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Was this already posted? Adam McKay about Leos commitment to his role in DLU. Director of Don’t Look Up, Adam McKay was interviewed by Entertainment Weekly Magazine for their November issue to talk about the Oval Office scene, which we got a sneak peak of during Netflix’s first Tudum Global Event. While speaking about the scene which involves Leo’s Dr. Randall Mindy & Jen Lawrence’s Kate Dibiasky as they have a meeting with the president Janie Orlean (Meryl Streep) & her son/Chief of Staff Jason (Jonah Hill) to warn them about the comet that is about to hit earth, McKay commented on just how dedicated to role Leo got. Throughout the film, particularly in this scene, Dr. Mindy’s dialogue about the comet has a lot of astronomical jargon that comes with it. As Leo is always so committed to the roles that he plays & in most cases goes beyond what is expected of him when it comes to portraying the characters in his movies, when it came to playing Dr. Randall Mindy he did nothing less then this. To convincingly play his character who is an astronomy professor at Michigan State university, Leo meet & spoke with real-life astronomer & film consultant Amy Mainzer. Here is what McKay said about just how committed Leo got to his role in the film, “Leo the guy doesn’t half-step it. He had these long conversations about the real mathematics behind this. He really did get about six months of quality education on orbital dynamics”. Source

More of Leo in Glasgow. Source Source Source Clip (Leo walking while looking tall and slim and handsome): https://www.instagram.com/p/CVxrd0XgiB4/

^Because I had a LOT OF FREE TIME the last days I found this adorable very creative and very Leo loving family doing great Leo things every halloween #leobeingleo Can you name the movies? 🎬 01.) 02.) 03.) 04.) 05.) 06.)

Same girl, same. Me at every error in the past days. it felt like thousands of them

#RJat25 spam train #not sorry Baz Luhrman is spoiling us There's so much detail in this scene that I’ll cover later in my Q&A, but what was extraordinary was that this church in Mexico was actually real. We had a very supportive parish that allowed us to shoot the final death scene in here (adhering to certain stipulations, of course). I have to say in the history of all my work, the night we spent in that candlelit church was one of the most serene and beautiful shooting experiences of my life…🙏 #RJat25 Source

