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WOW, I never realized how cute Tobey and Jen are together. Who is the female standing with her arms crossed? I have never seen her before. Not long, until Gatsby is shown in Australia. I'm so excited :heart:

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Last Night on Late Night: A Tobey Maguire - Leonardo DiCaprio Giggle Attack Delayed the Great Gatsby Shoot

Last night on The Late Show, Tobey Maguire revealed that he was overcome by an attack of the giggles during the filming of a particularly serious scene in The Great Gatsby. His BFF Leonardo DiCaprio (you can catch a glimpse of their childhood photo in the video) "goes up a couple of steps, and turns around really serious towards me, and says this stern thing, and I just started breaking up laughing." Not only did the 15-second scene extend into a half-day shoot, but director Baz Luhrmann also ended up having to film them independently.

A video can be found at http://www.vulture.com/2013/05/bffs-maguire-dicaprio-giggle-attack-in-gatsby.html

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Tobey Maguire: 'I always knew I'd be successful'

A few days before I meet Tobey Maguire, there is a minor flap in the pages of the New York Times about the movie he's about to appear in. Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby is designed to be "relevant for a new generation", say its producers, causing pain to a few in a previous one: an obliging bookseller avers that anyone caught reading the movie tie-in version of Gatsby (with Maguire, Carey Mulligan and Leonardo DiCaprio on the cover) should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves.

Maguire hadn't read the novel before Luhrmann approached him for the part of Nick Carraway, and takes the view that, "like with Shakespeare", everyone should relax and allow for multiple interpretations. "Do whatever you want. Make a cubist version; break it apart, deconstruct it. Whatever way you see it, it's art: you can do anything." He says this slowly, with the wry, slightly hoarse delivery that lends itself to creaky voiceovers and coming-of-age revelations: The Cider House Rules, Wonder Boys, The Ice Storm and now, saying some of the most famous lines ever written, Gatsby.

So what did he think? "I haven't read a lot of great novels and I look forward to reading the ones that I get myself to," he says. "So, er, I don't know. I get that it's held in very high regard and cited often as the greatest American novel, and people call Nick Carraway one of the greatest narrators and all that, and I appreciate that. But at the same time…" He bursts out laughing. Maguire clearly felt under no particular pressure to have a profound reaction. "I'm just a guy reading a book."

Carraway is the still eye of the picture, and to that end Maguire is perfectly cast. In interviews at least, he has been known to be still to the point of aggression: in publicity for Spider-Man, he stuck to an impressive range of one-word answers in response to almost any question asked of him. "I have some preciousness tendencies," he says, smiling. "But ultimately I want to be productive, so I try not to let that stand in my way."

This version of Gatsby will divide people. The aim, producers said, was to create a party "that kids wanted to come to", and so Jay-Z is an executive producer and the soundtrack is full of Beyoncé, Lana Del Rey and Jack White. Maguire is very good as Carraway, with that affable, principled, mildly diffident air he has come to specialise in. It's a tricky role to pull off since, as Maguire says, "Nick is an observer, so he is watching a lot of this happen. If you just filmed it, Nick wouldn't be doing much. And so my thing was: how do we dramatise Nick's experience? How do we make him active? And so that burst out the sanatorium idea."

In this particular version, Carraway is telling the story to a psychiatrist, in a rehab clinic long after the events, and reflecting on his friendship with Gatsby. Maguire's own friendship with DiCaprio lends a certain authenticity to their exchanges. The two men go back a long way, having met as teenagers at auditions in the 1990s, most of which DiCaprio won at Maguire's expense, although Maguire sometimes landed a smaller part (in This Boy's Life, for instance). Later, DiCaprio would recommend his friend for parts when he could. They must, over the years, have measured themselves against each other and now, Maguire says, "Our lives are very different." At 37, Maguire is married (to jewellery designer Jennifer Meyer, whose dad, Ronald, runs Universal Studios), with two children, Ruby and Otis. DiCaprio, 38, is still dating models.

