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Is keeping it on the Qt…
The Once Upon A Time… star is so hot right now.
Most actors follow up an Oscar win with a slew of big projects, eager to make hay while the sun shines. Leonardo DiCaprio, meanwhile, has not appeared on screen since he finally nabbed his golden baldie at the fifth attempt by fighting a bear and freezing his pecs off in 2015’s The Revenant.
Why the absence? Perhaps it’s taken four years to get over feasting on raw bison liver – Leo was still shuddering many months later, when he recalled, “The bad part is the membrane around it, like a balloon. When you bite into it, it bursts in your mouth.” More likely he just fancied a break, having been acting since the age of five, and, in his early twenties, becoming one of the most famous people on the planet with the double whammy of Romeo + Juliet and Titanic.
Still, what a way to re-enter the fray. In August, DiCaprio will headline Quentin Tarantino’s ninth movie,
Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood, playing faded TV actor Rick Dalton in late-’60s LA. Brad Pitt is Dalton’s stunt double, Cliff Booth, and Margot Robbie is none other than Sharon Tate, for this Tinseltown tale will take in the infamous Manson Murders.
And if DiCaprio re-teaming with QT after Django Unchained isn’t enticing enough, the 44-year-old actor is, as Teasers goes to press, in talks to star in Guillermo del Toro’s remake of 1947 noir Nightmare Alley, about a con man and a femme-fatale psychiatrist. It will be GdT’s first gig since he won Best Picture and Best Director for The Shape Of Water. And then there are plans for a sixth and seventh union with Martin Scorsese, first playing legendary Texas Ranger-turned-federal officer Tom White in Killers Of The Flower Moon, and then President Theodore Roosevelt in the plainly titled Roosevelt.
Looks like DiCaprio will be making hay in that beating sun after all. “I’m lucky to have gotten this shot,” he told Esquire in 2017, “and if I don’t do this to the best of my ability – if I don’t work my ass off – I’ve squandered this golden opportunity. That’s always been what has propelled me.”
ETA | 14 AUGUST / ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD OPENS THIS SUMMER.