Leonardo DiCaprio listens attentively to his director Alejandro G. Iñárritu at the set of “The Revenant,” the movie that paved way for him to win the elusive Academy Award. (Photo : FilmIsNow Movie Bloopers & Extras/YouTube)
Perhaps the celebration for winning, finally, an Oscar was over, and it’s back to business as usual for Leonardo DiCaprio, either as an actor or as an environmentalist.
Towering at 6 feet, a dapper DiCaprio greeted the Chinese media and fans in Beijing on March 14 and promoted “The Revenant,” reported the Global Times.
Still single and a certified charmer at 43, the multi-awarded actor took the lead role in Academy Award-winner Mexican director-producer-screenwriter Alejandro G. Inárritu’s 2015 adventure-drama-thriller film.
Based from American author Michael Punke’s 2002 non-fiction novel of the same title, “The Revenant” opened in the country on March 18 and earned some $30 million in three days, according to Shanghaiist.
During the press conference, DiCaprio also took the chance to remind the important role of China in making a difference in the world in terms of doing something about climate change, according to The Guardian.
Born Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio in Los Angeles, California, from a German-native mother, he almost took the screen name Lenny Williams when an agent suggested it “to improve his appeal,” according to Biography.com.
Coming from a broken family, such personal tragedy didn’t break a part of him that was raring to act.
Like many newbies in the show biz circuit, DiCaprio got his initial break via television. He made guest appearances beginning the early '90s.
In a span of more than two decades, a long list of Hollywood’s legendary stars worked with DiCaprio.
Meryl Streep and Diane Keaton looked after him as his mother and aunt, respectively, in Jerry Zaks’ 1996 drama, “Marvin's Room.”
Robert De Niro played his stepfather in Michael Caton-Jones’s 1993 coming of age film, “This Boy's Life.”
Jeremy Irons and John Malkovich saved his life in Randall Wallace’s 1998 action-drama, “The Man in the Iron Mask.”
Christopher Walken loved him as his father in “Catch Me If You Can,” where an FBI agent, played by no less than Tom Hanks, untiringly chases him.
Other Hollywood luminaries who acted opposite DiCaprio comprised Russell Crowe, Matt Damon, Johnny Depp, Matthew McConaughey, real-life friend Tobey Maguire and Mark Wahlberg.
Some of the most stunning celebrities also shared the screen with him: Jennifer Connelly, Cameron Diaz, Sharon Stone, Kerry Washington and Naomi Watts.
Claire Danes fell for him in Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 romantic drama, “Romeo + Juliet.”
Kate Winslet abandoned the idea of jumping from a ship because of DiCaprio in James Cameron’s 1997 disaster film, “Titanic.”
DiCaprio and Winslet reunited in Sam Mendes’s 2008 romantic drama, “Revolutionary Road.”
Among the prominent directors who worked with DiCaprio included Christopher Nolan (“Inception,” 2010), Sam Raimi (“The Quick and the Dead,” 1995), Ridley Scott (“Body of Lies,” 2008), Steven Spielberg (“Catch Me If You Can,” 2002) and Quentin Tarantino (“Django Unchained,” 2012).
American director Martin Scorsese shared long hours with DiCaprio on the set of “The Wolf of Wall Street” (2013), “Shutter Island” (2010), “The Departed” (2006) and “Gangs of New York” (2002).
Hollywood’s living legend, actor-director-producer Clint Eastwood also directed him in the 2011 drama, “J. Edgar.”
On the personal side, with his looks, DiCaprio appears not to have difficulty pursuing women.
He dated some of those long-legged runway beauties regular guys get only to see in magazine covers: Brazilian Gisele Bundchen, German Toni Garrn, American Erin Heatherton and Israeli Bar Refaeli.
Once upon a time “Gossip Girl” lead star Blake Lively and DiCaprio sizzled together in a summer romance.
Rumors piled up about him and Barbadian singer-songwriter Rihanna acting like love birds.
Will DiCaprio ever date an Asian? When will he probably settle down?
The world awaits his next move, career-related or otherwise.
