, the acidification of our oceans,” he told Deadline. He argued that the US has a special obligation to lead on climate because Americans are both disproportionately rich and disproportionately big polluters. Does Leo have a point? Are we really screwed unless everything changes in nine years? We decided to ask some climate experts. First things first, the 1.Celsius (C) bit. That number comes from the Paris deal and represents the aspirational target of the global agreement which seeks to hold warming below 2C. Estimates vary, but the scientists of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world’s foremost authority on the crisis, suggest we could hit 1.5 C by the early 2030s. The World Meteorological Organization also found that there’s a 40 per cent chance of hitting the threshold within the next five years. Even if the average global temperature is held to around 1.5C (above preindustrial times), humanity will continue to experience severe impacts including deadly heatwaves, flash floods and more powerful hurricanes. “With every additional increment of global warming, changes in extremes continue to become larger,” the IPCC stated last year. It’s just a matter of severity. At 2C, there is the threat of twice the sea-level rise compared to at 1.5C, and three times as many people around the world facing severe heatwaves. These climate benchmarks are important but shouldn’t obscure the fact that the crisis is already well underway, says Kristie Ebi, a professor of global health at the University of Washington who studies climate impacts. “We’re already on track. We’re already seeing far too many people suffer and die in heat waves,” she told The Independent, recounting the horrors of 2021’s brutal “heat dome” in the Pacific Northwest which killed an estimated 600 people and more than 1 billion marine animals. The oppressive heatwave caused a 69-fold increase in people seeking hospital care, she said, as well as crop failure and the decimation of coastal shellfish populations important to Native American tribes in the region. Each incremental increase in climate change will cause further harm, she says, and it’s important to remember that they will not be shared equally. The most vulnerable will be hit the hardest. “The Earth is going to be fine,” she said. “The question is what’s going to happen to us. The Earth will pull through and eventually ecosystems will evolve into different kinds of ecosystems. It’s really what we are doing to ourselves.” Noah Diffenbaugh, a professor of Earth system science at Stanford University, agrees. People need only to look at decreasing snowpacks, unprecedented weather events, and numerous other signs to see the climate crisis affecting them now - not in nine years. The Earth is a dynamic system, he says. Global climate policy, climate change, and its impacts interact with each other elliptically. Further, climate features like permafrost, polar ice sheets, and snow melt have non-linear properties. In other words, once pushed to certain tipping points, they will start producing exponentially more dangerous climate impacts in a negative feedback loop. “The question of how much time do we have is really a question of how do we supply the global energy needs for the world population, for the energy that’s necessary for wellbeing, while reducing emissions and reaching net zero, while also adapting to the climate change that’s already happened and the further climate change that will happen along the way,” he says. “Each one of those is a grand challenge in and of itself. Doing all three simultaneously is what is required to manage the accelerating risks of global warming.” Hard lines and targets matter less than doing everything in our power to become more sustainable, as soon as possible. “There are no bright lines in terms of global temperature,” he said. “Even if we hold warming to 1.5 or 2C, that’s more than we already have. That’s more climate change, and we can expect more impacts than we already have, which highlights the role of both mitigation and adaptation.” Trying to communicate the complexity of this can be a challenge, he added, and he empathized with DiCaprio’s character, Dr Randall Mindy, in Don’t Look Up. “I recognize a lot of the challenges in communicating both what is understood and what is uncertain,” Diffenbaugh said. But no matter if you’re a climate researcher or a world-famous actor, the science is clear. We need to act now. We don’t have nine years to waste. Source

‘Leonardo DiCaprio has no ego’: Himesh Patel He was portrait of humility, claims Patel who worked with DiCaprio on ‘Don’t Look Up’ Getting to work with Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio has been a dream for many. Cambridgeshire-born Indian-origin actor Himesh Patel got lucky with Netflix’s recently-released ‘Don’t Look Up’, in which he shared screen space not only with DiCaprio but also with Jennifer Lawrence. In an interview with ANI, Himesh reminisced about working with the stalwarts of the industry in the sci-fi drama. “Leonardo and Jennifer are lovely people. I am still pinching myself thinking that I worked with them. They are generous. Also, it was wonderful to see actors of that level to remain humble and hardworking every time. Leonardo and Jennifer never brought any sort of ego to the sets in that way (despite their stardom)... and that’s what makes them such great actors,” he said. Directed by Academy Award winner Adam McKay, ‘Don’t Look Up’ is a satire about climate change. The film centrally revolves around the story of two astronomers who discover that a comet is approaching Earth and would lead to the destruction of life as we know it. While talking more about the film, Patel could not resist heaping praises on McKay. “I think when you’re working with a filmmaker like Adam, you do what you need to do within the truth of the scene. And filmmaker like Adam will know exactly what he’s doing, and how it all fits together...you can really put your trust in a filmmaker like that. So, I was just doing what needed to be done and trusting Adam to steer the ship,” he added. Source

Haha I kinda wish. I mean imagine how beautiful that young man would be 🤩Don't know why I picture a son, but it came straight to my mind while reading your post lol Probably because of DLU.

