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Leonardo DiCaprio on "Agonizing" 'Revenant' Shoot: I Was "Sleeping in
Animal Carcasses"

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Leonardo DiCaprio on "Agonizing" 'Revenant' Shoot: I Was "Sleeping in
Animal Carcasses"
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Leonardo DiCaprio is not looking to curl up inside an animal carcass again
anytime soon.

The actor told Yahoo Movies
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that the shoot for director Alejandro G. Inarritu's upcoming film The
Revenant involved "some of the most difficult things I've ever had to do in
my entire career."

"I can name 30 or 40 sequences that were some of the most difficult things
I've ever had to do," admitted DiCaprio, who plays a 19th century explorer
in the Western. "Whether it's going in and out of frozen rivers, or
sleeping in animal carcasses, or what I ate on set. [I was] enduring
freezing cold and possible hypothermia constantly."

"I certainly don't eat raw bison liver on a regular basis," he continued.
"When you see the movie, you'll see my reaction to it because Alejandro
kept it in. It says it all. It was an instinctive reaction."

A key plot point involves his character's encounter with a bear, which
required some cinematic magic but still was not easy to execute.

"I'm not going to give any specifics on how we did it - you'll figure it
out on your own," DiCaprio said. "But I will tell you it involved cables,
it involved me flying around the forest and it involved a tremendous amount
of rehearsal. And it was pretty agonizing to do."

DiCaprio addressed sources having said that there was substantial turnover
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among the crew due to individuals quitting and getting fired. He called the
project "incredibly ambitious" and said Inarritu was "incredibly specific,"
which led to "departments that didn't agree or departments that didn't work
correctly with the situation."

"I wasn't privy to exactly what went on," the actor said. "But to me, most
of the people were there working incredibly hard, and they should be given
due credit for the effort they gave this movie. Because everyone I saw was
giving their heart and soul to pursuing his vision."

The Revenant, co-starring Tom Hardy and Will Poulter, hits theaters Dec. 25.


Eric D. Schwerin
eschwerin@rosemontseneca.com

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