"We're both really competitive people," Maguire says. "I think we have a lot of confidence in our own individual paths, so whether it's with each other, or other friends of ours, we root for them. We're fans of our greatest competitors. We can joke with each other about competition, but are supportive. I have a whole bunch of friends like that. I'm glad that's the culture of my group."

This would sound gilded – and I'm sure there have been times when Maguire, coming up in DiCaprio's shadow, wondered if he would ever shake the guy off – but you believe him on the subject of solidarity. Carey Mulligan, who plays Daisy Buchanan in the film, first crossed Maguire's radar before she was famous; she had "self-taped an audition for the film Brothers", he says, which Jim Sheridan was making with Maguire in the lead. Natalie Portman was the heroine, and Mulligan had a small supporting role. This was before An Education came out and, "She was just thrilled to sit at the motel by the side of the freeway for six weeks to do her couple of days." When they parted, Maguire told her, "'I'll be looking out for you.' Which was just meant as encouragement, but she reminded me of it the other day. And when a friend of mine was making a film called The Greatest, I said, 'Carey is terrific and will be really reliable for you.' People did that for me coming up."

Maguire seems at home in The Great Gatsby, and in the role he inhabits. He knows what it is to be on the outside, perhaps. He had a peripatetic childhood. His parents were 18 and 19 years old when they had him, and he moved around various towns in California while growing up. Resources were scarce, and by the end of his teens he had a drink and drugs problem. He understands intuitively that the class system in the US is inflexible, despite protestations by politicians to the contrary. "The idea is that equal opportunity and social mobility in this country are as easy as pie. But [my sense is that] people jumping classes socially is at a low point. And it's not just what opportunities there are; it's what the attitudes are – it's about your ability to imagine a different future for yourself, and I think that's more difficult to do now."

It's partly a question of logistics, he says. He recalls from his own childhood that when you're spending all your energy just trying to get by, you have nothing left over with which to conceive of a future. "It's about having your brain space occupied by worrying about what I'm going to eat or how I'm going to pay rent, which is something I have contended with in life. Once you're not having to worry about that on a day-to-day basis, it allows you space to think about other things."

How poor were they? "As a kid, I was very poor. I mean, it's all relative, but we would get groceries from neighbours. I always had a roof over my head, but I slept on couches of relatives, and some night we wandered into a shelter. My family had food stamps and government medical insurance. And I wanted to get out of that, so my ambition was initially to make money; I was pretty driven."

Was he ashamed to be poor? "I wasn't around very wealthy people, but I did think I wanted to be able to be invited into their world."

Maguire is a pragmatic guy, which makes the fact he focused on becoming a movie star strange; the odds are less good than winning the lottery. If he wanted to make money, why not go to law school?

"It's so funny; I was in a meeting with a couple of people who'd experienced some unlikely success, like myself, and we were talking about how the odds weren't great. And that doesn't faze me at all. It's like Kenned talking about us getting on the moon. Right? We actually didn't know how to do that yet, but he just goes, 'All right, before this decade is out, let's get there. We're going to do it.' That's sort of how I see things. Your imagination is not tethered to reality, or infrastructure, or statistics. What is any of that, anyway? I think our lives are a product of our imaginations."

And he knew he had talent. Maguire went to drama classes and, helped by the fact that he looked young for his age, started getting work in commercials and on TV shows. "I'm a realist in some sense. I'm not going to pursue being in the NBA or something – I know that's not going to happen. But if [there's something] I really want, I could find a strategy and put the work behind it to go and achieve that, whatever the odds."

