Leonardo DiCaprio (Los Angeles, 51 years old) is called to leave the year 2025 through the front door. Firstly, when he was nominated for a Golden Globe in the Best Actor category for his role in the film One battle after another. Secondly, because he was just named Artist of the Year by the magazine Timewhich chose him precisely because of his role in the aforementioned title, as well as his extensive career, of which the publication highlights roles “of extraordinary complexity and emotional subtlety, exploring different visions of adult masculinity.”
In an interview with American magazine, which named him one of their Characters of the Year – they choose one every December from highlights of current events, politics or culture -, The actor spoke about some aspects of his life and profession. between them about what their connection to fame is. According to DiCaprio, his philosophy began decades later in the spotlight of cinema and entertainment – it began in the 1990s with television roles like the one in the series Growing pains– Is Dose your public appearances.
About how to navigate the “troubled waters” of success and protect your privacy as a public figure, the protagonist of He eithergovern confessed Time: “It was a balance that I have mastered throughout my adult life.” And he added: “Still, I’m no expert. I think my simple philosophy is to only appear in public when I have something to say or teach. If not, I just disappear as often as I can.”
Although he admits that his initial success in Titanic When he gave him freedom, he also realizes that the effect was so strong that he assumed people were fed up with him and started thinking about how he could stay in the job he wanted: “I thought: How can I have a long career? Because I love what I do and I think the best way to do this is to get out of people’s sight. he explained during the interview, in which he talked about the organization in addition to the important things in his life Subject: Wildwhich he joined in 2021 and which works with indigenous peoples and local communities to preserve and protect ecosystems: “It was alarming 10 years ago, and now we’re basically at a tipping point. Everything that scientists predicted is happening almost like clockwork,” he noted, referencing the massive wildfires the world has experienced in recent years, including his hometown of Los Angeles, California.
DiCaprio received the nomination this Monday at the next Golden Globes, the film and television awards of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which will take place on January 11, 2026, thanks to his role as an activist who returns to the fight in the film Director Paul Thomas Anderson One battle after another, came out last September and received nine nominations in addition to the actor’s nominations. About her, Time points out that while the film didn’t have a big opening at the box office, it ultimately proved to be a huge success, grossing more than $200 million worldwide in mid-November. The interpreter explained in dialogue with the magazine Timewhat was “Risk for the studio to bet on this film” However, they were attracted by the “striking originality” of the project. “I’ve been thinking a lot about how rarely ideas for truly original stories like this come about, with no connection to the story, no pre-existing characters, no defined genre, no vampires, no ghosts, no anything,” he added.
For the magazine, DiCaprio managed to “build a career that many of his colleagues would envy.” Since the first film that caught the industry’s attention, My life as a son (1993) and the titles with which it took off, Romeo and Juliet (1996) and Titanic (1997), the actor has seven Oscar nominations to his name, which he ultimately won in the Best Actor category The revenant (2015). Aside from that, Time emphasized the relevance of his media figure: “Hollywood knew what it had: DiCaprio was offered a sum of money that would have changed his life to appear in the Disney comedy.” Hocus pocusInstead, he played a mentally disabled teenager in Lasse Hallström’s original and deeply realistic drama. Who does Gilbert Grape love? (1993)”.
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