Umm…ok. Leonardo DiCaprio talked about his involvement in the latest theatrical box office must-see, ‘Inception.’ He always uses big words like cathartic and existential, but in a candid and cold moment he talks about his rise from the child star ranks in an interview with Rolling Stone.
“I got to be wild and nuts, and I didn’t suffer as much as people do now, where they have to play it so safe that they ruin their credibility. I didn’t care what anyone thought…. It was also about avoiding the tornado of chaos, of potential downfall. It was, ‘Wow, how lucky are we to not have hung out with that crowd or done those things?’ My two main competitors in the beginning, the blond-haired kids I went to audition with, one hung himself and the other died of a heroin overdose… . I was never into drugs at all. There aren’t stories of me in a pool of my own vomit in a hotel room on the Hollywood Strip.”
He didn’t name names, but I believe that the “blond haired kid” who hung himself was Jonathan Brandis. Sad. Leo goes on to talk about his post Titanic fame and I question the interviewer use of time with DiCaprio…
On dating:
“I had better success meeting girls before Titanic. My interactions with them didn’t have all the stigma behind it, not to mention there wasn’t a perception of her talking to me for only one reason.”
On dealing with his Titanic fame:
“It was like there was a separate entity out there,” he says. “Not to use a James Cameron reference, but it was like being in a little bit of an avatar.” He cringes. “That’s going to sound extremely self- indulgent. It’s going to sound like, ‘Oh, I was a frickin’ avatar,’ give me a break, I’m already vomiting.”
How odd, me too!
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