Sunday
09Nov2008
Leo Talks Kate Winslet and 'Revolutionary Road'
Sunday, November 9, 2008 at 3:49AM
Later this year,
Leonardo
DiCaprio will re-team with
Kate Winslet
in
Revolutionary Road. Together, of course, they
were the star-crossed Jack and Rose in Titanic, although DiCaprio has
been trying to shed that teen heartthrob image ever since.
"For me, the film asks a good question — what do you do when you are trying to hold on to a higher moral context in an immoral world? Ferris is trying to do good by his country while his country is slapping him in the face. I’m very anti-war.”
In an interview with The Sunday Times, Leo discusses making another film with Winslet, this time under the direction of her husband, Sam Mendes. “Kate’s the same person she was then,” he says. “She’s remained a close friend,” he says. But DiCaprio knows - as does Winslet, no doubt - that when two great actors get a hold of the same material, tremendous things can happen. In the case of Revolutionary Road, Kate and Leo play a married couple with big dreams but a bigger, more depressing reality.
“It’s set in the 1950s, when America was just starting to develop morally into what it would become, and here are two people dealing with their own identity, trying not to be clichés," he explains. "I knew that Kate and I could really get stuff out of each other, performance wise, that we could push each other’s buttons. It was exciting.”
Exciting enough to draw Titanic numbers? “I’ll never reach that state of popularity again,” DiCaprio readily admits. “And I’m not going to try.”
Reader Comments (3)
DiCaprio could be huge again if he'd make better choices and stop being so serious. Scorcese directed affairs are the only thing anyone wants to see him in these days. He could learn a lot from guys like Damon, Bale, Downey Jr., and Depp and find a popcorn serial to do between message movies...
Leonardo DiCaprio is an amazing actor, he really knows what he's doing each time he acepts to make a new movie!
He only works with really appeling material, not just for fame, but for the truth!!!!!
CONGRATULATIONS LEO!
Why would DiCaprio want to be 'huge again'? He's become a very good actor by accepting serious material, that' s much more rewarding than being 'huge again' with a 'popcorn serial'.
Some people don't seem to understand that being a heartthrob is a short-lived privilege (or burden, if you will). Trying to remain a heartthrob is pathetic. This actor knows that.