#RJat25 spam train #not sorry Great article about one of the greatest interpretations of Shakespeare on screen. Don't argue with me on that. I Panned Romeo + Juliet in 1996. Now I Think It's One of the Best Shakespeare Adaptations Romeo and Juliet is rarely lauded as the greatest of Shakespeare’s plays, an honor that usually goes to Hamlet or Macbeth or King Lear. Yet Romeo and Juliet might be the most important Shakespeare: It’s the one almost everybody reads first, the one that entices our young, unformed selves to struggle with its language, initially so strange to modern ears. It’s a story of gang wars fueled by testosterone, love at first sight, and melodramatic, I-can’t-live-without-you double suicide, but it’s also the gateway drug to one of the richest, most resonant bodies of work in the English language. Romeo and Juliet is a crazy-beautiful play, and although there are thousands of ways to adapt it, from staid to gonzo, Baz Luhrmann’s William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet—25 years old this week—is, among film versions, perhaps the most purely alive. Romeo and Juliet is rarely lauded as the greatest of Shakespeare’s plays, an honor that usually goes to Hamlet or Macbeth or King Lear. Yet Romeo and Juliet might be the most important Shakespeare: It’s the one almost everybody reads first, the one that entices our young, unformed selves to struggle with its language, initially so strange to modern ears. It’s a story of gang wars fueled by testosterone, love at first sight, and melodramatic, I-can’t-live-without-you double suicide, but it’s also the gateway drug to one of the richest, most resonant bodies of work in the English language. Romeo and Juliet is a crazy-beautiful play, and although there are thousands of ways to adapt it, from staid to gonzo, Baz Luhrmann’s William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet—25 years old this week—is, among film versions, perhaps the most purely alive. But the actors in Luhrmann’s version, Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes, aged 21 and 17 at the time of filming, are even more luminous than Zeffirelli’s gorgeously youthful duo, and in today’s context, their performances are even more touching than they were 25 years ago. The film overall has aged better than you’d think—which is to say it has hardly aged at all. Although Luhrmann and co-writer Craig Pearce had to trim the play to fit into a reasonable two-hour runtime, their script largely preserves the original language. Watching Romeo + Juliet today is to be reminded of the wonder of Shakespeare, a writer whose work is so capacious and elastic that it can enfold countless interpretations and reinventions, winning over one generation after another with ease. Lurhmann and his longtime production and costume designer Catherine Martin (also his wife) re-envisioned the play’s Verona setting in Mexico City and Veracruz, incorporating real-life locations—like Mexico City’s extravagantly decorated Immaculate Heart of Mary Church—into the story. Guns, rather than swords and daggers, are the weapons of choice, and like many of the props and costumes used in the film, they’re adorned with vibrant Catholic iconography—a handgun decorated with a benevolent Virgin Mary makes for a particularly vivid and painful irony. The Montague gang, a bunch of blockhead yobbos who favor tropical shirts unbuttoned over bare chests, stand off against the Capulet guys, a crew of slickly dressed urban cowboys in Cuban-heeled boots, with a hatred that’s white-hot. The Capulet Tybalt (John Leguizamo) is a sly devil with a soul patch and twin spit-curls, a sexy hothead who’s been carrying a grudge so long he has no idea how it started. That’s the essential tragedy of the Capulets and the Montagues: They have no idea why they’re fighting, but their warring ways mean that the union of the Montague Romeo and the Capulet Juliet is hopeless. In Luhrmann’s vision, the most affecting casualty of the gang wars between the two is Romeo’s bestie Mercutio—a loyal companion who is possibly in love with his friend—played by Harold Perrineau as a glittery-gorgeous heir to disco legend Sylvester. Luhrmann’s film is a dizzying assemblage of fast cutting and mad camera swirls; scenes sometimes chop off abruptly, leaving you reaching out, longing for more—but even that is part of the movie’s brash, prismatic lyricism, and because of it, Perrineau’s entrance is one of the most memorable in all of 1990s cinema: He arrives on the scene—a crumbling seaside amusement park—leaping out of a convertible in a two-piece silver mini-shorts outfit and heels, wearing a white candy-floss wig, his lips a smear of red lipstick. The song that heralds his arrival is Kym Mazelle’s version of the Candi Staton hit “Young Hearts Run Free.” He’s here, he’s queer, get used to it: Perrineau’s Mercutio is a bold pirouette of freedom. His death at Tybalt’s hand—which occurs just as, in real life, a storm was brewing in Veracruz, where the scene was being shot—leaves a hole in the film. It’s a turning point that feels like a personal wound. That’s just one example of the piercing immediacy of Romeo + Juliet. And the film’s array of gifted actors—some of whom are completely comfortable with Shakespearean language, others attempting it for possibly the first time—is part of its ever-unfolding delight. The late Pete Postlethwaite is both rousing and affecting as Father Laurence (his name a slight variation on the play’s Friar Laurence), an optimistic man of the cloth who hopes that the love between two young people will heal the rift between warring families. The marvelous character actor Miriam Margolyes is effervescent as Juliet’s loyal, adoring Nurse. Paul Rudd makes a beaming, squeaky-clean “Dave” Paris, the suitor Juliet’s parents (played by Paul Sorvino and Diane Venora) have chosen for her, never mind that he’s all wrong. Because there’s only one true husband for Danes’ Juliet, and you know it from the moment the two meet, at a costume ball at the Capulets’ swanky mansion. DiCaprio’s disguised Romeo spies his Juliet from the other side of an aquarium shimmering with polychrome fish. First he sees just one coquettish eye: it’s framed by a piece of coral, like a jewel. The moment the two spot one another is so radiant with possibility it defies language. This is how a great filmed version of Shakespeare can unlock a whole world, especially for a young person who’s anxious about comprehending the language. DiCaprio’s Romeo—first glimpsed in a moody moment by the sea, as he writes in his journal—is practically alight with a charming, nonthreatening openness. But it’s Danes who’s most heartrending: Her features have a malleable softness. In her moment of deepest despair, her face crumples—it is one of the most naked instances of ugly-crying in the movies, and Danes raises her hand to her face almost instinctively, to shield us from Juliet’s pain, and to afford her character some privacy. When Romeo + Juliet was first released, many critics scoffed. I was one of them—I believe I referred to the film as “garish junk” in my review. But in the days after I filed that review, I kept thinking about the movie, about those young faces—about that ugly crying, about the way Romeo comes to Juliet on the night of their wedding, after he has killed Tybalt, and how the shelves in her bedroom are lined with her childhood dolls. I found myself longing to see the film again, and so I did. The second time, I got it. The fast cutting no longer annoyed me—once I went along with the current, the movie’s rhythms made complete sense. I realized that this was not only not a bad movie; it was one of the most beautiful film versions of Shakespeare I had ever seen. I recall friends complaining that DiCaprio and Danes had no idea what they were doing, that they had no mastery over the material. But that’s exactly the point: their Romeo + Juliet is one of pure feeling, a flame burning fast and clean. Movies are neither made nor received in a vacuum, and they have a life beyond what we can initially imagine for them. That’s why so many of today’s grownups who saw Romeo + Juliet as kids will never forget it. And that is how a play lives forever, reinvented again and again across the centuries, even as its bones and its heart remain intact. Source

