The 2016 Golden Globe's Best Actor in Motion Picture and an Oscar nominee, Leonardo DiCaprio, reveals his hard times working on set with award-winning director Alejandro Gonzales Inarittu. There were 40 sequences, according to DiCaprio, which he thinks as the most difficult scenes he's ever done.
The Revenant billed $135 million on the production - an amount that would probably solve any props problem. However, DiCaprio insists on eating raw bison liver instead of a jelly-based faux animal organ. His only concern was that it will not look as genuine as the real thing. His idea to eat uncooked wild animal organ had his team of agents and lawyers to approve their most valuable star's decision. "It bursts in your mouth," DiCaprio explained to Variety how biting the organ of a Bison was like. His vomit reaction turned out to give Innarittu, the footage he needs to make a masterpiece. His genuine sacrifice was kept in the taking because the director thinks it's an instinctive reaction.
DiCaprio plays Hugh Glass, a fur trader in the 19th century who was left for dead by his team. Betrayed by John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy), Glass has to endure an unexplainable pain and truth that eventually makes him survive the harsh winter. The Revenant is brutally yet brilliantly filmed by Innarittu. It's violent, compelling and unimaginable. DiCaprio's other Oscar worthy deeds include sleeping in animal carcasses and surviving the extreme weather condition that got him the flu a few times.
The 2016 Oscars will be held in Dolby Theater in Hollywood on February 28 and for the second time, Chris Rock will be hosting the awards ceremony. DiCaprio is pitted against Bryan Cranston for Trumbo, Eddie Redmayne for the Danish Girl, Michael Fassbender for Steve Jobs and Matt Damon for The Martian.
