Flying high
Paul Fischer meets LEONARDO DICAPRIO in Los Angeles to talk about Martin Scorsese, Howard Hughes, Alexander the Great and immortality.
eonardo l)i('aprio ix tired and eontrite. ‘lt \\ ax the premiere la.xt night‘. he xa_\x. \\llll a xheepi.xh grin. rel'erring to the t‘irxt l'S .xereening ol' 'I'lie ."t'ltl/UI'. in \xhieh the aetoi' axxumex the role ol' )oung and eomple\ millionaire madman llouard llughex. Wearing a blaek t—xliirt. blaek eaxual jaeket. \x'ith hix hair xlieked baek. the perennith )outhl‘ul .itl—_\ear old xtar hax remained intenxel} passionate about bringing llugliex‘ Me to the xereen l‘or .xe\eral Manx. ‘.-\x an aetor. )ou‘re Cottxlalill) .xearehing tor that great eharaeterf l)i('aprio explainx. '.-\l.xo. being a lii.xtor_\ bull and learning about people in our pa.xt and the ama/ing thingx that the_\ '\ e done. I eame aet'o.x.x a book about llouard llughex and he ix btisiettlly. the moxt multi-dimenxional eharaeter _\ou L‘otlltl e\er eotne itet'oxx. ()l'ten. people lt;t\ e tried to define him in biographiex. but no one xeem.x to be 3th [U eategorise ltlltt.‘ Hughes the ‘in eroud‘ eelebrit} ol the it).‘~().x and 40.x" - otters a parallel \xith l)i(‘aprio in hix uilder
days. but unlike llughex. l)i(‘aprio i.x not a eolleetor
of women. ‘I honextl_\ l‘eel that ax mueh ax he had low and adoration tor thexe \xomen and genuinel} eared for them. he kind ol‘ looked at them like airplanes. He wax a teehnieal genitix and obxexxed with tinding the new. l'axter. bigger airplane] he addx. laughingl}; ‘and that \\a.x ximultaneoux \\ ith \xomen.‘
Stopping to think. l)i('aprio \xearil} eoneedex that
there \\'lll be obvious parallelx made betxxeen himxelt
and Hughes b_\' the pi‘e.x.x. ‘I think he eertainl_\ took
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‘HOWARD HUGHES TOOK THINGS FARTHER THAN I COULD EVER IMAGINE'
thingx larther than I eotild e\er iniaginef he xa_\x. 'I want to be around in the buxinexx loi‘ a long time. \\hile he had an intenxe lear ol' being around people and gerinx.‘
While The .li‘ni/or ix a lilm about the earl} _\outlil'ul ambitionx ol llouard llughex. \\hen it eoinex to l)i(’aprio’x o\\li ehildhood dreamx and obxexxionx. the aetor xa_\x there \\ax reth onl_\ one. ‘l:\ er xinee l got into thix buxinexx at around Ii _\L‘;tl'\ old |l‘\e \xantedl to be in thix buxinexx l'oi'exer. “die in the lirxt hundred _\earx ol einema. \\liieh ix xtill in itx inlane} and I'm \er_\ eurioux to xee \\ll;t[ t_\pex ol lilmx laxt into the ne\t thouxand _\earx. giuxt like \\ltat paintingx people xtill look at. l \\ant to be a part ol pieeex ol' art ax lar ax einema ix eoneei‘ned. that people \\ ill want to xee l'or generationx to eome.‘
.v\x l‘or l'uture proieetx. l)i(‘aprio xa_\x the_\ do not inelude Ba/ l.u|irinaii\ .l/t'uiiii/i'r l/lt' (m'u/ itlue 3(ll)(ii. \thieh at one time \\;t\ going to be a Seorxexe projeet. ‘.-t/etuiii/er l/lt’ (iri'ur \\ax one ol‘ thoxe thingx \\ here Seorxexe and l itixt xhare the xame taxte iii ximilar thingx. \Ve were both l'axeinated \\ith .'\le\ander ax \xell ax Howard llughex. 'l’he_\'re eompletel} dit'l‘erent time periodx and dill'erent men. but ximilar d}namiex. men that keep on reaeliing tor their ultimate goal and xtop at nothing until the_\ ilL‘lth\L‘ that. Stitliitlx llle‘ l.L‘ti ltlltixell.
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