Despite being one of the most talented and decorated actors in the industry, Leonardo DiCaprio allegedly had enough of Clint Eastwood after working with the legendary director only in one movie. DiCaprio worked with Clint Eastwood back in 2011 on the biographical drama movie, J. Edgar.
Leonardo DiCaprio allegedly got so frustrated with Clint Eastwood’s direction style that he also turned down an opportunity to star in A Star Was Born and decided to play the role of Calvin Candie instead in Quentin Tarantino’s, Django Unchained.
Leonardo DiCaprio got frustrated with Clint Eastwood’s direction style
Leonardo DiCaprio and the legendary director, Clint Eastwood collaborated to work together in the 2011 movie, J. Edgar which was b ased on the life of the Former Director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover. Eastwood is not the type of director who will film the same shot a number of times just to get it done perfectly. The Unforgiven director is really known for his ‘one-take‘ style and does not film retakes of scenes until absolutely necessary.
One such incident also took place on the set of J. Edgar when Leonardo DiCaprio requested a retake of a scene in the movie. However, according to Far Out Magazine,
“Eastwood instead announced the day as a wrap and walked off set, much to DiCaprio’s frustration.”
DiCaprio was allegedly so frustrated by this incident that he even decided to turn down a role in Eastwood’s A Star Was Born movie.
Armie Hammer allegedly also got frustrated with Clint Eastwood’s direction on J. Edgar
According to sources, Leonardo DiCaprio wasn’t the only star in J. Edgar who was frustrated with Clint Eastwood’s ‘one-take‘ direction style. Armie Hammers, who played the role of Clyde Tolson in the movie revealed that Eastwod’s direction style was difficult to work with.
According to sources, in one of the scenes, Hammer was allegedly reading from the script in his hand as he thought it was a rehearsal. However, Eastwood allegedly had the camera rolling and later said it was the first shot and revealed that he would edit out the script from the hand of Hammer.
Despite Leonardo DiCaprio’s incredible performance in the movie, J. Edgar still received some mixed responses from critics and fans all over the world. The movie still turned out to be a success at the box office though as it went on to gross almost $85 million against a production budget of $35 million.