Leonardo DiCaprio on whether he wants kids: If it happens, it happens

Posted by Valeria Galgano on Wednesday, May 15, 2024

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Neck beard aside, this is actually a really great cover for Leonardo DiCaprio. He looks young and slim and de-carbed. His hair looks great. You might even say he’s giving good smolder-face. The problem might be that Leo has to share the cover with Sean Penn and El Chapo. Poor Leo! How will he ever win the Oscar if we’re too busy rolling our eyes at Sean Penn?! RS hasn’t released the full interview yet, but their preview is already making me chuckle and roll my eyes. LaineyGossip said on Monday that Leo and The Revenant team are trying to rebrand the film for OSCAH! The message used to be a singular story about a dude in the woods, battling everything that’s thrown at him. Now The Revenant is being sold as a message-movie. A movie about Native Americans. A movie about the environment. Leo tries to pay lip service to this idea in the Rolling Stone piece when he actually says that people should see The Revenant because the climate change wreaked havoc on the production, basically. Anyway, you can read Leo’s interview highlights here. Some assorted quotes:

On middle school: “I was a bit of a loudmouth, and I was in an environment where the elements aligned to have kids smack the hell outta me once in a while.”

He wants to go even darker for his next film role: “I would love to do something even darker [than The Revenant]. I don’t know, like how would you penetrate the mind of somebody like Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver? There’s a word in German … schadenfreude. It means humiliation for somebody else, and it can be done in movies, like when Bickle takes [Cybill Shepherd] to the porno theater for his first date. You’re like, ‘Oh, God, please don’t do this!'”

He was asked about babies after he “cooed” over a little girl at a restaurant: “Do you mean do I want to bring children into a world like this? If it happens, it happens.” Then the actor takes the Fifth. “I’d prefer not to get into specifics about it, just because then it becomes something that is misquoted. But yeah. I don’t know. To articulate how I feel about it is just gonna be misunderstood.”

Whether women are interested in Boy Drama In the Woods: “I think it’s silly, and I think that the women I’ve spoken to really enjoyed the movie.”

Whether he wants that Oscar: “Sure, everyone likes to be recognized, but that’s out of my hands—other people control those things. I will say it would help the film, bring it to more people.”

[From E! News & Rolling Stone]

Can you picture Leo cooing over a little girl? I cannot. But that just proves that he will do anything for an Oscar. He will come to your house and kiss your baby. He will pay a child actor to stand by during his interview so he can feign interest. He will even pretend to want children. He will even pretend to find children coo-able. I’m remembering that some of the dudes in Leo’s Posse are fathers now, and I remember seeing photos of Leo hanging out with Tobey Maguire and Tobey’s kids. What is Uncle Leo like? Is he the dodgy uncle who tells his friends’ kids to get him another beer?

I would also love to know the identities of all of these women that Leo has talked to about The Revenant. Are we talking about the 21-year-old model-wannabes at the club? “Hey baby, what did you think of The Revenant? Did it bother you that there were no speaking roles for women?” “Um, I loved it, it was super!” *hair twirl*

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Photos courtesy of Mark Seliger/Rolling Stone.


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