'Don't look up': Leonardo DiCaprio was against Meryl Streep's bare
'Don't Look Up' is the new Netflix original film that reunited Meryl Streep and Leonardo DiCaprio in a comedy with apocalyptic touches, in which Jennifer Lawrence, Jonah Hill and Timotheé Chalamet also participate.
What do you think of when we say that a movie stars Meryl Streep, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Jonah Hill, and Timothée Chalamet? Probably in one of the biggest and most serious productions of the moment. It's not every day that a dream team like this gets together and Don't Look Up they succeeded, although yes, it is an apocalyptic comedy that will hit the Netflix catalog on December 24 and, without a doubt, could become one of the best productions to see on the platform.
It all begins when astronomy student Kate Dibiasky (Lawrence) and her professor, Dr. Randall Mindy (DiCaprio), discover a gigantic asteroid orbiting within the solar system. This brings up some problems: it is about to collide with Earth and no one seems to care. Although they decide to alert the world, they come across all kinds of thoughts and situations that, incidentally, will make you double over with laughter.
And although it seems a bit difficult to consider, there was a time when Leonardo DiCaprio turned against his director, Adam McKay, due to a scene in which Streep's character, President Orlean, had to walk completely naked for a few seconds. Although the moment he made the final cut was actually taken by a body double, just imagining Meryl in this situation upset the Oscar winner for The Revenant.
"Yeah, he's a body double. But do you know who had a problem with that? Leo. Leo only sees Meryl as movie royalty ... although royalty may not be a compliment, but such a special figure in the history of cinema, "McKay mentioned in an interview with The Guardian. "He didn't like seeing her with the tattoo on her lower back, walking around naked for a second."
The director of titles such as The Vice President: Beyond Power and The Great Bet, also assured that Leo questioned this decision-making, which even led McKay to defend his position and, incidentally, this moment of the script itself of the. "He said something to me like, 'Do you really need to show that?' And I said, 'She is President Orlean; she is not Meryl Streep,' "he said.
And when asked what Meryl Streep thought at the time, the director made it clear that she wasn't even flinched and didn't care. "But she didn't even blink. She didn't even bring it up," so it was a completely personal upset on the part of DiCaprio, who couldn't prevent it from being filmed as planned, but he did leave a curious anecdote, especially as it is a comedy produced by Netflix.
Considering that Streep is one of the most important actresses in the history of the seventh art; And also, that the first time they shared a set was in the 1996 film Marvin's Room, where by the way, Meryl played Leonardo's mother in this drama, it is likely that this is one of the reasons why the veteran The interpreter decided to protect the image of his co-star at all costs. Do you think Leonardo was right or was he simply exaggerating?
