The fact Leonardo DiCaprio has a thing for playing eminent players in modern history shouldn’t come as a surprise. FBI Director J Edgar Hoover, absolute genius/madman Howard Hughes, even the original troll Frank Abagnale have been DiCaprified in Leo’s long, thus far fruitless slog for an Academy Award statuette.
His fortunes may be changing, ’cause he might have worked out his problem: none of those characters are Russian enough.
- He’s prepared. His latest turn in The Revenant is as stereotypically Russian as you can get this side of Vladivostok: snow, misery, fighting off bears, the works.
- The two are actually kinda bros. Both of them are down with protecting the habitat of endangered Siberian tigers, with Vlad the Lad even going so far to say Leo was a “real man” about it.
@BobbyMageroski Leonardo did claim his on side grandparents to be Russian https://t.co/ODdWfkngYv
— Bobstar (@BobbyMageroski) January 16, 2016
- The internet just found this guy:
Someone found Leo’s half-brother in the Russian Armed Forces.(Credit: Twitter / @EnglishRussia1).
Posted by pedestrian.tv on Thursday, 14 January 2016
He also said playing Vladimir Lenin (who he actually resembles) or the batshit insane warlock Rasputin would also be pretty decent roles too, and we can’t disagree.
Excuse us while we re-imagine Titanic’s Jack as Boris, who survives the freezing waters out of spite, only to lose the Oscar to that bloody iceberg.
Source: Welt Am Sonntag / International Business Times.
Photo: Franco Origlio / Getty.