Showing posts with label Leonardo DiCaprio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leonardo DiCaprio. Show all posts

Monday, 29 September 2014

Leonardo DiCaprio's Secret....!!!!

Leonardo DiCaprio has a secret. In a recent video captured at Coachella — a sweat lodge at which people with selfie tattoos congregate for two weekends in April — the actor unwittingly performs in 13 seconds of what appears to be a Geriatric Zumba workout video to MGMT. He throws a high-kick into the air, impressive for how unimpressively low it is, before he swipes the air with reckless abandon and launches into a jumping jack.

What makes this particularly mystifying is that the DiCaprio we’ve come to know actually does know how to dance. His moves have been well-documented on the big screen. He jigs in “Titanic.” He rolls his body in seven dimensions in “The Wolf of Wall Street.”  He is a suave gentleman who, to quote his fellow Victoria’s Secret fanboy Adam Levine, “moves like Jagger.” He’s a man who won’t touch pizza served by Ellen DeGeneres at the Oscars, but scarfs it down on the street. And this is the paradox of Leonardo DiCaprio: sexy gentleman behind the camera, lame dude in public. Strip him of the multimillion-dollar movie deals and the scores of screaming female fans, and he is simply an uncool dad in disguise.

First, there’s his wardrobe, a rotating stable of cargo shorts, dad sneakersfanny packs, bucket hats and other stupid hats. There’s the T-shirts he wears when swimming. The way he chases only younger women, and talks about them like someone who never gets any women. The goatee he sports, like those two guys in Godsmack. The fact that his best friend is a magician. In other words, Leo DiCaprio lives his life like an extended middle-age crisis.
In some ways, the signs were there all along. By his own admission, he “used to be a pop-locker” when he was in elementary school (real words he once actually spoke). As he told DeGeneres in 2010, “It’s actually one of the reasons why I didn’t get an agent, because I auditioned and I had a punk rock haircut and I danced like a little street dancer, and they rejected me.” And yet somehow DiCaprio’s public image is just the part of the truth we want to believe, like a character in a non-ironic lyric from Alanis Morisette’s “Ironic.” He is a white tiger witnessed in a David Attenborough documentary that was hunted for sport just days after filming. He is the guy with tinted windows, blasting LMFAO as he tries to pull ahead of you at the traffic light, only to stall out as you pass him. Tricking the public into thinking he’s cool may just be the most impressive performance of his life.

Sunday, 28 September 2014

Real Life Wolf Of The Wall Street

Real-life Wolf of Wall Street says his life of debauchery 'even worse' than in film

Jordan Belfort, who was jailed for 22 months for securities fraud, admits that the Oscar-nominated film based on his memoir had no need to exaggerate the sex and drugs
The controversial figure whose memoir formed the basis of Leonardo DiCaprio's unhinged stockbroker in Martin Scorsese's Oscar-nominated black comedy The Wolf of Wall Street has revealed his debauched life of sex and drugs was "even worse" than shown in the film.
Jordan Belfort made the admission in a candid interview with the Hollywood Reporter days before this year's Oscars ceremony, where Scorsese's controversial film is up for five prizes. The 51-year-old, who served 22 months in jail for securities fraud between 2004 and 2006 after setting up the discredited Stratton Oakmont brokerage and penny stock "boiler room" in Long Island, said Terence Winter's screenplay had not needed to exaggerate his outrageous existence.

"The drug use and the stuff with the hookers and the sales assistants and the sex in the office … that stuff is really, really accurate," said Belfort. "In some respects, my life was even worse than that. Although I'd say I did more quaaludes than cocaine."

Scorsese's film includes a number of scenes in which Belfort and his cronies imbibe quaaludes, a long-banned sedative with apparent devastating consequences if taken in high doses. The Wolf of Wall Street has been criticised by disability-rights groups for a scene in which DiCaprio reaches "cerebral palsy stage" while under the influence of the drug. Belfort admits in the interview that this might be his fault.

"I spent hundreds of hours with Leo doing everything you could imagine, from hanging out socially to showing him what it's like to be on drugs," he said. "I took him through the stages and I was rolling on the floor in his house as he was filming me."
However, the former broker, who now works as a motivational speaker, said a scene at the end of the film where Belfort attacks his wife is fictionalised.

 "I never punched my wife in the stomach," he said. "It was more of a struggle where she grabbed onto my leg and I kicked out. I was out of my mind. I was at the lowest point of my life. I'm not trying to minimise it; it was awful what I did. But it was under the [influence] of massive quantities of drugs."