Why is Leonardo DiCaprio at COP26 in Glasgow? Leonardo DiCaprio is in Glasgow for COP26 - but did you know he was a climate activist? The climate conference has seen some of the world's most influential people descend on Scotland's biggest city - including the Titanic actor. DiCaprio has been involved in climate and environmental activism for over 20-years, spanning most of his career. Here's what you need to know about why he is at Glasgow's COP26... Why is Leonardo DiCaprio at COP26 in Glasgow? Leonardo DiCaprio is somewhat of a climate change activist, having been on outspoken environmental issues throughout much of his long career. In fact, he has been discussing environmental issues before it has even reached the main public domain - he started The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation in 1998. His foundation gives money and grants to conservation projects, with the mission of protecting the Earth’s last wild places and creating solutions to build a better and more sustainable relationship between humanity and the natural world. As well as his own foundation, the award winning actor serves on the board of various climate and environmental groups, including the World Wildlife Fund, the Natural Resources Defense Council, International Fund for Animal Welfare, Pristine Seas and Oceans 5. He has also featured in various media campagns and adverts to spread the word and raise awareness of environmental issues, while his Twitter bio describes him as an "actor and environmentalist". What is Leonardo DiCaprio doing at COP26? Ahead of the climate conference in Glasgow, Leonardo DiCaprio tweeted: "The climate crisis is here. #COP26 must be a turning point to protect people and the planet. Leaders, the world is watching and urging you to rise to this moment. There’s no time to lose. #ActNow." So far, he has been spotted in Maryhill at an event at The Engine Works. He has also urged leaders "to take crucial climate action" at COP26, in order to "save humanity". In a tweet on Monday evening, the actor said: "I join @antonioguterres in urging leaders at #COP26 to take crucial #ClimateAction, safeguard our future, and save humanity. Now is the time for ambition, solidarity, and action. @UN" Source

#RJat25 spam train #not sorry What a fuck!ng intense scene. One remarkable thing about this scene was that we had locked down a very famous roundabout in the middle of Mexico City for the stunt team to get this car stunt filmed. They guaranteed they would be able to get the car wreckage to hit a certain mark and indeed, they fulfilled their promise perfectly before we had to reset to stage the rest of the sequence. Once we had the wide shots in the can in the very small amount of time that we could hold the location, we are able to shoot the true emotional moments on another day in the studio. It points out Leonardo’s incredible ability to re-find the moment, that his close up staring up into the rain actually happened several days later inside a sound stage…🎬 #RJat25 Source

