The one role that changed everything for Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo DiCaprio is known for his reliable genius and considered creative choices, with one film sparking his approach towards the creative process.
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Thu 30 January 2025 17:45, UK
For actors that start out in the film business during their adolescence or childhood, the path to stardom can have a strange impact on your identity and perception of yourself. Performers like Zendaya and Kieran Culkin have discussed the abnormalities of growing up in the public eye and discovering yourself while being intensely scrutinised, sometimes leading to a complex relationship between fame and Hollywood itself. Leonardo DiCaprio began working in the film industry as a teenager, with a performance that quickly elevated him to fame and led him to be regarded as one of the most exciting newcomers in the business, with a wisdom that felt beyond his years and emotional intelligence that is rare to see even in adults.
However, while this would lead many people to feel intense pressure in selecting future projects and adhering to public expectations about themselves, DiCaprio always focused less on what other people wanted from him and honed in on his instincts, leading to one film that changed his career in ways he couldnât predict.
Over the years, DiCaprio has accumulated widespread recognition for astounding performances in Basketball Diaries, Titanic, Romeo and Juliet and The Wolf of Wall Street, becoming known for his reliably nuanced and considered performances as he works with some of the greatest male directors of our time. He has built strong partnerships with filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, with the actor sharing his reasoning for working on the 2002 film Catch Me If You Can and the strange experience of selecting surprising and perhaps unexpected roles when known by such a large audience.
DiCaprio explained, âI have never thought about choosing a specific role because it would make me seem more manlike. Even with roles like Catch Me If You Can, I was eight or ten years older than the character I portrayed. It was an interesting character. And I knew that it was maybe one of the last times I could play a character like that. I think these things are really something that are intangible that you can never really control. I keep saying this, but itâs the truth. You do these movies, and you give it out to the world, and you really have no idea how people are going to react to you, the subject matter.â
The actor touches on something crucial, which is that no matter which part of the creative process you control, the ultimate act of creativity is to release the final product into the world and resign yourself to the fact that it no longer belongs to you. Once a film is shown to the public, your intentions or feelings behind the character will not matter to the people who then form their own understanding of who they are.
DiCaprio expanded on this, saying, âIâve been in plenty of situations where I thought a film would turn out one way, where my performance would be looked at one way, and it was an entirely different situation. Once you make these movies, you give it out to the world, and then you guys get to pick it apart.â
Ultimately, while the actor has control over the beginnings of any creative process and the characters he wants to play, also demonstrating a strong instinct that allows him to separate from what people expect him to do, the final act is to ultimately give it away entirely. The reaction to Catch Me If You Can shows that no matter how you feel about your work, it will always be interpreted in ways beyond your control, which is perhaps the most rewarding and magical aspect of filmmaking.
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