I've also read something was going on with Virginie Ledoyen in Thailand. Once again I don't know if it was just a rumor.

I've read somewhere back then he had to re-shoot those scenes with Cameron because of lack of chemistry plus they seemed more like brother and sister on screen than lovers according to some early test audience lol Don't know if that was really true.

Agree with that 💯 She's also very much his type. Tall, curvy, blonde, beautiful and back in 2013 under 25 lmao

^what makes you think he had a crush on JLaw? Just wondering ☺️ Kate, Margot I agree. I would say def Claire Danes too (but couldn't handle it at all back then).

Why Camila Morrone doesn’t care about her 23-year age gap with Leonardo DiCaprio When Camila Morrone, 24, and Academy Award-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio, 47, first went public with their relationship back in 2017, both she and DiCaprio were met with plenty of criticism. Many believed that these two celebs should find someone their own age seeing as their 23-year age gap was simply too hard to ignore. But flash forward to today, and the couple is still going strong despite the huge age difference. What’s the secret to making this relationship work? Well, it may have everything to do with Morrone, herself, not caring about age. Camila Morrone and Leonardo DiCaprio In 2019, Camila Morrone came forward with a statement following the overflow of disapproval about her pairing with Leonardo DiCaprio. “There’s so many relationships in Hollywood — and in the history of the world — where people have large age gaps,” the actress said at the time. “I just think anyone should be able to date who they want to date.” So it looks like Morrone is fine with the age gap simply because it’s not uncommon and she wants to be with whoever her heard desires. And that’s pretty fair. While a few people seemed to agree with Morrone’s sentiment, however, many simply couldn’t overlook the fact that this wasn’t her boyfriend’s first rodeo dating someone much younger. During his relationship with Gossip Girl actress Blake Lively in 2011, DiCaprio was 36 years old while Lively was 23. It was a similar situation for his previous brief flings with Bar Refaeli, Erin Heatherton, Toni Garrn and Nina Agdal, all of whom were at least 10 years younger than DiCaprio when they were with him but were no older than 25 when he broke it off with them. This is why many (sort of) joke about his refusal to date anyone older than 25 years old. In knowing his past, it’s hard for people to not feel strongly about their opinion towards Morrone and DiCaprio’s age gap, seeing it as something that could end badly for Morrone once she hits a certain age. But the actress seemingly understands all the chatter, as she stated, “I probably would be curious about it too.” Nevertheless, the two have continued with their relationship and seem to be nearing the endgame. But even if they aren’t, Morrone wishes for her identity to be more than “the super young person who dated Leonardo DiCaprio.” “I feel like there should always be an identity besides who you’re dating,” she expressed. “I understand the association, but I’m confident that will continue to slip away and be less of a conversation.” Source

Was this interview posted? Working With Jennifer Lawrence A Dream Come True For Leonardo DiCaprio Though it was released in 2021, Don’t Look Up continues to be 2022’s most buzzed-about film so far. Although a lot of that buzz is coming from the film’s topical plot, it certainly doesn’t hurt that it’s got a pair of Oscar winners in its lead roles. Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio star in the movie, and it’s the first time these highly acclaimed actors have shared a screen together. For DiCaprio, the experience was definitely worth the wait, and he talked to us about why he enjoyed it so much. (Click on the media bar below to hear Leonardo DiCaprio) https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/2022/01/19/working-with-jennifer-lawrence-a-dream-come-true-for-leonardo-dicaprio/

^honestly that's a thought I had already too about him. And I mean if so he's right. More people doesn't help to save the planet at all.

^whatever makes him happy and in those last vacation pics with Cami (some said with Lukas lol) he seemed very happy so it's all fine I guess.

^I really really wonder at which point in his life Leo decided to want not having kids. Because I heard him literally a dozen of times speaking about having a family "one day" and I don't think he said such things just to satisfied the press. He also seems so natural with children. When I see the beach pics of him and Camila surrounded by their parents, playing with kids, and dogs... it all screams "family" to me. He kinda seemed like the guy who would love to have this big italian famiglia (loud and wild and happy) but on the other hand he seems sometimes like this big alpha wolf who never really found his own cozy spot to rest. I mean he has many people he's deeply connected with for years but still... I don't know. It's a little mysterium to me.

^Toni Garrn talked a bit about her relationship with Leo in some german podcast, too. Same for Erin Heatherton. This is why I actually don't believe in the whole contract thing.