A little round up from what we missed Leo related when the forum was down Here we go!!! New pic of "what a hero ❤️" Leo from Glasgow Source DLU udpate. Source via Deuxmoi cheers Leo 🍸🍾 Leonardo DiCaprio dressed as a 100-year-old man for Halloween 🎃 Leonardo DiCaprio dressed up as a 100-year-old man for Halloween — and no one recognized him at a star-studded Beverly Hills, Calif., bash, we hear. A source told us that at billionaire Nicolas Berggruen’s Halloween bash at the former Hearst estate, which he bought last month for over $63 million, the Oscar winner attended incognito with his girlfriend, Camila Morrone. Said a spy: “Leo went as a 100-year-old man in professional makeup so no one recognized him.” (Some saw the white wig and mistook the star for Andy Warhol.) Sources said that guests also included rapper Drake, rocker Beck, tech investor twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, model Alessandra Ambrosio, and international art gallerist Isabelle Bscher, among others. DiCaprio, 46, was formerly known as an incognito party fixture at George Clooney, Rande Gerber and Mike Meldman’s annual Casamigos Halloween bash. In 2016, he and buddy Tobey Maguire showed up to the party with their faces fully obscured by wolf masks. DiCaprio, of course, starred in “The Wolf of Wall Street” in 2013. The movie star and activist subsequently headed from Los Angeles to the Scottish environmental summit, COP26, over the weekend. But unlike many of the other bigwigs who arrived at the conference via private jet, we hear that DiCaprio flew commercial. He was spotted connecting flights in London. Attendees at the environmental conference also included Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Prince Albert of Monaco and others. Meanwhile, at Berggruen’s Halloween party, Drake seemed to skip a costume altogether and go as himself, we hear. Perhaps he was costumed out after hosting a dress up 35th birthday party last week for himself with a “Narcos” theme. A rep for DiCaprio did not comment. Source

DLU Update - new still of President Streep Some fans thinks that means her performance is strong enough to campaign like uhm always via Empire: As McKay tells Empire in the Spider-Man: No Way Home issue, Streep’s character is “an amalgam of all the ridiculous, ineffective Presidents that the United States has had over the past 40, 50 years.” And she’s far from the only big name in an astonishingly star-studded cast – one that features leads in Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence (an astronomer duo warning of an approaching comet), plus Jonah Hill, Mark Rylance, Tyler Perry, Timothée Chalamet, Cate Blanchett, Himesh Patel, and appearances from Ariana Grande and Scott ‘Kid Cudi’ Mescudi. It’s a stacked line-up that even McKay can’t believe. “Of course, it’s great to get tremendous actors in your movie, but I never expected it to be this many, and to this degree,” he says. “Initially I had a couple of people in mine – ‘Well, if we could get them, that would be great’ – and it just kind of kept snowballing.” Source

Love this 😍💞 25 YEARS OF ROMEO + JULIET (1996) dir. Baz Luhrmann “If love be rough with you, be rough with love.” Source

Love all of those little BTS #thx again Mr Luhrman Romantic scenes are very hard to shoot… they’re very sensitive. We were so blessed to have Claire Danes, who was not only beyond her years in terms of her acting ability, but also extremely intelligent and evolved as a young woman. Leo, who I’ve worked with several times, is also truly caring and makes everyone feel comfortable on set, particularly his partner. Two truly great talents bringing this love story to life… #RJat25 #RomeoAndJuliet

In the last image of Leonardo, you can see the choppiness of the ocean and the real wind. It’s hard to paint the picture of just how tough this scene became when a hurricane blew in… Crucially, we all had to consider whether we’d continue shooting. I distinctly remember wearing sand goggles, and how brave and strong the cast were to go out and shoot this scene. Ultimately, we really only got one master shot here that allowed us to build the rest of the scene when we picked it up later on at our re-shoots in San Francisco. If you look in the movie, it’s an uncut master shot where Romeo, lamenting the death of Mercutio, runs and gets in the car to seek revenge upon Tybalt. #RJat25 #RomeoAndJuliet Source Love this shot of Mercutio. Trivia: Did you know Christian Bale was interested to play the role of Mercutio? It's not like he couldn't handle the whole unbuttoned shirt thing lol

