“I am screaming”: $300M Rich Leonardo DiCaprio Was Fired for Being Excited About an Acting Job
One of the best performers in the business, Leonardo DiCaprio, has appeared on the annual list of highest-paid actors a few times. In a poll conducted by Empire in 2022, readers selected the actor as one of the fifty greatest performers of all time. The actor garnered a significant fanbase after playing Jack Dawson in Titanic.
In 1993’s The Boy’s Life, the actor played Tobias Wolff, a part for which he won praise from both the public and critics. With his role as Gilbert Grape in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, DiCaprio received his first nominations for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe. However, did you know that the actor was fired from his first position as an actor?
Leonardo DiCaprio says he was ‘fired’ from Romper Room
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio was five years old when his mother got him an acting job in the 1953 children’s TV show; Romper Room which ran till 1994 and was created for preschoolers and featured kids aged 4-to 6 years who played games, sang songs, and, of course, learned lessons from the hostess.
DiCaprio shared with Deadline via CheatSheet,
“I have very faint memories of it, but I remember my stepbrother dabbled in acting when he was young. Romper Room was the big hit show, and there I was. I remember running up to the camera, looking into it, and slapping it. They had to sit me down multiple times. And when the host said, ‘Hey, kids, it’s story time,’ I am screaming, at the top of my voice, ‘Yeaaah!’ And then they fired me. I’m afraid I deserved it. They had to kick me out.”
The actor had revealed during a conversation with Interview Magazine that his parents were very supportive of his dream of being an actor and it was his mother who got him a part on the show.
Explaining the situation on the show, DiCaprio noted,
“They couldn’t control me. I would run up and smack the camera, and I’d jump around and do my little flips and routines. I wish I could get that tape now. But I have other memories too.”
The actor had mentioned that it was one of his favorite shows.
Leonardo DiCaprio to star in Martin Scorsese’s next
After working on their latest movie Killers of the Flower Moon, the dynamic duo Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio will once again collaborate for The Wager, which is going to be a historical drama. The Wager is an adaptation of David Grann’s novel; The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder.
The movie is going to recount the story of survivors of a shipwreck who are accused by three men of mutineering on their ship after they returned home six months later. The collaboration between the director and the actor for The Wager is going to be their eighth collaboration.
Killers of the Flower Moon is all set to release on October 20th in theatres and will premiere on Apple TV+ in November. The movie premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and received a nine-minute standing ovation from the audience.
Is Killers of The Flower Moon Leonardo DiCaprio’s best performance?
Thelma Schoonmaker, editor of Killers of The Flower Moon spoke to GamesRadar+ recently where she said that the actor had given his best performance in the movie. She said,
“Leo – I think really this time he’s done his best work, given his best performance. Marty called me from the set to take one of him get on the stand – he told me we are just going to run it like that with no cuts to anybody else, except for one to the prosecutor.”
She also added Robert De Niro who plays real-life figure William King Hale in the movie, noting that his performance in the movie is also top-notch, adding that he was great in The Irishman but with this one, he has just found a way to do it that’s interesting.
Killers of The Flower Moon is going to premiere on October 20th in theatres before streaming on Apple TV+ in November.
