"I guess you could say I target most of the directors I want to work with," says DiCaprio, a film buff known for sending scripts unsolicited to directors who he believes could handle the story. I've seen good material go to the wrong filmmaker, and it never captures what you believed the story was supposed to be."ĭiCaprio has a reputation as one of the most selective actors in the industry, and he doesn't so much audition for a role as grill a director like a recruit at a job interview.
He found it in Django's slave-owning Calvin Candie, a character DiCaprio says "represents the moral decay of a corrupt South then."ĭiCaprio says that while he was in the mood to play a reprobate, "you have to be careful who you trust that power with. But DiCaprio says he wanted to go "all-out corrupt" with a role. "The guy is a self-indulgent, racist bastard," he says of the character by phone while on a break from shooting The Wolf of Wall Street, his fifth collaboration with Scorsese.ĭiCaprio played a brutal cop in Scorsese's The Departed and an avenging street hood in the director's Gangs of New York in 2002. The film, set two years before the Civil War, marks new territory for the 38-year-old DiCaprio: villainy.
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On Christmas Day, DiCaprio teams with another filmmaking icon, Quentin Tarantino, in Django Unchained, the director's spaghetti Western about a former slave (Jamie Foxx) determined to free his wife (Kerry Washington) from a ruthless plantation owner (DiCaprio). Since he graduated from Growing Pains in 1992, DiCaprio has served as muse for, among others, James Cameron, Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese, helping the last win his first directing Oscar in 2006's The Departed. Leonardo DiCaprio's stardom launched aboard Titanic, but it steams forward thanks to the actor's choice in captains.
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