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31.12.02

"OK, so my ego's getting bigger" - Leonardo DiCaprio


Titanic star, Leonardo DiCaprio, tells Radio Times this week that he wants to be remembered as a versatile actor and not just a movie heart-throb. "I don't want to look back at a bunch of crappy action movies that fade into nothing," he says. "I want to leave a legacy as an actor."


DiCaprio, aged just 28, is about to appear on British movie screens in Martin Scorcese's epic tale of the historical origins of New York's ghetto gangs in the mid-19th century. The eagerly awaited Gangs of New York opens in the UK on January 11th and DiCaprio suggests the film offers a crucially important message for US citizens. "This is the history that Americans are not taught, that disappears through time," he claims. "When we learn about American history, it's always this Utopia where the ideas of freedom overpower everything, as opposed to the real hardships and bloodshed and class fighting that went on."


DiCaprio does admit to Radio Times though that if his name is associated with a movie, it virtually guarantees a studio bankrolling the production: "I'm not an idiot," he says. "I know that the reason I'm able to attract the finance for movies with large budgets is because of my name, and that's a direct result of Titanic. I'm lucky. But while I'm in this position, I'm going to do the absolute best that I can. I want to be the best possible actor."


Some have suggested that the young actor has not coped well with fame and that he has an over-inflated opinion of himself. He responds with gusto to these accusations. "I know there is the perception that I have no idea what it's like to be a real person, that I'm just Hollywood," he sighs. "That's absolutely false. I'm proud of how I've been able to take myself out of the celebrity thing and look at my whole career, and keep my perspective."


DiCaprio then follows all this up with a strange explanation as to why he will be playing Alexander the Great in an epic production to be shot next year under the direction of Baz Luhrman. "Ok," he admits, "so my ego's getting bigger, but it's not as big as Alexander the Great's!"





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