For people who haven't seen Don's Plum I will upload it on megavideo.com but that will take at least 13 hours.

Saw who I sincerely believe was LEONARDO DICAPRIO (i think a little new weight threw me off) sitting with beautiful woman (girlfriend?) and parental units enjoying a meal and quiet conversation at Local restaurant in Silver Lake.

http://defamer.com/5127432/hollywood-priva...onardo-dicaprio

i don't think it was Leo ( shellers24 : do you know this site? )

I don't know maybe it was a person who hasn't seen him in a long time.

i think defamer is not a reliable source so i think it's false , It's easy to say that he was seen somewhere when there are no pics

and everybody can send sightings :

Saw who I sincerely believe was LEONARDO DICAPRIO (i think a little new weight threw me off) sitting with beautiful woman (girlfriend?) and parental units enjoying a meal and quiet conversation at Local restaurant in Silver Lake. [Hollywood PrivacyWatch is written by and for Defamer readers; send your sightings to [email protected].]

Saw who I sincerely believe was LEONARDO DICAPRIO (i think a little new weight threw me off) sitting with beautiful woman (girlfriend?) and parental units enjoying a meal and quiet conversation at Local restaurant in Silver Lake.

http://defamer.com/5127432/hollywood-priva...onardo-dicaprio

i don't think it was Leo ( shellers24 : do you know this site? )

I don't know maybe it was a person who hasn't seen him in a long time.

i think defamer is not a reliable source so i think it's false , It's easy to say that he was seen somewhere when there are no pics

and everybody can send sightings :

Saw who I sincerely believe was LEONARDO DICAPRIO (i think a little new weight threw me off) sitting with beautiful woman (girlfriend?) and parental units enjoying a meal and quiet conversation at Local restaurant in Silver Lake. [Hollywood PrivacyWatch is written by and for Defamer readers; send your sightings to [email protected].]

maybe because Leo is not fat right?

For people who haven't seen Don's Plum I will upload it on megavideo.com but that will take at least 13 hours.

Theres something wrong and it doesn't want to upload so i'm sorry. I will try tomorrow.

Saw who I sincerely believe was LEONARDO DICAPRIO (i think a little new weight threw me off) sitting with beautiful woman (girlfriend?) and parental units enjoying a meal and quiet conversation at Local restaurant in Silver Lake.

http://defamer.com/5127432/hollywood-priva...onardo-dicaprio

i don't think it was Leo ( shellers24 : do you know this site? )

I don't know maybe it was a person who hasn't seen him in a long time.

i think defamer is not a reliable source so i think it's false , It's easy to say that he was seen somewhere when there are no pics

and everybody can send sightings :

Saw who I sincerely believe was LEONARDO DICAPRIO (i think a little new weight threw me off) sitting with beautiful woman (girlfriend?) and parental units enjoying a meal and quiet conversation at Local restaurant in Silver Lake. [Hollywood PrivacyWatch is written by and for Defamer readers; send your sightings to [email protected].]

maybe because Leo is not fat right?

yes Leo is not fat

For people who haven't seen Don's Plum I will upload it on megavideo.com but that will take at least 13 hours.

Theres something wrong and it doesn't want to upload so i'm sorry. I will try tomorrow.

I believe that Don's plum is on youtube

For people who haven't seen Don's Plum I will upload it on megavideo.com but that will take at least 13 hours.

Theres something wrong and it doesn't want to upload so i'm sorry. I will try tomorrow.

I believe that Don's plum is on youtube

It was but it got deleted.

THE white picket fence lifestyle looks "bleak" for former shipboard lovers Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, writes Laurie Masterson.

THEY used to be the world's hottest couple - their passionate affair followed by millions around the world.

He was the self-proclaimed "king of the world'' and she was his queen.

These days they're trapped in the suburbs. He's in a dead-end job and having a fling with a secretary, she's stuck at home with the two kids.

Or at least that's the way it's gone for Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in the two movies in which they have co-starred - Titanic, still the all-time box office champ 12 years later, and Revolutionary Road, the new movie that reunites them and earned each a Golden Globe Award nomination.

If success has to be "lived down'', DiCaprio, 34, and Winslet, 33, had a big job in front of them after their Titanic affair came to a soggy end, having banked an unprecedented $2.5 billion worldwide.

