{"id":115149,"date":"2023-01-07T00:16:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T18:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/they-offered-me-more-money-than-i-could-ever-dream-of-that-time-leonardo-dicaprio-said-no-to-disney\/"},"modified":"2023-01-07T00:16:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T18:46:03","slug":"they-offered-me-more-money-than-i-could-ever-dream-of-that-time-leonardo-dicaprio-said-no-to-disney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/they-offered-me-more-money-than-i-could-ever-dream-of-that-time-leonardo-dicaprio-said-no-to-disney\/","title":{"rendered":"“They offered me more money than I could ever dream of.” That time Leonardo DiCaprio said no to Disney"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The world of cinema often consists of being in the right place, at the right time. Sometimes a bad decision can sink your career. unless you are Leonardo DiCaprio, who was able to say no to Disney when he was still nobody in Hollywood<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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“I don’t know where I got the value from”<\/h2>\n

Although today we have Leonardo DiCaprio as one of the most famous stars in the world, with recent successes such as ‘Once upon a time… in Hollywood’, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ or ‘The Revenant’, it was not always so for the Californian actor.<\/p>\n

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Before rising to fame, DiCaprio had to push his way through small projects to get to where he is now. He began to take his first steps in the cinema at the age of 16<\/strong>, in series like ‘Sweet home…sometimes!’ or ‘The problems grow’ and in films like ‘Critters 3’ or ‘Life of this boy’.<\/p>\n

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After this last film, the young DiCaprio began to see more clearly that he wanted to make a living as an actor, when received a juicy proposal from the mammoth company<\/strong> behind hits like ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’, ‘The Little Mermaid’ or ‘Mary Poppins’.<\/p>\n

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The Walt Disney Company offered him “more money than I could ever dream of<\/strong>” to participate in the family classic ‘The return of the witches’ (‘Hocus Pocus’). Disney wanted DiCaprio for the role of young Max (who would eventually be played by Omri Katz).<\/p>\n

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Any first-time actor would have said yes with his eyes closed to the opportunity to participate in a project of the almighty Disney and, nevertheless, he decided to turn it down to star in ‘Who Loves Gilbert Grape’<\/strong>a more modest production:<\/p>\n

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I don’t know where the hell I got the value from. You live in an environment where you are constantly under the influence of people who tell you to make a lot of money and that you have to hit while the iron is hot. But, if I’m proud of anything, it’s of having been a kid capable of holding his ground.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What could have been the worst decision of his career, in the end, was the complete opposite. After the film co-starring Johnny Depp, would come hits like ‘William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet’, ‘The Man in the Iron Mask’ and, of course, ‘Titanic’.<\/p>\n

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DiCaprio can boast of having worked with Steven Spielberg, Clint Eastwood, James Cameron, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Baz Luhrman, Christopher Nolan<\/strong>… and having slammed the door into the mouse factory.<\/p>\n

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