The most difficult film I have shot in my life. This is how Leonardo DiCaprio refers to The Revenant (The Revenant), the new film by Alejandro González Iñárritu who, after winning the Oscar last year with Birdman, once again aims for statuettes with this film filmed in extreme conditions.
This was stated by the actor during a special screening of the film at the Samuel Goldwyn Academy Theater in Beverly, where both the lead and the director chatted in a Q&A session about the grueling filmmaking process.
Iñárritu pointed out that the shoot was very complicated due to the low temperatures, sometimes below 30 degrees, adding: "The conditions were against us all the time." This was the environment where Dicaprio had to show mettle and his tables. "This is the most difficult film, I think, that any of us have ever made," added the actor.
Leonardo DiCaprio pointed out that it is a very simple linear narrative, but that they wanted to "find poetry" in the work of a man who follows the trail of the people who left him for dead. The actor said that the months of preparation were invaluable and assured that it was great to be able to talk about his role, especially since his character doesn't talk much. "It was almost like a silent movie performance," he noted.
Previously, the actor confessed to the media some of the difficulties he had to face during filming: "Entering or leaving frozen rivers, sleeping on animal corpses, enduring the cold and the constant possibility of hypothermia" or the scene in which Iñárritu made him eat bison liver, causing an "instinctive reaction" that the Mexican decided to leave in the film.
Iñárritu, who was also a screenwriter with Mark L. Smith, assured that he has finished the editing work on his next film, after starting to plan the project five years ago, having in mind all the locations beforehand because he knew that the filming it would be difficult.
A SURVIVAL STORY
The Revenant will hit Spanish theaters on February 5, 2016. Before that, on December 25, it will be released in the United States, just in time to be in the running for the Oscars.
The film tells a story of revenge and survival inspired by true events, set in the depths of wild America. There the trapper Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) is badly injured and left to fend for himself by a treacherous member of his team, John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy).
With willpower his only weapon, Glass must face hostile territory, a brutal winter, and constant warfare between Native American tribes in a heroic and relentless quest to exact revenge on Fitzgerald.
