WHAT YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT LEONARDO DICAPRIO

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"