DiCaprio is one of the smartest, not to mention wealthiest, young actors around, having played roles in a string of decorated movies such as Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator ('04) and The Departed ('06).

The boy in Titanic has become "the man'' in Hollywood.

London-based Winslet, now a mother of two and married to Revolutionary Road director Sam Mendes, her second husband, remains a daring, unflinching performer who has racked up career highlights including Iris (2001), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ('04), Finding Neverland ('04) and Little Children ('06).

And she and DiCaprio have remained friends.

"The truth is we've been very, very busy people,'' DiCaprio says.

"She's been off on multiple locations, as have I, this entire time since Titanic.

"There were periods where we didn't see each other for over a year or whatever . . . but doing that movie, we had forged a bond at a very young age.

"We have those friends . . . you might not see for tremendous amounts of time, but the second you see them you're completely comfortable and you're the same people that you were when you initially met.

"There's no need to sort of work on anything. It's just there. It is what it is.

"We became very much like brother and sister.''

That relationship must have made it all the more awkward for DiCaprio and Winslet to be thrown together in intimate scenes again, especially with Mendes standing behind the camera.

"There were slightly uncomfortable moments here and there,'' DiCaprio says with a wry smile.

"But I have to be honest - it wasn't that weird.

"Sam set up an environment for us where he really kind of backed away and let us be our own little couple on set, in the sense that he would let us wander off and gossip together and talk in between takes.

"For me it was really comfortable, anyway. I mean, Kate might have a different opinion, but that was my experience.

"And at the end of the day, of course they are married and they went home together and discussed the movie in their own little world.''

Revolutionary Road is based on a novel by Richard Yates, published in 1961.

Outwardly, Frank and April Wheeler are a model couple. In the hopeful 1950s, with the memories of World War II subsiding and the US taking tentative steps towards the computer age, they have moved from Manhattan into the suburbs of Connecticut to raise their children, Jennifer and Michael.

Frank takes the train each day to his job shuffling papers at Knox Business Machines.

It is all so ordinary, but Frank and April have always lived under the assumption that something great is just around the corner.

They are certainly not going to find it in their neat house on Revolutionary Road.

Mendes, who won an Academy Award for his debut film American Beauty (1999), set the mood for Revolutionary Road by shooting many scenes inside a house in Connecticut.

"Sam very much wanted to create a dynamic in which we felt claustrophobic in the house,'' DiCaprio says.

"It was a small crew and we were crammed in together and it felt like people were being intrusive in our home in a way.

"So it was many months in this house and there was no escaping the environment. I think it fed into the performances.

"It is one of the most highly dramatic pieces, almost like a piece of theatre, I've ever done. We were dealing with the highly emotional sequences, pretty traumatic, hardcore, marital issues.''

DiCaprio, who has been dating Israeli model Bar Rafaeli for the past two years, rarely talks about his private life, but says that though he believes in marriage, he would not use the Wheelers as role models.

"On a personal level, I just hope this kind of situation would never happen to me because it's all dark stuff,'' he says.

"The film is a very bleak, stark look at the subject matter. Much of it can, on one surface level, be looked at as (the story of) an age in American history.

"I mean, we're talking the post-Industrial Revolution, when the United States was really sort of forming its moral high ground and, in a lot of ways, that idyllic family image with the white picket fence, the man providing for his wife, the wife staying home.

"All of that was sort of born in that era and in a lot of ways that iconic image of what the family should be is still held to this day.

"But here we have two people from different backgrounds who are desperately trying not to become cliches.

I think no one will discount the fact that it is a very pessimistic look at a relationship, because as much as it is a product of that time period, it is fundamentally about two people who were destined, I think, to be apart.

"To me, these are very selfish characters.''

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,2...02-2902,00.html

THE white picket fence lifestyle looks "bleak" for former shipboard lovers Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, writes Laurie Masterson.

THEY used to be the world's hottest couple - their passionate affair followed by millions around the world.

He was the self-proclaimed "king of the world'' and she was his queen.

These days they're trapped in the suburbs. He's in a dead-end job and having a fling with a secretary, she's stuck at home with the two kids.

Or at least that's the way it's gone for Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in the two movies in which they have co-starred - Titanic, still the all-time box office champ 12 years later, and Revolutionary Road, the new movie that reunites them and earned each a Golden Globe Award nomination.

