Nevertheless, a million dollars is still a million dollars.
Leo has made 8 movies for over $20 million apiece, plus one ( Inception) in 2010 that netted him in excess of $59 million. I suppose it could be argued that the size of any gift is relative to the wealth of the donor. Concerned about the environment and humanitarian issues, he donated $1,000,000 to earthquake relief in 2010, as well as another million to the Wildlife Conservation Society for tiger conservation. It is 104 acres and named Blackadore Caye. In 2005, he purchased his own island off the coast of Belize for $1.75 million US. The shots may have been taken illicitly before he hit the big time. Naked shots of Pitt cavorting with his then girlfriend Gwyneth Paltrow had already been published before the judge forbade any more copies being sent out. There was a difference in the two suits, however. A judge ruled in Leo’s favor, much as another judge had ruled for Brad Pitt a couple of years earlier against the same magazine.
In 1998 he successfully sued Playgirl Magazine over a spread of full frontal nudes of him that the editor intended publishing.
He has remained one of the world’s top movie stars since then, but at the cost of his privacy.
He then cemented his spot at the top of the heart-throb pile by making Titanic in 1997, the biggest grossing movie ever to that time. If anyone ever asks you who gave Leo his first on-screen kiss you will probably ‘scoop the pool’ if you answer (correctly) David Thewlis in 1995’s Total Eclipse.Ī year later Leo became a household name as youngsters, particularly teenage girls, flocked to drool over him in Baz Luhrmann’s over-rated Romeo and Juliet.
Consequently, he soon found himself playing a youth with mental issues in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), and a drug addict in The Basketball Diaries (1995), both to critical acclaim. He never avoided any of the more difficult acting tasks. One thing can be said for Leonardo DiCaprio right from the outset. Or something like that.Ī really brief stint in TV’s Growing Pains followed (the series folded just after he joined the cast), but it brought him recognition and the opportunity to audition for some challenging roles. Well, as somebody once said (or sang) – out of little things big things grow. One would have to assume the answer to that question would be a resounding ‘no’, given that Leonardo DiCaprio was as ordinary as everyone else in the thing.
I wonder if any of the non-entities who comprised the cast of the woeful 1991 low budget horror feature Critters 3 entertained any suspicions that the 17 year-old who made his movie debut playing the part of Josh in it would go on to become an icon in the movie business. CANNES, FRANCE - MAY 19: Actor / writer Leonardo DiCaprio attends a photocall for the documentary "The 11th Hour" at the Palais des Festivals during the 60th International Cannes Film Festival on in Cannes, France.