Date of birth of actor Dikaprio

Last night, Leonardo DiCaprio saw in a dream monsters. One by one they came to him - "ferocious, eerie creatures" - and one by one the actor subordinated them to his power. A new film featuring DiCaprio "The Beginning" is entirely based on surrealistic visions, but Leo does not remember his own dreams. However, from the last nightmare, it turned out, it's really hard to get rid of. "I had giant gloves," recalls the actor. "And when the monsters rushed at me, I took turns jamming my hand in their mouths and then pressing them to the ground. I needed to clearly calculate the time, because they all circled around me and any mistake could lead to disaster and massive destruction. "

By the time the clock pointer stopped at 9:45 am, between breaks, Dicaprio likes to sleep, - the actor destroyed the demons around him and saved the world. He woke up in his mansion in Hollywood Hills and thought he was in great shape. The date of birth of actor Dykaprio - November 11, 1974. His life is full of various events.

The only one on earth

Dicaprio knows perfectly well that any of his dreams are much more believable than his own biography. The sex symbol of the girls of all America at the age of seventeen, the Oscar nominee two years later, the most valuable lost passenger of the Titanic at twenty-three for the last ten years, Leo made the whole world forget about it, switching to completely different, much darker roles and becoming a new actor Martin Scorsese: a great director in the XXI century needed a new Robert De Niro. Success has taught DiCaprio to demand everything from life: twenty million dollars for the film, girlfriends-supermodels (at the moment it's the 25-year-old Israeli beauty Bar Refa-Eli). However, Leo managed to avoid any compromises: no multi-series block-busters, no superheroes, no pirates, no astronauts. "Considering everything that happened in my life," says Dykaprio, "I feel quite a balanced person. Of course, I did not allow my flaws to prevail over my merits. I did everything I wanted, and managed to keep my head on my shoulders. Well, how can I not rejoice? "This is not entirely true. Dicaprio puzzles too much on whether his career is developing properly, and these thoughts do not bring him anything but worry. The actor believes that he got out of the format of Hollywood corporate ideals and that his serious dramas for adults earn at the box office not enough money (which is why Leo often does not know where he will be removed a few months after the completion of the next film). In addition, Dicaprio is a staunch defender of the environment. Previously, journalists mistakenly took this as a PR move designed to divert attention from Leo's attentions at parties, but now it is obvious that he is seriously concerned about the possible loss of the oceans and the exhaustibility of the oil resources that can provoke the end of the world. Personally, the actor recommends a documentary film "Collapse", which tells of an impending catastrophe: "I got sick of it." Well, but really frighten Dykaprio household trivia. When he went home one night late at night, he even devised a ritual for himself. "In one hand, the phone, another cigarette case, another wallet and the car keys," mutters Leo, and this scene resembles an episode from the film "Aviator", where the actor starred as Howard Hughes. Dicaprio begins to reduce his stomach from "perfect trifles, which for no reason should disturb you. What marasmus is that your consciousness turns into an absurd database that sends alarms to the body almost without any reason. I have a well-adjusted life, I think about what I'm doing, and after that ... I'm again aching in my stomach because of some stupidity. But I could be excited and something more fascinating, and not this nonsense! So at some point I say to myself: "Forget it, it's not worth attention".

