Leonardo DiCaprio loves “watching outdated films”.
The 50-year-old actor is a self-confessed “cinephile” and he considers himself lucky to have labored with a few of Hollywood’s greatest administrators.
Talking to The Hollywood Reporter, DiCaprio credit working with big-name administrators to “luck, and I assume the perseverance of simply letting them know that you just wish to work with them, some day when the time is true.
“That’s what I’ve been doing; that’s how I met Marty [Scorsese] after I was younger, I simply let him know that if he’s prepared, I’m prepared.”
DiCaprio is a big movie fan and he is relished the expertise of working with the likes of Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino and Paul Thomas Anderson, the director of his new film, One Battle After One other.
He defined: “I actually love movie as an artwork kind; I really like watching outdated films, I’m a cinephile, and it’s like these uncommon movies rise to the highest. There’s sure filmmakers which have a large number of these movies — Paul is one in every of them, Quentin [Tarantino] is one in every of them, Marty’s one in every of them. So I simply allow them to know I’m prepared and I’m sport if they’re.”
DiCaprio considers Paul to be “one of many nice visionary filmmakers” of the trendy technology. And the Hollywood star jumped on the likelihood to work with the acclaimed filmmaker.
He shared: “Any time that he asks, you’re employed with P.T.A. This man is like one of many nice visionary filmmakers of my technology.
“His movies, I’m nonetheless intrigued by to today; I nonetheless speak about The Grasp, Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood, Magnolia — these movies which might be going to final for generations to come back so that you soar at a chance to work with Paul.”
DiCaprio just lately hailed the director as a “distinctive filmmaker”.
The film star instructed Selection: “He is such a novel, authentic visionary, and I do know this was a film he is been fascinated about for the final 20 years.
“And anytime you get someone that is actually attempting to do an enormous spectacle odyssey that’s such a novel filmmaker like Paul, it’s a must to soar on the alternative.
“To let you know the reality, I might have finished any film that he proposed, as a result of he is that distinctive and attention-grabbing of a filmmaker and nice.
“However I am glad I acquired to do that one.”
DiCaprio portrays ex-revolutionary Bob Ferguson, who “sits residence and smokes pot on a regular basis”, in One Battle After One other, and he admitted to taking inspiration from Jeff Bridges’ The Massive Lebowski character, The Dude, for the half.
He defined: “I took loads of inspiration from The Dude.”
