DiCaprio was 19 when this was made??
WTF, he looks 14 or 15.
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Leonardo has always looked younger than he really was. I'm 24 and get mistaken for a girl/young teen all the time.
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Yeah, he looked way younger in this movie than he actually was. He was just a late bloomer that's all. IMHO he really looked amazing in the Titanic movie, so handsome!!! But, I have to admit this older Leo is very attractive too!
I am 24 going on 25 and people think I really look 16-18 years old. It can get annoying especially when I'm in a bar, buying booze, etc. But, then I look at the people who I graduated high school with and the majority of them look like they are 30-35 and have wrinkles all over their face, dark spots under their eyes, etc.
LOL, I'd rather look younger than I am then look older, that's for sure.
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I'm not surprised. He has a youthful look. I am 23 and often mistaken for 14-15.
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That's how old he was when the movie was released. They said he grew a couple inches while filming, so I'm assuming the movie was filmed a few years before it was actually released. So he was probably around 16 when they started filming.
shareI was a teen in the 90's and I remember thinking even back then that Leo looked very young. I remember in high school people joking about how The Man in the Iron Mask should have been called The Boy in the Iron Mask. Hehehehe. He was too "pretty" for me to have a crush on, but now he's more rugged and IMO better looking. :)
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Well, probably 18 but certainly going-on 19.
Still, I can hardly believe it either looking back. Looks about 12/13.
Just look at him now, though. Oh yesh.
He was 15 when he was cast for the movie and 16/17 when it was filmed. See his quote about how he got the part:
"When I was fifteen, I got this amazing opportunity to audition for this plum role opposite Robert De Niro and Ellen Barkin in This Boy's Life. Before that, it was The New Lassie or a Bubble Yum commercial. They were using the mustard-jar scene in the audition. De Niro was going up to the kids with this almost empty mustard jar and cramming it into their faces, really pushing the kids' buttons. The scene was being used to see if the kid could stand up to De Niro, and it was hard not to be overwhelmed. When he started bludgeoning me, I completely overcompensated. He said, "Is this empty? Is this empty?" I slapped the jar out of his hand, got right up in his face, and screamed at the top of my lungs, "Noooooooo!" It was the most god-awful way to do the scene. I was supposed to be the victim, not the antagonizer, and there was complete silence. De Niro looks at me and goes, "Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh", in that way only De Niro can laugh. "That was good. That was goooood. I like that. A little over-the-top but good". My audition was supposed to go on, but they just stopped it. Even though De Niro said he liked it, I left the room thinking, Oh, *beep* I'm a laughingstock. I'm buried. I'm done. Getting that part felt like winning the lottery. Sometimes you've got to go to the wrong place just to show that you're not afraid to go there."
In the interview, he said that he's was 15 when filming this movie.
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