He has been very strategic in his career. When Spider-Man came up, he had a few other choices on the table and tried to figure out which would deliver the biggest return and, as he said at the time, "open up more doors". Maguire had become stuck as the go-to guy for elegiac young men trying to find themselves in period dramas, and although he was very good in The Ice Storm, opposite Michael Caine in The Cider House Rules, and with Michael Douglas in Wonder Boys, it was starting to get old. Spider-Man was a wise decision: the other two films in contention at the time were Hart's War, a second world war action movie that ultimately starred Colin Farrell and Bruce Willis, and bombed, and the crime drama Training Day. That did OK, but nothing compared with Spider-Man, which went on to be the fifth biggest-grossing film of all time in the US and spawn a franchise.

"I'm self-aware enough to understand that it's statistically very hard to achieve the position I'm in," Maguire says. "But I also think I have a lot of ingredients that are right for the path that I've chosen. I find the way, like water; I like to be productive. I'm constantly reflecting on personal progress. And since I was around 15, I knew I'd be successful. Since I was 17 or 18, I always knew I wanted to live a great version of my life. And so I got those ideas, and they have been north stars to me."

What happened with the substance abuse? "I stopped consuming any mind-altering substances when I was 19 years old. And I've been abstinent since then."

Not even alcohol? "Not at all. And I'm a vegan. Maybe I eat a little too much sugar and wheat, but I'm trying constantly to refine."

His children live in California and, because of his own background, he tries to keep things stable for them, although, "I moved around so much and I've continued that in my career. I'm an actor – we go away for a few months and set up our world. And I want my kids to stay in school and make their friends and do all that. But I also appreciate travelling and having different experiences. And though I don't mind the idea of making some sacrifices, I also want to go pursue my career at the same time. I try not to make decisions based on conditioning."

He is an engaging combination of boyish wonder and conscientiousness, which has clearly stood him in good stead, along with his resistance to ageing. "I don't even know how old I look any more. I did look very young. I see kids driving and think, 'Oh God, they look 12.' I was one of those. But I seem to get consideration for characters my age these days." And he is spared the worst excesses of DiCaprio's fame; there are advantages to being the Nick Carraway figure, off to one side, shrewdly taking it all in, while those around you burn out. A guy reading a book, figuring out his next move.

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'Great Gatsby' pairs pals Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire

NEW YORK (AP) – Tobey Maguire didn’t have to go far when Leonardo DiCaprio called him about meeting to discuss an adaptation of “The Great Gatsby” with Baz Luhrmann.

“I happened to live next door to Leo at the time, so it wasn’t a far journey,” Maguire says. “I was like, ‘Oh, yeah. Sure. I can be over in 30 seconds if that’s good for you.’”

“The Great Gatsby” is the first film of note co-starring the two longtime pals. It’s fitting, too, because they play the classic tandem of the desperate romantic Jay Gatsby (DiCaprio) and his lone friend, the narrator Nick Carraway (Maguire) – who, not unlike Maguire, lives adjacent to Gatsby.

Working together on a film is a long time coming for DiCaprio and Maguire. In a recent joint interview at the Plaza Hotel in New York, the two cheerfully reflected on their close friendship, flashing occasional glimpses of the same boyish competitiveness that first brought them together as child actors vying for the same parts.

“After I met Tobey at an audition, I felt like I wanted this guy to be my friend,” recalls DiCaprio. “I remember driving back from school and he was doing ‘Hot Rod Brown Class Clown’ with Whoopi Goldberg outside Hollywood High. It was a high school. And I jumped out of my car in the middle of the scene, as they were shooting, practically. I was like, ‘Tobey! Tobey! Tobey! Give me your number.’ He was like, ‘Yeah, who are you again?’”

That began some 25 years of a friendship that hasn’t been warped by time or fame. They’ve remained steadfast while their careers ascended from frantically chasing parts in “Critters 3” (DiCaprio’s film debut; Maguire got turned down) to being among Hollywood’s top leading men.

