Leonardo DiCaprio has topped his batshit crazy in character commitment once again. In his new film The Revenant, Leonardo DiCaprio plays an 19th Century trapper, who is abandoned in the wilderness after being mauled by a bear, and seeks vengeance on those who left him to die. With a budget of $135 million, produced by critically acclaimed Birdman director Alejandro G. Iñárritu, and staring Leonardo DiCaprio and Mad Max Star Tom Hardy, The Revenant has high hopes, and both Leo and Alejandro have their eyes on the academy awards.
The final straw for DiCaprio
The shooting of The Revenant was no easy task for DiCaprio, as he filmed in freezing temperatures for hours on end, and in an interview with Yahoo! Movies, Leo said “[he] can name 30 or 40 sequences that were some of the most difficult things [he’s] ever had to do”. Some of which included having to sleep in dead animal carcasses for the role, and even eat a real bison liver. If Leo doesn’t win an Oscar for this, then either the Academy Awards must be rigged, or Leo is in a category of his own, that normal sentient beings cannot comprehend. Though Leo was offered the chance to eat a fake bison liver made of jelly, he felt that the jelly liver looked unrealistic, and opted for a real one. After getting approval from lawyers and his agents, Leo willingly dug into his raw bison liver, stating “the bad part is the membrane around it. . . . It’s like a balloon. When you bite into it, it bursts in your mouth”. That’s dedication only Leo has for his roles, voluntarily earing a bison liver just because the jelly liver looked somewhat fake. The loss of Leo’s sanity was first highlighted in Shutter Island, his film about an insane asylum inmate that slowly comes to realize his own insanity. From there Leo has branched out into his role as a crazed Southern slave owner in Django Unchained, who pits his slaves to fight to the death for his own amusement. Accordingly, Leo tops it off in Wolf of Wall Street, were he’s a crooked Wall Street business man who is addicted to money, women, power and drugs, you can’t forget the ludes.
Desperation or Brilliance
Furthermore, Leo’s new role in The Revenant is plagued with insanity, as it had him sleeping in dead animals as part of his role, so his on screen character could survive sub-zero temperatures. Most of this might ask us to question Leo’s sanity, cause which sane person would voluntarily enter into frozen rivers, sleep in animal carcasses and eat a real bison liver? Man is Leo batshit crazy, or just that desperate to win an Oscar that he would endure in his own words “freezing cold and possible hypothermia constantly”, for his role in The Revenant. Leo did get sick due to his role in The Revenant though, stating “[he] got the flu quite a few times”, however it was because of the below freezing temperatures he had to endure, and not the consumption of a raw bison liver. After all this sacrifice and in-role commitment, who wouldn’t want to see Leo’s new movie, just to see him getting cozy in dead animals, taking a dip in freezing waters, and obviously for his devouring of a real bison liver, yum.
Wow, what dedication, and he still hasn’t won any Oscars.