Leonardo DiCaprio gave a #longread interview to Wired in support of The Revenant (review), which, as far as we know, doesn’t include a scene in which his character gets raped by a bear. There was no talk of rape, a little about bears, and a lot about DiCaprio’s brushes with death (“If a cat has nine lives, I think I’ve used a few”), and I don’t mean J. Edgar getting murdered by critics.
DiCaprio told the interviewer, “A great white jumped into my cage when I was diving in South Africa. Half its body was in the cage, and it was snapping at me.” When asked, what the hell, he responded:
They leave the tops open and you have a regulator line running to the surface. Then they chum the water with tuna. A wave came and the tuna sort of flipped up into the air. A shark jumped up and grabbed the tuna, and half its body landed inside the cage with me. I sort of fell down to the bottom and tried to lie flat. The great white took about five or six snaps an arm’s length away from my head. The guys there said that has never happened in the 30 years they’d been doing it… [The shark] flipped itself back out again. I have it on video. (Via)
DiCaprio also has a fun story about being on an airplane when its engine exploded, and his misadventures in skydiving (“…and I’m plummeting toward Earth”). No, I won’t become a member of the Pussy Posse (ew), Leo. It’s too dangerous.
(Via Wired)
