Leonardo DiCaprio revealed he was drawn to acting as a child to escape his neighbourhood. Inspired by his stepbrother, he auditioned for commercials, slicked back his hair for roles, and began his career with projects like Mickey’s Safety Club and The Outsiders
Leonardo DiCaprio. Pic/AFP
The award-winning film star Leonardo DiCaprio developed an interest in acting because he says he wanted to “get out of [his] neighbourhood”.
Speaking to Jennifer Lawrence in an interview, DiCaprio said, “I think a lot of my propulsion to want to act as a kid was to get out of my neighbourhood. My stepbrother did a lot of commercials. I was like, ‘Wait a minute, you can get paid to do that? I got to get out of this place.’ I was [our] stage mom, pushing my parents to take me on auditions. I told them, ‘This is going to be my college fund to get me money to try to have some sort of career in something.’ I didn’t book anything for a while.”
He added, “I got a Matchbox car commercial where I played a gangster with slicked back hair. I had a briefcase and I opened it up.”
Asked if he went to the audition looking like a gangster, DiCaprio replied, “Yes. I slicked back my hair and put on a leather jacket. I booked Mickey’s Safety Club, too. An after-school special thing where you teach kids the dangers of drugs. My first television show was The Outsiders [1983]. There’s my whole filmography.”
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‘The Outsiders’ was Leonardo DiCaprio’s first TV show
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