Walking Pork Chop Leo Diddy Caps
is still moaning about being too popular after Titanic …
Leonardo DiCaprio wanted to give up acting for a time after the hit movie “Titanic.”
DiCaprio was back to being considered a “another piece of cute meat” after the 1997 film’s spectacular box office success, an image he had wanted to get away after his days on the cover of teen magazines, he told Newsweek for editions on newsstands Monday. “It was pretty disheartening to be objectified like that. I wanted to stop acting for a little bit,” he said at the magazine’s Oscar panel discussion with other actors. “It changed my life in a lot of ways, but at the same time, I can’t say that it didn’t give me opportunities. It made me, for the first time, in control of my career.”
After many successful movies and critical acclaim, DiCaprio said he loves acting.
“There’s no other art form in the world that affects me more. There’s nothing that I walk away from feeling transformed by the way I do with cinema,” he said.
Poor Leo … thrown back to his days as floppy haired teen idol by the success of Titanic and still whining about it ten years later. He really didn’t need to worry for long about his days as “cute meat” they were very short indeed — as all the press coverage shortly after was about how tubby he was … fatty meat got a lot of good PR around the Atkins diet, but I don’t think Tiger Beat was ever promoting chubby chasing as an adolescent pastime.
While he seems to have yo-yo-ed up and down since the Titanic days – I have to say the cute meat seems to have finally settled on his swollen looking face. He always looks like an angry baby with a sort of Christian Slater toupee whacked on top. I suppose having to wear a Christian Slater toupee would anger most babies – but you get my general point. There may even have been teen-idol cheekbones there once – now it’s a sort of angry ferret face under… I guess all that objectification can get a brother down.
Still fat and sassy as he is DiCaprio really does seems to have his career sorted. Scorcese has clearly adopted him as a combination muse and leading man. After The Departed they are now slated to do a fourth picture together … this time a Teddy Roosevelt bio-pic … maybe that fat face is just a swelled head from all the prestige pics he’s racking up on his Scorcese rich resume.
Would he rather be a broke nobody right now?
He looks good! I don’t think there’s anything fat about him.
Geez do you see Kate Winslet whining about Titanic?
Several points at once:
1. To those who don’t see the fat, two words for you: double chin.
2. But I can see that the extra weight is a calculated decision to not look boyish. Fair enough.
3. This does kind of make his alleged comments about Orlando Bloom, while still left-field, a little more likely.
4. Why doesn’t he just gain muscle mass?
5. I really thought Romeo and Juliet made him more of a boy-idol than Titantic seeing as it was the reason he got cast in Titanic. (Cameron wanted Clare Danes but grudgingly settled for Kate Winslet instead.)
6. If you want people to forget Titanic, Leo, it’s called making memorable films, and creating interesting characters.
7. Get over it, most actors have been through that tricky ‘cute meat’ transition phase: Johnny Depp, Tom Cruise, Keanu Reeves, Brad Pitt, Will Smith, even Clint Eastwood back in the day, etc. And they all got through it by just doing more work until something better lodged in the public’s memory.
I’m not all that sympathetic. Afterall he could always stfu and direct or produce, or hell, join the army, but stop whining. Really.
Him and Renee Zellweger should date.
Good point about Kate Winslet, FF. She never had a diva fit over her popularity though it’s probably Leo who got the fangurls following him more. I don’t find him all that attractive and I think he’s a bit overrated as an actor as well. He is surely talented (fantastic in Gilbert Grape, years ago) but he’s no Jack Nicholson, at least I don’t see it, and he’s not going to age well. Scorsese seems unable to make a movie without him, which is slightly annoying.
He should have looked fatter in these pics to justify the rant … it’s annoying if him … but then black is slimming and his head still remains hydroencephaleptic …
He’s got the same problem as Justin Timberlake; they are so baby-faced that when they try to be sexy, they just seem like your best friend in high school’s precociously sexual little brother who was always staring at your chest and trying to geet panty peeps at slumber parties. I just can’t buy them as fully mature, and because I’m no LeTurneau, I can’t deal.
I love that we got Mary Kate LeTourneau into the mix … I suppose shes the woman who was built to love an angry faced baby … she was just in the wrong part of town when Leo was passing by … in an earlier generation she could have been one of the Mrs. Mickey Rooneys
Yup, he’s a porker.
kailie2, eventhough Kate Winslet didn’t get the screaming fangirls, what she did get was heaps of criticism of her weight. Even from the broadsheets.
Last I observed, she’d gotten over it.
and we all know that Kate is just lovely … but Leo is bloated … his heart will go on … to a pork heavy brunch and a side of fries
I’m pretty indifferent, but so? He’s mentioned it a total of two times. And they’re quotes from interviews, so he was probably responding to a question. It probably doesn’t linger on his mind as much as Celebitchy would like us to believe.
I think he looks good, I cant stand skinny men.
How about you all shut up and do something meaningful with your lives? Friggin’ gossip mongers are like cows in the pasture, chewing on others’ udders and then bitching about the taste. You need to drop your mighty feather pens and go out into the sunlight and be someone who doesn’t rely on the failures of has-been actors to feign your own sense of identity.