If success has to be "lived down'', DiCaprio, 34, and Winslet, 33, had a big job in front of them after their Titanic affair came to a soggy end, having banked an unprecedented $2.5 billion worldwide.

DiCaprio is one of the smartest, not to mention wealthiest, young actors around, having played roles in a string of decorated movies such as Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator ('04) and The Departed ('06).

The boy in Titanic has become "the man'' in Hollywood.

London-based Winslet, now a mother of two and married to Revolutionary Road director Sam Mendes, her second husband, remains a daring, unflinching performer who has racked up career highlights including Iris (2001), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ('04), Finding Neverland ('04) and Little Children ('06).

And she and DiCaprio have remained friends.

"The truth is we've been very, very busy people,'' DiCaprio says.

"She's been off on multiple locations, as have I, this entire time since Titanic.

"There were periods where we didn't see each other for over a year or whatever . . . but doing that movie, we had forged a bond at a very young age.

"We have those friends . . . you might not see for tremendous amounts of time, but the second you see them you're completely comfortable and you're the same people that you were when you initially met.

"There's no need to sort of work on anything. It's just there. It is what it is.

"We became very much like brother and sister.''

That relationship must have made it all the more awkward for DiCaprio and Winslet to be thrown together in intimate scenes again, especially with Mendes standing behind the camera.

"There were slightly uncomfortable moments here and there,'' DiCaprio says with a wry smile.

"But I have to be honest - it wasn't that weird.

"Sam set up an environment for us where he really kind of backed away and let us be our own little couple on set, in the sense that he would let us wander off and gossip together and talk in between takes.

"For me it was really comfortable, anyway. I mean, Kate might have a different opinion, but that was my experience.

"And at the end of the day, of course they are married and they went home together and discussed the movie in their own little world.''

Revolutionary Road is based on a novel by Richard Yates, published in 1961.

Outwardly, Frank and April Wheeler are a model couple. In the hopeful 1950s, with the memories of World War II subsiding and the US taking tentative steps towards the computer age, they have moved from Manhattan into the suburbs of Connecticut to raise their children, Jennifer and Michael.

Frank takes the train each day to his job shuffling papers at Knox Business Machines.

It is all so ordinary, but Frank and April have always lived under the assumption that something great is just around the corner.

They are certainly not going to find it in their neat house on Revolutionary Road.

Mendes, who won an Academy Award for his debut film American Beauty (1999), set the mood for Revolutionary Road by shooting many scenes inside a house in Connecticut.

"Sam very much wanted to create a dynamic in which we felt claustrophobic in the house,'' DiCaprio says.

"It was a small crew and we were crammed in together and it felt like people were being intrusive in our home in a way.

"So it was many months in this house and there was no escaping the environment. I think it fed into the performances.

"It is one of the most highly dramatic pieces, almost like a piece of theatre, I've ever done. We were dealing with the highly emotional sequences, pretty traumatic, hardcore, marital issues.''

DiCaprio, who has been dating Israeli model Bar Rafaeli for the past two years, rarely talks about his private life, but says that though he believes in marriage, he would not use the Wheelers as role models.

"On a personal level, I just hope this kind of situation would never happen to me because it's all dark stuff,'' he says.

"The film is a very bleak, stark look at the subject matter. Much of it can, on one surface level, be looked at as (the story of) an age in American history.

"I mean, we're talking the post-Industrial Revolution, when the United States was really sort of forming its moral high ground and, in a lot of ways, that idyllic family image with the white picket fence, the man providing for his wife, the wife staying home.

"All of that was sort of born in that era and in a lot of ways that iconic image of what the family should be is still held to this day.

"But here we have two people from different backgrounds who are desperately trying not to become cliches.

I think no one will discount the fact that it is a very pessimistic look at a relationship, because as much as it is a product of that time period, it is fundamentally about two people who were destined, I think, to be apart.

"To me, these are very selfish characters.''

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,2...02-2902,00.html

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Leonardo DiCaprio, Hollywood outsider

Leonardo DiCaprio’s childhood was spent in a drug-infested neighbourhood in LA, raised by hippie parents. So why, after becoming Hollywood’s blue-eyed boy, does he still feel like an outsider?

