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THE INTERVIEW
T he Oscar award only highlights what we Award nomination for best supporting actor as Johnny
already knew about the actor, that he is a Depp’s mentally handicapped brother, in What’s Eating
talented professional, dedicated to each Gilbert Grape. New York Times critic Janet Maslin
project with a passion that is found in wrote, “…the film’s real show-stopping turn comes
only true artists. A native of LA, DiCaprio got into the from Mr. DiCaprio, who makes Arnie’s many tics so
business at the age of 12, when it was clear to him even startling and vivid that at first he is difficult to watch.
then what he wanted to do with his life. The performance has a sharp, desperate intensity from
beginning to end.”
He acknowledges that he owes a great deal to his DiCaprio’s intensity is surely the key factor to his
mother, Irmelin Indenbirken, who accompanied success. He fleshes out each role, suspending the
DiCaprio to the recent Oscar ceremony. He has noted viewer’s reality completely with the fictional character
that it was she who took him to auditions after school he is portraying and it comes from the love he has for
and without her support he would never have made it his profession. He chooses roles that require complete
to where he is now. immersion where he is often the conflicted hero. “I
just really love doing what I do. I know every career is
DiCaprio started out in TV commercials and fleeting and there will be time periods when I don’t get
educational programs. His first big role was with the the opportunities that I’m getting right now, so I am
TV show Growing Pains. He made his movie debut in taking advantage of them.”
1991 in Critters 3. He started to get noticed in the film
This Boy’s Life and then, in 1993, he earned an Academy
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