Demons in the head

Whatever demons are hidden in the head of Dicaprio, whatever the real reasons for his anxieties, the actor is clearly not going to share information on this matter. Or, given the years of discontinuing and resuming therapy, he still does not understand the reasons for his panic attacks. Perhaps, however, much of what torments Leo, we have already seen on the screen. The roles of Dicaprio smoothly flow one into the other: he plays more or less the same guys. Charming cheeky, whose life smeared on the wall; Early matured (or prematurely wizened) young guy; a promising wise figure, whose fate is the conclusion in the middle-class cage. "All these images, of course, live in me," says Dicaprio. - And they started to leave me already at an early age, when I realized that I could release them to an image. To play something similar in the cinema is a form of therapy. " His characters are tortured, drug-tested, maddened, deprived of their wives, crippled, they freeze to death in the oceans or die in the African jungle. "It used to happen that I did not die at the cinema," protests Leo, listing films in which his characters were able to survive: The Road of Change, The Set of Lies, The Island of the Damned, The Beginning, The Departed. Dicaprio suddenly pauses. "Wait, like in" The Departed "I also died." Leonardo likes to simultaneously order two drinks at once: one should contain caffeine, in the other - alcohol. Observes the balance. Today in a restaurant in the west of Hollywood in front of the actor are coffee and a portion of vodka and soda. In order to preserve the peace of mind, objects are placed nearby, the availability of which is at hand for the actor: the cigar Monlecristo Open Master in a plastic case, the sunglasses of the Sagger, the purse of Black Berry, which are obviously too large for the owner. The baseball cap is pushed so that the visor hides the transparent blue eyes of the actor, which are fixed on the TV screen, where the intermediate results of the World Cup are shown. Over the years spent in Hollywood, Leo lost that tender beauty that once made Marlon Brando grumble: "He's just a girl". Now his face is noticeably rounded, and his hair has darkened - apparently, his father's Italian genes took precedence over the German ones, which he inherited from his mother. At thirty-five, Dicaprio finally looks exactly at his age. Around the eyes appeared wrinkles, and between the eyebrows there was an angry line, giving the person an ever-worried expression. "I do not think about these changes, because it's impossible to control them," Leo says and rolls his eyes when I admit the possibility that he was trying to artificially make his face coarser on the screen. - What is it like? What do you think I am; physiognomy in the sandbox stuck? "

Work and again work

When DiCaprio is not working on the role, he is in no hurry. Even in the gym does not go - his actor is replaced by basketball in the company of friends. The outstretched tufted beard on any other person would look just sloppy, the black shirt unbuttoned, exposing the hairless chest, and finish the picture with jeans, Nike sneakers and white socks. Together, he writes Leo's resume "an aging major", but in his appearance there is still an elusive elegance. "He's the same breed as Jack Nicholson and Al Pacino," says Christopher Nolan, director of The Beginning. "These guys do not leave Hollywood until their death." Even when Leonardo DiCaprio does not say the strange things that he usually says, his mimicry and gesticulation are still interesting to watch. Leo's features show endless expression, expressing half a dozen different emotions in a few seconds. "Leo is an actor for silent movies," says Martin Scorsese, who is so fervent in Dicaprio that he can be found even in Martin's documentary "The Rolling Stones: Let there be light" playing on the tambourine. Scorsese suggests recalling the scene from The Departed, where the hero Leo, who works under the cover of a policeman Billy Costigan, receives a phone call from the number of his murdered colleague. "You just look at his face! Scorsese exclaims. - At this moment the guy realizes that he does not have to live either. How should he behave in this situation? Panic and paranoia, plus the desire to keep a cold-blooded look at all costs - and this is all read in his eyes. " In ordinary life, the mimic possibilities of Dicaprio make it a slippery type. "I constantly use facial expressions, almost all the time," says the actor. "If you have the ability to convince someone that you missed the information, it makes you stronger." Not that I was a pathological liar, but after all during the day we all behave not entirely honest, is not it? "Leo brings a cup of coffee to his lips and sips a drink. "Ahhh!" - He exclaims with some very inappropriate theatricality. A couple of moments, he keeps a stony expression on his face, and then instantly removes all the blocks from himself. "Great, hot," he says, and again he gasps. "Folgers Crystals", - the advertising part of Dicaprio. At first glance, Leonardo's new work in The Beginning should a little revive the strange image of the actor: it's his first experience in sci-fi movies in twenty years of carders and the first film with special effects after the Titanic (which are only the buildings that are built at the feet of Dicaprio, as if taken from the optical illusions of Escher). In addition, the "Beginning" is probably the first full-fledged summer blockbuster for adults. "Well, and it's going to be my second movie," Leo adds with a cheerful grin. However, for the standard picture in the action genre, the central character of Christopher Nolan's film has too many dark secrets behind him, practically tearing it from within. "It's a cathartic journey, almost a grand therapeutic session," says Dicaprio, who spent two months with Nolan, shoveling the script and adding a character), all new features, many of which, to put it mildly, are impartial. "Leo wanted to get to the heart of his character," recalls Nolan. "What would it be worth after his image?" Usually actors in Hollywood act exactly the opposite. "

Who is he?

