WHAT YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT LEONARDO DICAPRIO
Added on: 1st Nov 2016
A TIME JOURNALIST ONCE DUBBED DICAPRIO
BORING, FOR THE ACTOR’S ABILITY TO REEL
OFF THE NAMES OF 20 ENDANGERED SPECIES
FROM MEMORY
LEONARDO´S 10 FAVOURITES MOVIES ARE:
BICYCLE THIEVES (1948), TAXI DRIVER (1976),
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962), 8½ (1963),
THE THIRD MAN (1949), YOJIMBO (1961),
SUNSET BLVD. (1950), THE SHINING (1980)
AND EAST OF EDEN (1955)
AFTER THEY FINISHED FILMING “REVOLUTIONARY
ROAD” (2008), LEO BOUGHT HIS GOOD FRIEND
KATE WINSLET AN INSCRIBED GOLD RING.
WINSLET KEEPS THE INSCRIPTION A SECRET THOUGH
THESE DAYS, DICAPRIO AND MARK WAHLBERG
ARE GOOD FRIENDS BUT IN A 2013 HOLLYWOOD
REPORTER PROFILE, WAHLBERG REVEALED
THAT HE AND DICAPRIO INITIALLY HATED EACH
OTHER WHEN CAST IN 1995’S “BASKETBALL DIARIES”
IN 2006, LEO HAD A CLOSE AND DANGEROUS
ENCOUNTER WITH A SHARK. HE WAS ON A
DIVING EXPEDITION IN CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA,
WHERE HE ENDED UP COMING FACE-TO-FACE
WITH A GREAT WHITE. FORTUNATELY, LEO WAS
ABLE TO KEEP ENOUGH DISTANCE IN THE CAGE HE
WAS IN AND MADE IT OUT WITHOUT A SCRATCH
LEO ALSO ALMOST DIED ONCE WHILE SKYDIVING.
HIS PARACHUTE WOULDN’T OPEN AND LUCKILY AN
INSTRUCTOR WAS CLOSE ENOUGH TO SAVE HIM
DICAPRIO FIRST APPEARED ON SCREEN AT THE
AGE OF FIVE IN THE CHILDREN’S TV SHOW
ROMPER ROOM, BUT WAS FIRED FOR BEING
TOO DISRUPTIVE
IN 1998, LEONARDO WAS CHOSEN BY PEOPLE
MAGAZINE AS ONE OF THE "50 MOST
BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE IN THE WORLD"
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