They’ve taken different routes. DiCaprio broke out as a teen idol in “Titanic,” star power he then used to tackle ambitious roles with top-tier directors like Martin Scorsese (“The Aviator,” “Shutter Island”), Steven Spielberg (“Catch Me If You Can”) and Clint Eastwood (“J. Edgar”). Maguire built himself through acclaimed dramas (“The Ice Storm,” “Wonder Boys,” “The Cider House Rules”) before landing the “Spider-Man” franchise.

“Every project we do, we talk about,” says DiCaprio. “Every single choice I’ve made, I’ve talked to Tobey about and vice versa. We’ve had endless conversations about certain projects and argued with one another and supported one another along the way.”

Maguire, 37, and DiCaprio, 38, both grew up in divorced families of modest means in Los Angeles.

“We both came from similar upbringings,” says DiCaprio. “We had humble beginnings, let’s put it that way. We both were these young, very enthusiastic, ambitious young men that really wanted to get our foot in the door.”

They share two previous credits: The first is the 1993 Tobias Wolff adaptation, “This Boy’s Life,” in which DiCaprio beat out Maguire for the role opposite Robert De Niro’s domineering stepfather. The two, though, had made a pact that if either got the lead, he would help the other get cast in a supporting role. Maguire played a smaller part.

The two also starred in the 2001 low-budget, black-and-white film “Don’s Plum.” The actors discount the film, which spawned lawsuits over attempts for it to be theatrically released.

The film (which remains unreleased) was shot in the ‘90s by their then-friend R.D. Robb, and captures Maguire and DiCaprio in a fictionalized version of the late-night carousing they were infamous for as young actors in Hollywood. They, along with other friends like Lukas Haas, Kevin Connolly and others, were memorably branded with an alliterative label for their girl chasing. Maguire is now married to Jennifer Meyer with two children.

Over the years, DiCaprio and Maguire have often sought to do something together, but the right movie didn’t come along until “Gatsby.”

“It’s always been about having enough meat on the bone for two actors to be in the same space,” says DiCaprio, laughing as Maguire nods. “Is there enough to do? I mean, you’ve got a great role, but is there enough for me to do?”

Luhrmann calls them “a true partnership.”

“I would have looked at Tobey anyway in the role of Nick Carraway because Tobey is exquisite with the still-waters-run-deep characterization,” says Luhrmann, who also directed DiCaprio in 1996’s “Romeo + Juliet.” “He and Leonardo’s relationship really counted for something. We all knew that if we were going to go through this journey, it would be a plus that we were friends.”

On “Gatsby,” the pair swore to be “brutally honest with one another,” DiCaprio says, depending on their years of friendship to make them “partners in crime.”

Their chemistry together is obvious in the film. As Gatsby, DiCaprio embodies both his charismatic aura and the tortured longing beneath the “old sport” veneer. And as the on-looking Carraway, Maguire is a solid vessel for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s prose.

“I can’t tell you how many countless times on set we would do a scene and come up to one another and say, ‘What’s your take on that? What was I doing, do you think?’” DiCaprio says. “We had our own very distinct private conversations about everything.”

Maguire says he thinks they each have healthy attitudes about how the movie business fits into their relationship – spurred by ambition but also able to root for one another. When Maguire played a traumatized Afghanistan War veteran in the 2009 melodrama “Brothers,” DiCaprio held a party to celebrate the performance – a soiree that was widely believed to help Maguire score a Golden Globe nomination for best actor.

But on the basketball court, where they often play, the competitiveness comes through.

“If you’re picking on a playground, you’d pick Leo first because of the kind of position he plays and the game he plays and his physicality,” says Maguire. “But I would argue that I end up having a better record.”

Howling, DiCaprio responds: “Tobey is great at, you know what he’s great at ...”

“GM-ing a team?” offers Maguire.

“Yes,” confirms DiCaprio, calling Maguire a “strategist.” “He will find a way to win, and that’s what I’ve seen happen in his life, too. ... I’ve seen Tobey, like Gatsby, say, ‘This will happen for me.’”

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