‘Titanic’ Remains Leonardo DiCaprio’s Best Role, 24 almost 25 Years On Twenty-two years ago, one of my favorite movies of all time was released to the world. No, I’m not talking about Mouse Hunt. No one talks about Mouse Hunt anymore. I’, talking about Titanic. Look, I know it’s fun to shit on this movie, but I have a love for it that is deep and eternal. Here’s the thing though—it was never just about Leo, for me, it was about the completely avoidable human tragedy that anyone who could do some basic math (people > lifeboats) would have seen coming. It’s a movie about love, yes, but also the inequities of class and gender, breaking free of how others define you, and also, a very solid disaster epic which is basically my favorite type of movie. Titanic is a great movie that holds up, but since a large part of its success was due to teenagers, it’s shit on. Which, you know, never happens, ever, so that’s a shock. …then there is Leo. I remember Leo-mania very well, because as a tween/teen during its heyday, he was on the cover of basically every thing. Titanic was the grand crescendo which was already in top gear because only a year before, he had starred in the criminally great (and I would argue, definitive) version of Romeo and Juliet alongside Claire Danes. Yet, Titanic holds my heart, and I believe it to be his best role. Leo built his career on the hearts of the teens and tweens who loved him. I have no doubt in my mind a large part of the success of Titanic was due to how many damn times people in my peer group saw the movie in theaters. Friends, I know I went at least three times during its original run, when I was 13. I also know my friend saw it at least five times. We were hardly an aberration in this. There’s just something about this movie that struck a chord with us. Maybe because it tapped into teenage Rose’s angst, and thus all of ours, with lines like “I feel I’m standing in the middle of a crowded room, screaming at the top of my lungs, and no one even looks up.” Leo, as Jack, was her ever faithful, love-at-first-sight boyfriend who saved her life, sexed her up but good, literally died for her, and the most magical thing he did? He f*cking listened to Rose when no one else in her life would. I mean, come on! At thirteen, you couldn’t top that (for me, at least.) Leo still can’t top that—and you will never convince me that wrestling a bear was his greatest cinematic feat. Is the movie realistic in its portrayal of Jack and Rose’s romance-on-steroids, falling in love for a lifetime over approximately three days? Well, no, but why does it have to be? Was there room on the flotsam for him? Technically yes, but he had to die because Rose had to go live her life without him so that they could be reunited at her death, at the site where they first met. Duh. (She deffo, deffo died at the end. It was not a dream, friends.) For all these reasons, and because 13-year old Katy Hudson would be horrified if I didn’t declare it so, Titanic is Leonardo DiCaprio’s best role, and will forever remain so. Source #titanic at 25

Leo coming straight for his next oscar nom 😎

Omg this sounds awesome. I'm so ready for this movie 😭 Adam McKay's ‘Don’t Look Up' Being Slowly Unveiled to Critics October 23, 2021 Jordan Ruimy Adam McKay’s “Don’t Look Up” test-screened around a dozen times this year. That is unheard of. It’s not that Netflix had doubts about the film, a political satire about global warming, no, rather the reactions at these screenings were universally positive. Audiences will probably dig “Don’t Look Up,” but will critics? McKay’s film has started screening for a select few these last few days. Critics were mostly positive on “The Big Short,” but reviews were mixed for McKay’s rather excellent Dick Cheney smackdown “Vice.” That film seemed to have the bad omen of being released during the Trump years when Cheney’s evil-doing took a backseat and all of the attention was zeroed in on the mean-tweeting 45th President. “Don’t Look Up” comes to us as the trailers and clips that have been released from Netflix were not very well-liked. It has been deemed McKay’s return to comedy. It’s the story of two low-level astronomers (played by Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio) who must go on a giant media tour to warn mankind of an approaching asteroid that will destroy Earth. A poster on the AwardsWorthy forums posted this yesterday: “This just screened to a group of critics here and... I wasn't ready for this but... They're raving it like crazy. Like, they're thinking this will get around 10 nods and win many of them. It has much more VFX than I expected. The original song is not an end-titles one but marks one of the funniest scenes, Streep can win her 4th, Original Screenplay win may be a lock, SAG Ensemble is in the bag, this is Leo's best ever, the film's insanely funny kinda raving I'm talking about. I don't know what to think right now.” “Don’t Look Up” is set to premiere on Netflix December 10th, 2021. Source

