SHORT INTERVIEW WITH LEO ABOUT BODY OF LIES AND REVOLUTIONARY ROAD

US Magazine October 20, 2008

LEO’S MOVIE REUNIONS
Two new DiCaprio dramas will have fans experiencing deja vu
For Body of Lies, DiCaprio did most of his own stunts-and learned Arabic!


Talk about flip-flopping! For Leonardo DiCaprio, back-to-back gigs playing a 1950’s suburbanite (in December’s Revolutionary Road) and a CIA spy (in Body of Lies, out October 10) couldn’t be more different-or difficult. What came easy? Reuniting with past costars. DiCaprio, 33, teamed up with onetime Titanic love Kate Winslet for Road, and stars in Lies with Russell Crowe, with whom he worked on The Quick and the Dead when he was 19. (Jokes the Aussie of Leo: “Now he can drink legally, and he’s no longer a virgin!”) The three-time Oscar nominee talks about his political thriller-and politics-with Us.


YOU SHOT BOTH FILMS IN RAPID SUCCESSION. HOW WAS THAT?
It was a bizarre transition: going from talking about our feelings for months at a time to winding up in Morocco with missiles being shot at me.


IN LIES, YOUR CHARACTER IS TORTURED
I actually got sick for three days afterward because there was so much intensity put into that scene.


HOW WAS REUNITING WITH KATE?
We’ve known each other since we were almost teenagers, so we knew we could push each other’s buttons performance-wise.


ANY THOUGHTS ON THE ELECTION?
I want young people to go to the polls. They’ll dictate policy for the next 50 years, and it’s time that they start.


MARRIAGE MIX-UP?
DiCaprio’s romantic future? Unclear. He first told Parade, “I want to get married and have children.” But when the Associated Press asked if he’d thought about settling down, the actor-who has dated model Bar Refaeli, 23, on and off since 2006-stumbled: “How do you answer that?...No, I don’t have any plan.