Leo's Pranks
......from
people who'd know...
On the Set of Titanic:
(from Rolling Stone Magazine)
"Grossing Kate
out was purely Leo's job," says Billy Zane. "He got really good at it.
If he wasn't rolling back his eyelids, he was making objets d'art out of
bodily fluids." Cameron recalls that Dicaprio had to wear a long coat for
much of the shoot. "He would, like fart in it," says Cameron, "and then
sweep the coat over her face. I mean, if anybody else in the world did
that, they'd get slapped, and the other person would walk away and not
talk to them for a week. With Leo, Kate would just crack up."
He amused himself in between
scenes by hitting people over the head with twizzlers.
On the last day of shooting
Titanic he dumped a bucket of ice water over James Cameron's head.
Kate Winslet on Leo's prankster side:
"What a fruitcake he might
appear to be sometimes, if he's gearing up to get into a scene, or when
he's actually being a part of such a scene. And I'm really like that as
well. And to me it was such a relief to find that he was my soul mate as
an actor. Sometimes he would talk in stupid voices. Just act like a complete
goof, like a child sometimes, things like that -- usually just kind of
keeping his energy up, by jumping all over the place and all of that kind
of thing. A lot of actors do that, but Leo's quite loud about it."
As she goes on to reminisce
about some pranks DiCaprio played on her, Winslet at one point lets out
an uproarious, foot-stomping whoop. Which is when I notice
her feet. Which are mighty.
I ask her teasingly whether she ever regrets that her feet weren't bound
at birth, and she chortles, "No, I'm glad I've got big huge
flappers. Leo used to
laugh at my feet all the time, going, 'Fuck, man! Look at those things!'
The other day we were having our makeup done for a photo shoot, and
he said, 'Shit, I haven't
seen those things for awhile.' We used to swap shoes all the time because
we have the same size feet."
"We were goofy kids on
set. He'd be tickling and groping me. And I would sort of grab his bum."
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