Most of all in Dykaprio attracts that it does not matter to him whether you like him or not. At the same time, the actor was able to build his public image so that it was almost impossible to imagine him as a desperate guy who, along with Toby Maguire and Kevin Connolly, was part of an alco-group called the Pussy Posse reporters. Hunters for the "pussies" terrified the girls of the East and West coasts, but when Toby and Kevin are mentioned, Leo's face curls in a contemptuous grimace and he says that he never used the term "Pussy Posse". Leonardo always demanded a role in which he could feel a close emotional connection with the character - because of this, Dicaprio refused to participate in the Star Wars, and in Spider-Man. "In general, I like science fiction," Leo says. "But in order to feel close to a hero from another galaxy, I have very big problems." The success of the "Titanic" allowed the actor to get rid of participation in non-binding projects and gave the opportunity to choose. "When I figure out which film I need to play, there are no compromises for me," Dicaprio said. - I do not care about compromises. And all because if I do on the site what I do not believe in, it will be just humiliating. " A week later, Leonardo pilots a black Lexus sedan, equipped with an eco-friendly hybrid engine, along La Sinega Boulevard. Rather, by piloting this process could be called only in the event that Leo's hands were on the handlebars. Instead, the actor gesticulates extravagantly, devoting me to the details of one of the projects in defense of the nature of the Earth - in this case it is a campaign that will make the tigers a symbol of a part of the animal world on the verge of extinction. ("Now there are only 3200 tigers living in the wild, so they are something like Tom Cruise among other animals"). However, from time to time, Leo still remembers that we are on the road, and the population of Hollywood actors is moving away from the dangerous line. Nine months have passed since the shooting of "The Beginning", and all this time, Dykaprio did not act in film. "I have everything okay when I'm not working in a movie," says the actor. "If I'm not involved in the film, then I can easily do something completely different."

Sponsors of the entry

Leo never managed to find sponsors for a number of projects, for example, for "The Wolf from Wall Street" - stories from the life of clandestine traders of the eighties. "I do not even know if we could find money today for the Aviator," Dikaprio shakes his head. The studio system, after the crisis, has almost destroyed medium-budget films, the success of which can not be guaranteed. " Not so long ago, Leo was negotiating with Clint Eastwood about the biannual ex-FBI boss Edgar Hoover and discussed a project from the life of the Vikings with Mel Gibson. At the time of our conversation, the film with the racist statements of Mela had not yet fallen into the hands of the press, but Dicaprio already then understood that his work with the Australian would cause a lot of questions. "He's a wildly gifted man," Leo says. - "Apocalypse" - one of the most underrated films in history. But if we succeed in something, no one will cave in. I am on my own. It is on its own. We ourselves make fundamental decisions in our lives. So who knows. " Dikaprio's vacation this year is one of the longest after a two-year spree just after the release of the Titanic. However, at that time, the actor spent his time quite differently than now. "When I was young, I was having a good time," Leo says with a broad nostalgic smile that hints that the interlocutor can not even imagine how cool everything was. Dikaprio is experiencing for the current generation of young actors - Zac Efron and Taylor Lautner. "Everyone started growing older than time," he complains. - Young guys are shaking for their reputation, and I was not spit on her. And what people thought of me, too. The more people grumbled: "Leo does not work, he just rushes with his cronies," the more I wanted to score on the shooting. Then for me the whole world turned into an amusement park. " "The fun helped to forget that one day everything could collapse to hell," adds Dicaprio. - The keynote was something like this: "Wow, how did it happen to us with bad guys not to shuffle and shit not to spoil". My two main rivals at the auditions, two blond guys, finished worse than ever: one hung himself, and the second died of a heroin overdose. And I breathed to the drugs exactly. And there were no stories of how I woke up in a penned room somewhere on Hollywood Street. To drink, smoke, and that's enough. Life is a powerful thing, so do not fuck with her into playing toys. " Dikaprio at this age already imagined himself the father of the family, but life, "these roller coaster", ordered otherwise. "Now I feel like seventy years old," the actor says in a senile voice. - I have no family, no children. This ruthless monster of Hollywood devoured me with giblets. " However, Dicaprio is cunning: he does not want to talk about his current girlfriend, Refaeli, nor about her predecessor, Gisele Bundchen, and those comments he gave about his personal life could well be replaced by the old, 1997 model - no one would not have felt a dirty trick. Nevertheless, there is something:

Childhood in the semi-criminal region of eastern Hollywood, according to Dikaprio, he conducted "in the role of a dwarf with the world's most treble in the mouth." Now Leo's growth is about eighty meters, but he really stretched out really only at the age of sixteen. At the same time as a child, the actor received a lot more than the traditional for the child portions of cuffs on the sports grounds. "I was ready to answer everyone and get involved in any fight. Good school. When you say a guy for three years you are older than anything in the spirit: "Go, you know where to go," be ready, that they'll kick your ass so that it does not seem too small. " Dicaprio was never diagnosed with attention deficit disorder, but he was definitely hyperactive, unable to concentrate on the lessons. Of course, he also had a bad character and everywhere he created problems. "I was a real jerk, there's no doubt about it," says Dicaprio, and in his voice you can hear a note of pride. "Parents especially did not get much, but to any educational institution and, first of all, other children - always please," recalls Leo. Dicaprio's parents were hippies and parted ways even before Leo began to walk. At the same time, all three stayed within walking distance - in the same quarter. Mother actor Irmelin worked as a secretary in a law firm. Father George, according to Leo, was "Zelig counterculture" - a prominent figure among the merchants of underground comic books. In the seventies, George drew a scrabrous book called "Lubricator", which had the widest success of connoisseurs. "George in those days was one of the guys who were on the wave," recalls the legendary comic book writer Harvey Pekar. Leo remembered him because the artist broke his father's bed (we spoke with Pekar three days before his death). - He was a great guy. I always boasted of my son. " George was also a great friend of Charles Bukowski and Timothy Leary, who led the wedding ceremony of the elder Dicaprio and his second wife.

When I was small ...

As a child, Leonardo could travel with his father on all comic bookstores in Los Angeles. As a result, the boy became a fan of such, in general, not suitable for his age characters, like the Cellular Demon from the book of S. Clay Wilson - extremely lustful devil, whose adventures were almost pornographic. "I hid the magazines inside the Iron Man," recalls Dicaprio. Of course, Leo simultaneously read and a lot of comic books Marvel. For an actor who deliberately avoids the roles of superheroes, he knows about the genre and his characters are simply indecent a lot. Playing backgammon with me at the end of one of our meetings, he would say "Bamph!" Whenever he moved the chip - as it turned out, this is a subtle reference to the sound effect that can be heard in "The X-Men". There was always a lack of money for parents, and the area where Leo grew up was quite dangerous - to the extent that Dicaprio was afraid to go out alone. "So I often stayed at home," says the actor. "My mother thought I was exaggerating, and I said to her:" Mom, here you go now to buy sweet, and next to the store there will be a guy who has all the drugs you can imagine in the pockets of his cloak. And still there are grazed whores who went out to walk out of the hotel. " Dicaprio is a bit fierce when I push the idea that he could keep the grudge against his parents for what he had to grow in such an environment. "They always tried to protect me as best as possible," the actor states. - They tried very hard and could not exactly jump above their heads. Thank God, nothing bad happened to me. " In addition, Leo believes that his parents helped him cope with the glory without damage to the head. "They gave me complete freedom, so that against whom I could protest in principle?"