”I feel like a whole era in my life is over,” says Leonardo DiCaprio. The 34-year-old is sweating at a table on a small patio under a flowering tree in Bel Air, Los Angeles, in baggy jeans, running shoes, a blue polo shirt and a blue baseball cap. He may be one of the world’s biggest box-office attractions, earning at least $20m a picture, but on this day, the 6ft 1in, lanky, blue-eyed movie star is unhappy and tired and stressed. “My grandmother died,” he says. “Oma” is Leonardo’s pet name for his late maternal grandmother, Helene Idenbirken, who died in Oer-Erkenschwick, Germany. “She was 93,” he adds. “She lived a long, great life.” They had been extraordinarily close, and she was an immense influence. As a boy he visited her at home in Germany each summer. He feels bereft and self-protective, which may be why, later, when he goes out to his car, he puts on aviator sunglasses and pulls the peak of his baseball cap down over his face. “It’s my anti-paparazzi repellent.” He is in no mood for tabloid cameras.

“I loved being with Oma at all times,” he continues. “She was completely pure and honest. She was so unlike anything else. She was my barometer of truth. I always brought Oma around to meet people, just to hear her immediate take on them. She was so unaffected. She’d give me her opinion, no matter what was going on, especially in outrageous situations, a premiere in Rome or a movie set. I’d take a step back and say, ‘Yeah, I’ve heard a lot of other things about how I am supposed to feel about this, but you’re right on, Oma.’ And she was.”

In many ways, Leonardo is haunted by the childhood stories she used to tell him of his family’s suffering as refugees during the second world war, — tales of conflict, oppression and human extinction. Those stories shaped his imagination, as did lessons taught to him by his father, a veteran of the American peace movement. While Leonardo is far too young to have experienced the war, or even the Vietnam years and his father’s counterculture of the 1960s, he is very much their child, possessed by their dreams of a perfect world.

This aspect of Leonardo’s consciousness — another generation’s grief and dreams snared on his mind — was clear when we had our first long conversation in New York nearly five years ago, and it has become more emphatic as he has grown older and become more involved in the world beyond the movie business. “Sometimes I’d ask Oma, ‘Isn’t it great now, all this stuff happening in my life?’ ” Leonardo recalls. “And she’d say, ‘Don’t you worry about that. Take a break. Be a bricklayer. Work with your hands. You’ll love it. Step back and reflect on what’s going on in your life. Appreciate it.’ ”

Leonardo DiCaprio was born in 1974 in Los Angeles, where his parents settled in a derelict part of town. His father is George DiCaprio, 65, a sometime comic-book trader and self-defined radical and rebel. Irmelin, 63, Leonardo’s mum, is a German immigrant who worked as a legal secretary. “My mother was born in a bomb shelter in Germany,” Leonardo informs me. “Her father was a coal miner who didn’t believe in the Nazi regime and was sent off to war for trying to feed Russian slaves in the mines. After he came back, her family tried to flee Nazi Germany. Their determination to survive is amazing.

“My mother, then a toddler, emaciated and thin, got lost on some train tracks for two weeks. From three to six years of age, she was in hospital. Eventually her family got to New York, to the harshest part of the Bronx. They struggled every day.”

Leonardo’s parents met as students at New York’s City College. They fell in love and married and soon moved west to LA in search of a better life. When Leonardo was seven, they separated. George stayed on in the downmarket Echo Park district and continued to help raise his son. He took a second wife, Peggy, a previously married professional body builder. With her came a stepson, Adam Farrar. Timothy Leary, the late psychedelic drug guru, presided at George and Peggy’s marriage.

“My dad’s still a diehard left-wing hippie with long freak hair and a beard,” he says, “and will be until the day he dies. He’s the smartest man I know. I talk to him before any decisions are made. When I was younger my dad introduced me to artists and art forms, and every few months we’d go to some hippie parade dressed up as mudmen in our underwear, carrying sticks and lathered in mud.”

Leonardo’s mother enrolled him in selective schools that catered to gifted children. Every day she drove him for four hours to attend classes at the University Elementary School at the University of California, Los Angeles, and, later, the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies. When he was in school, he was safe. But back in the hellhole where he lived, he wasn’t.

