Leonardo endured a beating from Rober De Niro during Martin Scorsese’s latest film. However, the actor was already prepared. Photo: Apple TV+
In the current film “Killers of the Flower Moon” the character is played by Robert De Niro punished Leonardo Dicaprio with a surprise flogging with a giant oar, a scene that did not exist in the original book David Grann.
Rodrigo Prieto, the film’s cinematographer, admitted that he was amazed that this scene was included outside of the book he read before starting production on the film. In this scene, DiCaprio plays the role of Ernest Burkhartis led into a hidden room by his uncle, William Haleplayed by De Niro, is to be punished for sabotaging part of his plan to murder Burkhart’s wife’s wealthy Osage family. Mollie Kyle.
There were several shots that the director, Martin Scorsese, he demanded to bring that scene to life, and according to Prieto, De Niro never held back on the beating he gave DiCaprio. However, the experienced actor was prepared for the blows with a little trick to prevent the pain from spreading more than necessary.
“There was some padding in the butt, but you could tell that De Niro was really going full throttle,” De Niro admits to Insider (Portal/Sarah Meyssonnier)
“I remember doing them (the shots) several times and thinking, ‘Oh, that must hurt.’ The butt had some padding, but you could tell De Niro was really packing a punch. Leo is ready to do a lot. “He’s up for anything,” Rodrigo told Business Insider.
The truth is that DiCaprio’s involvement as an actor has been documented numerous times. One of them was in the film The Revenant, where he not only had to endure extreme cold, but also had to eat raw bison liver in front of the lens of director Alejandro González Iñarritu. Clay Landry, the film’s historical and survival consultant, said that DiCaprio was originally supposed to eat an artificial liver made from protein bars, but decided to eat a real liver shortly before filming began.
Leonardo DiCaprio is known for flaunting his physical integrity in the films he stars in.
Although the vast majority of people wouldn’t be willing to eat raw meat, it may have been even more of a challenge for DiCaprio considering the 48-year-old actor is a vegetarian.
To the bison liver were added the 50 kilo coats, which were intended to be as similar as possible to those worn by the real hunters of the time, and if wearing the coat was already complicated, it was all thanks to the scenes in which Leo did it had to do, diving into ice water was even more complicated.
“I think it was the most difficult film any of us have ever made.”” said DiCaprio in 2015 months before he won his first Oscar thanks to this unusual performance.
But Leo’s love for acting is reflected not only in the way he takes physical risks, but also in the creative ideas he presents to his directors. “Killers of the Flowers Moon” is the most recent example of this, as it was DiCaprio who convinced Martin Scorsese to give the film a new twist, away from what writer David Grann had originally conceived.
It was Leonardo DiCaprio who convinced Martin Scorsese to rewrite the screenplay for Killers of the Flower Moon.
“Leo came up to me and asked, “Where’s the crux of this story?”“I had meetings and dinners with the Osage and thought, ‘Well, there’s the story.’ We felt like the real story wasn’t necessarily coming from outside, from the office, but from inside, from Oklahoma,” Martin Scorsese said in a recent interview.
Furthermore, in this film Leo drives both the director and his co-star to despair. That’s because he insisted on improvising some of his scenes.
“Every now and then Bob (Robert De Niro) and I would look at each other and roll our eyes a little bit. And we said (to DiCaprio): “You don’t need this dialogue‘” Scorsese revealed in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.