PLAYING THE ROLE OF HUGH GLASS
Leonardo DiCaprio plays the role of Hugh Glass, a fur merchant who gets
attacked by a grizzly bear and gets abandoned by his hunting party. He
then travels across the snowy mountains to survive and exact revenge on
his friends who left him to die. Even though the bear attack was CGI,
DiCaprio underwent a strict and rigorous transformation to understand
the mindset of a person who has to live in murderous weather conditions.
ENDURING HARSH WEATHER CONDITIONS FOR THE MOVIE '' THE REVENANT''
The actors, including DiCaprio, had to travel and shoot in extreme
weather conditions, where the temperature went to as low as -25°C in the
frozen forests of Calgary, Canada. They would travel for hours just to
shoot for 90 minutes because of director Alejandro González Iñárritu and
cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki’s decision to shoot only in natural
light.
DiCaprio hardly talks in this movie, a new feat for him.
Leonardo DiCaprio has done a lot of movies, and in all of them, he’s
talked a hell of a lot. Titanic, The Wolf of Wall Street, Shutter
Island, Inception; all have seen him be a big mouth. DiCaprio said he
wanted to explore the emotions and state of mind of a person who’s
trapped and wants to survive, and hence, he wanted to go in a totally
opposite direction as compared to his previous vocal performances. The
Revenant is officially DiCaprio’s performance with the least dialogue.
Ants had to be imported to crawl on DiCaprio. Twice!
Sounds like fiction but it's true, the producers revealed after the shooting of the film that for a
particular sequence, they required ants to crawl over DiCaprio. Since
there were no ants present in the frozen forest of Calgary where they
were shooting, they had to order ants to be flown in from Oregon and
Ontario. Some ants from the first batch died during the flight, so they
had to fly in another batch.
An amazing lesson for us all; DESTINY CAN BE DELAYED BUT NEVER DENIED!!!
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