Martin Scorsese exposes Leo DiCaprio’s irritating on-set habit
Martin Scorsese has exposed Leo DiCaprio’s irritating on-set habit that came to light while the pair were filming the new movie Killers of the Flower Moon.
The award-winning director called out the A-list actor in a conversation with the Wall Street Journal, saying that the Titanic star tends to flesh details out and improv while filming, describing his technique as “endless, endless, endless!”
Although Scorsese and DiCaprio have worked together on six other films, there was one more actor on the set of the new film that could not stand the ad libbing: Robert de Niro.
“Then Bob didn’t want to talk,” Scorsese explained. “Every now and then, Bob and I would look at each other and roll our eyes a little bit. And we’d tell him, ‘You don’t need that dialogue.’”
While de Niro wasn’t able to deal with DiCaprio’s improv, director Quentin Tarantino said the actor’s famous freakout scene as Rick Dalton in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood “wasn’t in the script,” but was brought to the table by DiCaprio himself, and took the film to another level.
Despite the “endless” technique of DiCaprio’s acting, Scorsese said the actor was instrumental in the film’s success, after he helped determine that the film needed a rewrite in order to avoid being a “movie about all the white guys.”
“It just didn’t get to the heart of the Osage,” DiCaprio told Deadline in May, with reference to the original script.
“It felt too much like an investigation into detective work, rather than understanding from a forensic perspective the culture and the dynamics of this very tumultuous, dangerous time in Oklahoma.”
Killers of the Flower Moon is in cinemas now.
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