“I grew up in a drug-infested neighbourhood,” he explains. “It was really crazy. My mom and I lived in one of the seediest places on Earth. That’s where we lived for my first eight years. Then we moved to Echo Park — the central area for crack cocaine, heroin and prostitution. Down the block was a waterbed hotel. I saw people have sex in the alleys. I remember, at five years old, having this guy with a trench coat, needles and crack, corner me. I’d see pushers peddling drugs, and prostitutes on drugs. It was pretty terrifying. There were rough kids. I got beat up a lot.”

Although the area was swamped with drug dealers and junkies, somehow he never got hooked. I ask how he’d managed to avoid using drugs when narcotics were all around him — not just as a boy but also as a young actor in the Hollywood movie industry. “I knew drugs were bad, even as a little kid,” he replies. “Seeing the effects that drugs had on my block, seeing heroin addicts, it made me think twice about ever getting involved in drugs. I was so horrified by what I saw drugs do to people that I never wanted anything to do with them. It’s evil. Once you take that step and experiment, drugs take over your life. You are not yourself any more. That’s something I never wanted. Then, when I was a young actor, I saw other actors die of drugs. I watched what happened to River Phoenix, who was such an influence on me as a young actor.” River Phoenix died of a drugs overdose at 23, on the pavement outside the Viper Room nightclub in West Hollywood. “Now Heath Ledger has died young. It is such a horrifying thought to know that those guys aren’t around any more. Every person has demons. We all have horrible fears and insecurities that we need to overcome.”

Where do his fears and insecurities come from?

“Mine? From never feeling accepted by any groups,” he answers, “from never being received. I never had a lot of friends growing up. It was kind of just me and my parents.” Scrawny and small for his age, Leonardo was a bright, lively boy who loved to tweak adult pretentiousness and deflate bullies — he still does. At school, he enjoyed history and drama class, was poor at mathematics, hated taking tests.

He has a sharp, inquisitive mind, and his sense of humour is quick and self-deprecating. He likes to probe and tease. He is still boyish in his playfulness. He relishes debate, like someone who knows a lot and misses having occasions to prove it. There is an itchy restlessness to him, a searching for elusive answers to necessary questions, and an eagerness to learn what he does not know. He is a natural mimic to boot.

“I loved doing imitations of my parents’ very bizarre friends,” he says. “I loved the attention I’d get. In school I was the class clown, about a foot shorter than anyone else, always jumping up and getting laughs, a little smartass with a big mouth. School was like this wild safari where I could try to make a name for myself… but it never really worked. They just basically looked at you as the class clown and dismissed you. I never belonged.”

As a boy Leonardo wanted to be a biologist, an oceanographer or a travel agent — jobs that might let him see the world. His parents wanted him to be a pianist.

“One day I started sobbing at the piano, ‘I can’t do this any more!’ he recalls, laughing. “That was the end of my piano lessons.” He embraced acting after learning that his step-brother, Adam Farrar, had earned money appearing in a TV commercial. “I never realised acting was a possibility. I thought it was a secret club only the privileged few were part of. I thought that maybe I could get a commercial here or there, but to have a career as an actor? Forget it. I really thought I’d end up becoming a marine biologist, because nature and evolution always fascinated me.”

His parents, and Leonardo himself, may not have suspected that he would become an actor, but his grandmother Oma certainly did. Leonardo says that in 2003, while visiting his grandmother in Germany, she told him that he had always been an actor, from the time he was born. “ ‘You were always this way,’ Oma said to me. She told me that my grandparents couldn’t even watch TV because I’d be dancing in front of the television set, doing crazy imitations of them. Oma said to me, ‘We should have known then, because all someone ever needed to do was just put a camera on you!’

“Why did I want to be an actor?” he asks, rhetorically. “Being an actor comes 100% from the need to be loved and accepted by your peers and the people who are around you all the time. Any actor who says this isn’t true is lying.”

Leonardo DiCaprio began his show-business career as a child model, appearing in more than 30 commercials. Children’s educational films followed — Mickey’s Safety Club, How to Deal with a Parent Who Takes Drugs — then roles on American prime-time TV situation comedies, notably Parenthood. At 16 he landed a role on the top-rated TV series Growing Pains. He quit high school, and with his TV pay he bought his mother a house. His big break was in 1992 when Robert De Niro chose him over hundreds of other young actors for a leading role as his son in This Boy’s Life.

