Leonardo DiCaprio Talks About Unique Way Of Auditioning

Leonardo DiCaprio is one of the most successful actors in Hollywood and won his first Oscar for The Revenant in 2015. He won many hearts and rose fame in the business with his Jack Dawson character in Titanic in 1997.

Basically, DiCaprio has made his place in the business where he can work with any project of interest. However, when the actor began his acting career, he had an unorthodox way of giving audition for a specific role. The Oscar-winning actor disclosed about his audition with Robert DeNiro.

He started his acting career on television and now, known for performing in many different genres of movies. Although DiCaprio faced rejection many times because of his wrong haircut or didn’t get accepted simply because he was a breakdancer.

The actor mentioned in an interview, “But it really was me pushing my parents to give me some sort of way out of the world that I was in.” DiCaprio recalled after working in films that television was so different in terms of acting.

The actor talked about Growing Pains and said that on the sets of a sitcom, everyone is laughing, joking, hanging out and once the director yells "Action", then everyone focuses on the scene. DiCaprio got a chance to work in movies with 1993 release, This Boy’s Life.

The movie starred Ellen Barkin and DeNiro which was directed by Martin Scorsese. DiCaprio revealed that at the age of 15, he had seen all DeNiro and Scorsese movies even before stepping on their set.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood star said that he rented almost every VHS he could and watched sitting in his bedroom at that time. Once he arrived on the set, he learned directly from the legend DeNiro every day.

DiCaprio disclosed that DeNiro used to be extremely focused and serious on the set and sometimes he had to realize that even he is working on the scene to get his eyes off DeNiro. He remembered being a demure teenager as he was a wild child. The Wolf of Wall Street star explained the reason that he got the role because he was ballsy and outspoken.

In a sequence during the audition where DeNiro asked if the mustard jar was empty, DiCaprio went over the board and threw his chair and replied while screaming, “No, it’s not empty!” Probably, that's the reason everyone found him interesting on the set and got him back to play the part of Toby.