New roles

Without any apparent reason, Dykaprio begins to sing the title track from the series "Cheers" - loudly and more enthusiastically than talented. In one hand he has half a devastated pint of "hugarden", in the other - a half-smoked cigar. At the moment Leo hangs in the patio of the elite sports bar Goal, located in western Hollywood. The co-owner of the establishment is an old friend of Dicaprio - John Johnson, who was the personal chef of the actor on the set of the film "The Beginning". Shortly before that, another friend of Leo, actor Lucas Haas, a child famous in the "Witness" with Harrison Ford, with a crash defeated Dicaprio in backgammon. All present are referring to each other "bro". Sometimes this word sounds almost obtrusive. "With people who are close to me, I always remain a simple guy," Leonardo informs me with meaning. Having finished the song, Leo begins a mockingly serious monologue. Leonardo himself was the hero of the series "Growth Problems", the creators of which in the early nineties made a bid for Dykaprio as a nice homeless boy, who had nailed to the family of the Seaers - the central characters of the sitcom. I tell the actor that the appearance of his character was a classic "jump through the shark" (a reception when the authors introduce a new hero into a losing show). Leo looks puzzled: he clearly never heard this expression. Then I explain the origin of the term and build a logical chain: the series "Happy Days", popular in the seventies, its hero Fonzi, water skis, a shark - but Dicaprio stops me: "Thank you, very useful information, then tell my brothers again." What happened with Leonardo then was absolutely incredible: after "Growth Problems" he was on the site of a major Hollywood film, and even as a partner of Robert De Niro ("The Life of this guy"). Leo is still grateful to the TV show producers that they did not sign a contract with him that could block him from participating in the film, which eventually changed his whole career. At that moment, Dicaprio still could not understand what luck had fallen on him. Not so long ago Leo went to visit Ellen Barkin, who played in the movie his mother. "She remembered that we had dinner after one of the final auditions, and I acted as if I had already received a role," the actor says. - And she looked at me so, as soon as she knows how, and says: "What are you doing? Listening is over. " When the role was obtained, little Leonardo quickly realized that it was time to become serious. "I saw Robert De Niro - his incredible ability to improvise, his depth, his attention to the smallest details. I have not seen anything like this before, "recalls Leo. In parallel, Dicaprio arranged for himself a short course in the history of cinema, spending three hours a day watching films on his small TV. For the cassettes Leo drove to the nearest shop on the skateboard.

Titanic Mania

In the midst of the "Titanic" -Manu Leonardo could not afford to be in an open-air place for prying eyes. Approximately then he thought of flying to Japan without a bodyguard and found that at the airport it was waiting for 25,000 teenage girls. The houses were not any better: Leo was everywhere pursued by six SUVs stuffed with paparazzi. But none of this actor took to heart. "It was a parallel world," recalls Leo. - I thought something like: "I have a secret, because I see how people are drawn to this character. Do not think that there is some reference to James Cameron, but I perceived the person to whom all this attention was riveted, like his avatar. " Leo is shivering. "Probably, this is like self-admiration. "Oh, I was a fucking avatar, give me a break, or else I'll start pestering all this attention soon." Not so long ago, Leonardo almost died. He was in the next eco-tour in the Galapagos Islands and got into a group of divers together with the famous marine biologist Sylvia Earl ("The oceans scare me more than any situation on the area in childhood," Leo admits). "I watched a brood of golden rays that met thirty spotted stingrays," the actor says, pausing for a sip of beer. "I tried to shoot them all on an old camera." Leo was so carried away that he sailed quite far from the rest. It ended with the air in his tanks left for one minute - not enough to reach the surface, but just enough to risk getting to a group of divers. They were able to share the oxygen with the actor before surfacing. "All that you think at this moment:" Get me fucked out of this shit, "comments Dicaprio. What happened then? "After that, I fully felt how great to be alive," Leo says. - Do not die at all. I went through all possible ways to protect myself from death as much as possible. But accidents happen from time to time - and there's definitely nothing to be done about it. "

I know the way to happiness

Дикаприо it is absolutely assured, that when he will die, for what would not want to get to such paradise where in a court forever 1997, and the world is shaken by a roar of fans of "Titanic". "There is some stupid statistics that seventy percent of the world's people believe in angels," says the actor. "I'm not an atheist." I am agnostic. I think that in space my planet floats, and not my soul at all. Probably, my words now sound like a delirium of eco-combat, but I think that when humanity finally self-destructs, something new will begin to evolve on the ruins of our world. " If we ignore futurology, Dicaprio strives for a completely accessible and understandable immortality. His favorite motto is "The pain is temporary, the films are eternal", and he recalls traumatic shooting days whenever possible. One of the most intense was the last stage of filming "Aviator", when Howard Hughes repeatedly repeats the phrase about the "path of the future." Dikaprio claims that the episode was photographed forty-five times. Director Scorsese insists that there were only two takes. "When you participate in something like that, it takes emotions and soul out of you. And then you sit in your hotel like a fucking zombie, "Dicaprio tells me with shining eyes. - But you are good at this moment, this is the case when the pain goes for good. Because you feel that you spent a grand working day. And you know that the work done, no matter how loud it may sound, will live forever. "