Leonardo’s performance as a boy hiding his emotional vulnerability under a veneer of teenage bravado won wide critical praise. “This Boy’s Life is the only movie I still get teary-eyed watching, because it was so much about me growing up. I give the director, Michael Caton-Jones, all the credit. I’d come in through the world of commercials and television, where your personality is what matters. Michael taught me how to create a character. He taught me how serious film-making really is.

“Michael was a mentor,” he goes on. “He took me in like a little brother. He guided me into the code of ethics one has to have, the sanctity of the set, the commitment you need, the thought you have to give to everything — lines, gestures, movements. I thought every director was going to be like Michael, a big brother, someone who’ll tell me what to do. Now I realise that the great directors don’t want to do that. They want you to bring something to the table.”

Leonardo followed the critical success of This Boy’s Life with his first Oscar-nominated performance, as Johnny Depp’s retarded brother in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? He was 18 and well on his way to stardom. Then he took a detour. Instead of doing likable roles in mainstream studio pictures, he chose a riskier path. He accepted leading parts in two small films, both released in 1995, that most young movie stars then wouldn’t be caught dead in — The Basketball Diaries and Total Eclipse.

Basketball Diaries saw Leonardo cast as a high-school athlete who descends into a nightmare of drug addiction and male prostitution. Total Eclipse presented him another kind of dissolute gay teenager, the great 19th-century French poet Arthur Rimbaud, and his obsessive sexual affair with the French poet Paul Verlaine. In 1995, a good decade before Brokeback Mountain, on-screen homosexuality, coupled to rampant drug use and male nudity, was considered certain career death. Leonardo gave astonishing performances in both films, indifferent to any negative effect they might have on his career. Any hostile reception the movies may have received was quickly forgotten when Romeo + Juliet opened a year later. His doomed teen heart-throb, opposite Claire Danes, secured his stardom.

“The sole reason I did Rimbaud was because I had started to read his poetry,” he says. Leonardo loves to talk, and often his words come out in a rush, as if his speech is chasing his thoughts. “Rimbaud was only a boy then, who ran away from home and created himself. He had the genius and the balls to make a name for himself. He was a radical and a rebel, and during that early period in his life his genius flashed. Then one day, in his early twenties, he just stopped writing poems. He just said, ‘This is not what I wanted to be,’ and went off to Africa to do something else.

“I think cinema is the greatest modern art form,” Leonardo declares, shifting gear. “No painting makes me want to stare at it for two hours or gives me an experience that a movie does. The quote that will be instilled in me for ever is, ‘Pain is temporary; film is for ever.’ It means that whatever you’re going through in your personal life, you have to channel it into what you are doing. If you don’t hit that moment in film, if you don’t go where you need to go, you’ll never get another chance to burn it into the public world for ever on film.

“When I read a script, I look for truth about humanity in the story line. That’s what I respond to. Fundamentally truthful characters, and a script that says something pertinent and honest about the world we live in.”

By far Leonardo’s favourite director is Martin Scorsese, a friend with whom he did three epic movies: Gangs of New York, The Aviator and The Departed. But he’s best known as Kate Winslet’s stowaway lover in Titanic — his greatest box-office success, earning well over a billion dollars, a movie so vastly popular as to be comparable only to Gone with the Wind in its indelible imprint on its audience.

Leonardo’s new film, Revolutionary Road, also co-stars Winslet. The story of a middle-class couple, anxious and bored silly, trapped in a soul-killing suburban life and a marriage rapidly heading south, it is directed by Kate Winslet’s husband, the director Sam Mendes. When I suggest to Leonardo that Revolutionary Road is a cautionary tale about what would have happened if he and Kate Winslet’s character had survived the sinking of the Titanic, he laughs. “Oh, my God, you’re probably right!

It’s about the aftermath of a pure love that went sour, the systematic disintegration of a couple, self-loathing, self-destructing.

“Titanic was a period of rebellion for me,” he recalls. “I was portrayed as the world’s No 1 poster boy, a heart-throb. It wasn’t what I wanted to be at 24.” The movie engendered a media frenzy that frightened Leonardo and baffles him to this day. “The press, the scumbag paparazzi, the tabloid ridiculousness, it was like a f***ing runaway train!” he says. “This thing just took off! I didn’t understand what was happening. I was fighting tooth and nail to have nothing to do with the publicity spree that went on. It put a bad taste in my mouth. I couldn’t handle it. I got sick of seeing myself! My instinctive reaction was to want to run away.”

