11/12/2023 0 Comments Moss book 2![]() ![]() It became the biggest box-office success in film history. He turned down the Mark Wahlberg role in Boogie Nights, choosing instead to act in Titanic, opposite Kate Winslet. Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, with Claire Danes, capitalized on DiCaprio's sex symbol status. Instead he played a cocky gunslinger in The Quick and the Dead, and became a Tiger Beat teen heartthrob with Jim Carroll's The Basketball Diaries in 1995. DiCaprio was offered the role of Robin in Batman Forever, but wisely declined. DiCaprio was nominated for an Academy Award for playing Johnny Depp's retarded kid brother in What's Eating Gilbert Grape. He started collecting positive reviews with This Boy's Life, with Robert De Niro as his viciously abusive stepfather. The friendship eventually evolved into what DiCaprio has called his "Pussy Posse", a small circle of buddies (including magician David Blaine, rapper Q-Tip, actor Lukas Haas, and Gummo director Harmony Korine) who hung out together chasing skirt and drinking beer.ĭiCaprio's first film was Critters 3: You Are What They Eat. At his audition for Parenthood, DiCaprio met another unknown teenaged actor, Tobey Maguire, and the two hit it off. Parenthood was quickly canceled, and DiCaprio joined the long-running Growing Pains in its last season, as a homeless waif taken in by the TV family. When NBC turned the Steve Martin movie Parenthood into a sitcom, 15-year-old DiCaprio played the a brooding teenager, the Joaquin Phoenix role in the movie. He made dozens of TV commercials, and in one of his first "movie" roles, he narced on his on-screen parents in an educational film titled How to Deal With a Parent Who Takes Drugs. Growing up in L.A., DiCaprio was auditioning for one part or another through most of his childhood. He was soon booted from the set for rowdiness. DiCaprio entered show business at about the same time he entered kindergarten, appearing on Romper Room. Family friends included Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary. His father was a well-known figure in the Los Angeles hippie scene and a distributor of underground comic books, who frequently brought home guests like Robert Crumb and Charles Bukowski. Leonardo DiCaprio's parents divorced soon after he was born, but both remained involved in their son's life. ![]()
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