Leonardo DiCaprio just lately opened up on why he’ll by no means step behind the digicam and direct a film.
Why received’t Leonardo DiCaprio direct a film?
In a latest profile for Esquire that noticed director Paul Thomas Anderson and DiCaprio interviewing each other, the pair mentioned the late Adam Somner, a primary assistant director that labored beneath a number of administrators, together with Anderson, previous to his passing in 2024.
In keeping with DiCaprio, watching administrators like Anderson and Martin Scorsese work with so many alternative folks confirmed him why he doesn’t have the “urge” to do it himself.
“There was no person like him. The truth that this man would simply go to the utmost extremes to one way or the other convey every thing into order was probably the most magical issues I might see in my entire profession,” stated DiCaprio. “And he labored with the best administrators on this planet, they usually trusted him. It allowed me to observe you or any person like a Marty juggle so many alternative departments with so many alternative questions, which is why I don’t have a robust urge to direct.
“As a result of I’m simply attempting to determine what is that this line going to be. I might go right into a spiraling vortex for hours about the right way to say that line. I do know we get emotional speaking about him, however there was simply completely nobody higher.”
Whereas DiCaprio has no need to direct himself, he’ll probably proceed working with a few of the highest. His subsequent position is in Anderson’s movie One Battle After One other, which is ready to launch on September 26, 2025.
(Supply: Esquire)
