Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro’s Conflicts on Set: Martin Scorsese Reveals the Troubles in ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’

New York – Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro They’ve been working together on set for thirty years, but something went wrong this time. DiCaprio’s obsession with perfection ended up irritating De Niro, to the point that the director, Martin Scorsese, had to intervene. It was the director of the film himself who told it in an interview with Wall Street Journalpresenting Killers of the flower moonjust released in cinemas.

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“It was a never-ending, never-ending, never-ending thing – confessed Scorsese, referring to the discussions with DiCaprio – at a certain point De Niro didn’t want to talk anymore, Bob and I often looked at each other and rolled our eyes”.

The story takes place in Oklahoma in the 1920s: members of the Osage native community discover that oil is hidden under their land and this makes them the richest people in the world, but also brings a trail of mysterious crimes.

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DiCaprio had been chosen for the role of Tom White, the good guy in the storythe investigator of the newly formed FBI, but the actor managed to convince the director to entrust him with the role of “bad guy”, Ernest Burkharta veteran of the Great War, an unscrupulous guy who seduces Mollie, a young Osage native.

There are many different styles of acting, but improvisation is considered the key moment in which great actors stand out from the rest. DiCaprio is considered a phenomenon, but he had another phenomenon in front of him and this, instead of simplifying things, complicated everything. The two have known each other since ’93, when De Niro starred with a very young DiCaprio in Want to start again, directed by Michael Caton-Jones. And the director of the latest film, Scorsese, has worked with the actor on six other productions, since Gangs of New York a The Wolf of Wall Street.

Ironically, it was De Niro himself who convinced Scorsese to cast DiCaprio in Killers. But once on set the relationship between the two stars would have boiled over: DiCaprio’s constant requests to readjust the scene, change the lines, ask questions about the meaning of the scene, made De Niro angry. The first had already intervened to change the script. “After having worked on the story for two years – Scorsese told The Irish Times – Leo came to me and asked me where the heart of the story was.” “I – he continued – had spent evenings with the Osage and I thought, ‘well, there is history’”. Director and screenwriter Eric Roth had already extensively adapted David Grann’s book which inspired the film. Scorsese worked on Killers for six years.

2023-10-21 09:59:59
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