In the cesspool known as Hollywood, there are many actors who have put years into furthering their careers. Some of those actors are bestowed the honor of winning an Oscar, while others are simply cast aside.
One example is an actor who has been in some of my favorite movies such as The Departed, The Wolf of Wall Street, and recently released feature The Revenant. That man is Leonardo DiCaprio
DiCaprio has had a very diverse amount of roles. His various roles include the mentally challenged younger brother of Johnny Depp in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, the enigmatic and immensely wealthy Jay Gatsby in the 2013 rendition of The Great Gatsby, and a sadistic slave owner in Django, all of which had realistic amounts of emotion put into them.
By realistic, I mean that there is no extraordinarily dramatic screaming or crying involved that looks obviously fake like in the latest action/drama dystopian film.
Despite the fact that everyone has different opinions about the film, one has to take the time to appreciate DiCaprio’s dedication.
In Django, there is a dinner scene in which DiCaprio had accidentally cut his hand. Instead of breaking character and stop the filming, DiCaprio proceeded to improvise a rather disturbing scene in which he grabs one of the nearby slaves and then wipes his own blood on her face, in a display of dominance.
“Leo had slammed his hand on the table countless times and he moved his hand further and he crushed a crystal cordial glass,” Django producer Stacey Sher said about DiCaprio. “Blood was dripping down his hand. He never broke character. He kept going. He was in such a zone. It was very intense. He required stitches.”
Despite the improvisation it added an amount of depth to his character. In his most recent feature, The Revenant, DiCaprio played the role of a frontiersman who is savagely attacked by a bear and buried alive in the harsh Wyoming winter. He then embarks on a mission to dig himself out of the grave and kill the man who wronged him.
During filming, DiCaprio reportedly ate a real piece of raw bison liver, of which he initially vomited upon consumption.
“When you see the movie, you’ll see my reaction to it, because [Director Alejandro González Iñárritu] kept it in,” DiCaprio said in an interview with Variety magazine.
How has he not won an Oscar yet? His losing streak in the Academy Awards is something of a social media joke now.
Truly, what is more disgusting? DiCaprio’s improvisations or the fact this man has not won an Oscar? Just give the man his well-deserved Oscar already.