Summary
Martin Scorsese reflects on Leonardo DiCaprio’s growth as an actor over the course of their 21-year span of collaborations. While DiCaprio has worked with a number of filmmakers over the course of his long and successful career, Scorsese is now his most frequent collaborator, with the pair having worked together on movies like Gangs of New York, The Departed, and The Wolf of Wall Street, among others.
Now, ahead of the release date for their next collaboration, Killers of the Flower Moon, Scorsese reflects on DiCaprio’s journey as an actor across their many films together in a recent interview with ET. The filmmaker shares kind words about the actor, praising his bravery and evolution as a performer. Check out Scorsese’s full comment below:
“He has range. He keeps growing. He also has a lot of courage. I know he’ll go to places that other people might pull back from… I’ve been working with him over the years he’s been growing as a person. He’s maturing from a young kid to a young man. As he changes in life, he’s changing on film.”
Scorsese & DiCaprio’s Collaborations Explained
The pair first collaborated on 2002’s Gangs of New York, with DiCaprio playing Amsterdam, the son of a slain preacher seeking revenge against his father’s killer. DiCaprio was already a fairly big star at this point, having appeared in 1997’s Titanic, and the Scorsese flick reaffirmed his talent as an actor. While Daniel Day-Lewis gets the scene-stealing role in the movie, DiCaprio’s next collaboration with Scorsese would see him take center stage.
2004’s The Aviator features DiCaprio as Howard Hughes, with a story that charts the figure’s life from the 1920s to the 1940s. Clearly now finding a rhythm together, Scorsese and DiCaprio would collaborate once more on 2006’s The Departed, which is the first time the two worked together on a non-period piece movie. Both of these early 2000s collaborations were critically-acclaimed, and it wasn’t long before the pair reunited once more.
Shutter Island in 2010 is perhaps the darkest movie the duo has made together, but the film, while earning positive reviews, is generally considered a lesser Scorsese work. Their next collaboration, however, made a big splash, with 2013’s The Wolf of Wall Street becoming a critical and commercial success. After Killers of the Flower Moon, it’s less clear what the future holds, but DiCaprio and Scorsese may well reunite for The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder in the next few years if schedules align.
Source: ET
