Leonardo DiCaprio was interviewed by his director “One Battle After Ofter” Paul Thomas Anderson for the latest of the actor Cover story of the Esquire Magazine And revealed that his biggest career was to reject Anderson's “Boogie Nights” OB almost 30 years ago. DiCaprio was Anderson's original choice to play Eddie Adams, the high-school drop, which under the name Dirk Diggler becomes one of the most popular stars in the porn industry. But DiCaprio was already committed to “Titanic”, a role that would transform him into a global film star.
“I will say it, even though you are here: my greatest regret is” Boogie Nights “not to” do, “admitted DiCaprio. “It was a profound film of my generation. I can't imagine anyone as a mark [Wahlberg] in it. When I finally saw this film, I just thought it was a masterpiece. It is ironic that they are the person who asks this question [about regrets]But it's true. ”
As the story says, Anderson DiCaprio wanted to go to “Boogie Nights” after seeing the young actor in the 1995 “The Basketball Diaries”. When he rejected the role, DiCaprio Anderson asked to think about Mark Wahlberg Wahlberg instead. The rest is history.
Now, here, DiCaprio and Anderson are “One Battle After OTS” 30 years later, their first film cooperation, which will be opened in cinemas in September. DiCaprio plays Bob Ferguson, a washed -out revolutionary struggle to save his youthful daughter Willa (Chase Infiniti).
“Why did it take so long?” Anderson asked DiCaprio that they worked together.
“I know that one battle after another has been on her desk for a long time,” replied DiCaprio. “In many ways it was a personal story for you and certainly relevant for the world in which we are living. But in the end it was pretty easy to make this film: I wanted to work with you-Paul-Seit for about twenty years, and I loved this idea of washed out revolution to extinguish, disappear, disappear and try to extinguish a kind of normal life education.”
Anderson also asked Dicaprio if he ever looked at one of his old films. The actor, which was awarded the Oscar, admitted that “I rarely watched one of my films, but if I'm honest, there is one that I saw more than others. It is 'the aviator'. This is simply because it was a special moment for me.”
“The Aviator” was the second collaboration between DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese. DiCaprio played in the biographical drama Business Tycoon Howard Hughes and received an Oscar nomination for the best actor.
“I had worked with Marty [Scorsese] On “Gangs of New York” and for ten years in a book about Howard Hughes, “said DiCaprio. I was thirty. It was the first time as an actor that I implicitly felt part of the production as just an actor who was hired to play a role in the whole new way. for the first time a role of a real employee.
“One Battle of another” opened in the cinemas on September 26 by Warner Bros. Esquires website Read DiCaprio and Anderson's full conversation.