Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence recently sat down for Variety’s Actors on Actors. The two spoke about their long careers and their shared admiration for director Martin Scorsese. They also discussed their latest films, One Battle After Another and Die My Love. During the conversation, Lawrence playfully teased DiCaprio about his past nude scenes, adding a light and humorous moment to the discussion.
Jennifer Lawrence makes unique request to Leonardo DiCaprio
Jennifer Lawrence brings up Leonardo DiCaprio’s past nude scenes on Variety’s Actors on Actors. She asked inquisitively, “Have you ever done nudity?” “Yes, maybe I have,” DiCaprio replies, fetching a bottle of water.
The 51-year-old continued, “I did a film which you never would have seen called Total Eclipse about Arthur Rimbaud, French poet, when I was 17 or 18. I was nude in that, and I think I was partially nude in The Aviator.”
Lawrence remarked deadpanned, “Hmm. You should rewatch it,” as both of them chuckled. Previously, DiCaprio spoke about filming nude scenes for The Wolf of Wall Street, where the actor portrayed the flamboyant yet cutthroat financial stockbroker Jordan Belfort, who is involved in financial fraud.
In a brief clip shared by Outstanding Screenplays, the Oscar winner confessed filming sex scenes was not pleasurable or arousing by any means and described the experience as “disgusting.”
He stated, “To tell you the truth, it was kind of disgusting. Sometimes these sequences were, you know, they weren’t very romantic, let’s put it that way. Usually, you’ve to understand when you make movies, there’s a lot of protection in there, you know, there’s also body doubles and things like that. They’re all just another day’s work, really. I mean, you think more about your back hurting than any arousal.”
Lawrence and DiCaprio bonded over their common admiration for auteur Martin Scorsese on Variety’s Actors on Actors. The 51-year-old actor has worked with Scorsese on six feature films, including Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island, The Wolf of Wall Street, and more recently on Killers of the Flower Moon.
The actor-filmmaker duo are currently working on their seventh venture together. Leonardo DiCaprio will star opposite Jennifer Lawrence in Scorsese’s What Happens at Night. (via Enstarz).
Lawrence asked DiCaprio if he is “excited” to work with her again, to which he replied, “Who isn’t?”