The sudden international celebrity overwhelmed him, bringing with it self-doubt. He felt like a commodity. For two years he stayed away from the movies, trying to ignore the media circus. “When that giant wave hit me, I could not deal with it. It was never the recognition I wanted. The whole experience was so shallow and empty. That’s why I took a break. I was conscious that I needed to do something different.” He used his time away from the movie business to think. “I remembered the innocence of youth. At the end of the day, some of the rawest, most genuine experiences and happiest times I had ever known were when I had nothing.” Leonardo decided to help repair the world. “I know there’s this idea people have that I’m this spoilt, cocky punk of an actor. Honestly, that’s not who I am. I really care that so many species have been wiped out. I decided I want to be an active environmentalist. I learnt about it. I asked experts.” Then he created a website and made short films about global warming. He funds advocacy organisations and bankrolls a personal charitable foundation supporting environmental causes. He lobbies politicians and speaks out publicly. He backed Barack Obama for president.

“My whole effort,” he says, “is to get attention paid to the ecology of our planet. It is so much more important than anything. Whatever problems we have as individual human beings, the cost we’ll pay in destroying irreplaceable ecosystems is insurmountably greater. I hope I never get cynical about what can be done — because the more cynical you become, the more you sit on your ass and do nothing.” Leo is anything but cynical. “I really believe we can create an efficient world,” he goes on, like a street preacher. “We can feed all the starving people on the Earth, take care of the sick, and sustain the planet we’ve inherited! And live in peace. We can!” He glows with optimism. “Believe me, all these things are possible. And if it happens, won’t it be amazing? Stopping the destruction of our planet? Protecting its ecosystems, its irreplaceable biodiversity, its sheer beauty? I get overwhelmed talking about it!”

Leonardo DiCaprio has lost the cuddly-little-boy good looks that won him millions of teenage hearts. Not long ago it was youthful beauty that dominated a room. Now it is his imposing masculinity and easy charm. Over the years Leonardo has had romantic relationships with a series of exceedingly beautiful women, including the Brazilian model Gisele Bundchen. His intense, turbulent affair with Bundchen lasted the longest, nearly five years. They split up in November 2005. The tabloid press had been full of speculation that they would marry.

“Marriage is an establishment I respect but I don’t necessarily believe in at this point,” he said at the time. “I know happiness has to do with finding a partner and family in this world. But I am not going to risk ruining that ideal by being one of those people who rushes into marriage for a false sense of security.” Reportedly, Leonardo is currently involved with a stunning Israeli model, Bar Rafaeli, 23. They have been a couple, on and off, for two years. She is said to be involved in planning the completion of his unfinished New York flat, purchased in a new “green” apartment tower in downtown Manhattan. He intends to live in New York as well as Los Angeles. “I have a real attachment to New York,” he says. “The building is right on the water. There’s parkland and street lamps along the river that remind me of Europe.”

In the past Leonardo has refused to discuss his romantic relationships, explaining that he has “few emotions”, has “never been in love” and does “not believe in marriage”. I remind him of some of the things he said to me about love and marriage. I ask if he still believes they are true? “No,” he replies. “It sounds like the ignorance of youth to me. When did I say that? Three or four years ago? Hey, we grow up real fast. We should just erase those quotes from the stratosphere.

“It’s always hard to talk about this stuff,” he adds. “I want to keep some of this for myself. When we talk about ourselves, we know the bad parts, too. There’s that side of you that says, ‘Time to get over the hurt and move on.’ It’s hard to do. So you hang on to the emotion that this one didn’t love me, or why didn’t that relationship last? That stuff can stay with you for ever. You want to say, ‘Get over yourself! Time to grow up!’ Some people can do that, but a lot of us remain victims of it. Just last night I was thinking how little of my life has been lived normally and not spent on some far-off movie location. I absolutely believe in marriage. In saying that, I realise I am contradicting everything I’ve said before. Yes, I want to get married and have children.”

He stands and puts on his sunglasses, and adjusts his baseball cap. “I hope I never get cynical. What I want is to be known as someone who stood for something”

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