Who is creating those stories? Leonardo DiCaprio tricks his girlfriends into thinking he’ll marry them but he won’t: Rumor Leonardo DiCaprio, allegedly, tricks his girlfriends into thinking that he’s so committed to them to the point that they will eventually get engaged. According to National Enquirer, most often than not, Leonardo DiCaprio just lures his girlfriends into dating him, but that’s about it. After years of being together, the relationship with just ended without an engagement. “Leo sniffs beauties who are half his age, but once he gets in a relationship, years go by and they realize they’re no closer to a wedding than the day they started dating,” the source said. Toni Garrn thrilled she’s no longer with Leonardo DiCaprio The insider also claimed that DiCaprio’s ex-girlfriend, Toni Garrn couldn’t be happier that they are no longer together. “Toni realized Leo is every woman’s worst nightmare. As he ages, the girls he chases get younger and younger. Toni jumped ship before she became another of Leo’s Peter Pan dating casualties,” the source said. Camila Morrone waiting for Leonardo DiCaprio to propose This isn’t the only rumor surrounding DiCaprio. This week, OK! magazine claimed that DiCaprio put his girlfriend of four years in the same position. After all, Camila Morrone has, allegedly, been hoping to get an engagement ring from DiCaprio. Unfortunately, it seems the actor has no plans to get down on one knee just yet. “She’s patiently waiting for some show of commitment from Leo, but he’s not even trying to act like a guy who’s in a serious relationship. It’s a dilemma because they’ve been together almost four years, and Leo’s famously known to get bored with his girlfriends at this stage. Fact is, he’s not the kind to stay at home when he has the chance to let loose!” the source said. Rumors debunked However, one should take the tabloid’s claims with a grain of salt. *It is unclear where DiCaprio got such a bad reputation when it comes to his dating life. But it’s possible that these claims are coming from the fact that he hasn’t tied the knot. But it is important to note that this is the actor’s personal choice, and everyone around Leonardo DiCaprio should learn to accept it. Source *I wonder that too. 🤔 But 💯 to this last statement!

Tennis player Dominic Thiem never heard of him thinks Leo is a great role model for all of us. Do you have certain role models? Leonardo DiCaprio. That would be one of the people I would absolutely want to meet. Because of environmental protection and how he is committed to it. I love the way he uses his popularity to do good things. That should actually be a role model for everyone. Source Better quality: Source

I'm dying #RJ at 25 💘💖 The Pool Scene❤️‍🔥🗡 When we arrived at the pool being the ‘obstacle’ between the young lovers, we then had a long and interesting shooting process ahead. I shuffled in my drawer and found these pictures and a BTS video I’ll share soon too💦 Here’s a few Easter eggs… based on the pool from a historical mansion in Miami (Google Vizcaya if you haven’t already!), this pool set was actually built in the same sound stage as Juliet’s bedroom and the fish tank set🐠 big THX to Mr Baz Luhrman for sharing those lovely BTS

New project: Kate Winslet Joined By Marion Cotillard, Jude Law, Andrea Riseborough & Josh O’Connor For Film On Model-Turned-WWII Photographer Lee Miller

Interesting, kinda sad and terrifying via goldderby: Apparently Netflix held a screening for this in New York, and again the response was positive (I saw someone saying this on twitter).

Never realized. SPOILER ALERT!!!! In The Departed (2006) there is an ‘X’ present in the background of every main character death scene. Source