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If history had gone differently, “Titanic” would’ve starred Lenny Williams. In a recent appearance on the “New Heights” podcast, Leonardo DiCaprio said an agent told him in his early teens that his name was “too ethnic,” and suggested he go by the stage name Lenny Williams instead. “I finally got an agent. They said, ‘Your name is too ethnic,’” DiCaprio …

Leonardo DiCaprio has longtime fans pondering if a former teen heartthrob by any other name is still just as famous. The Oscar winner recently revealed that he was originally told his name was “too ethnic” and advised by one of his early agents to perform under a stage name, which brought a strong reaction out of his father. “I finally …

The director Paul Thomas Anderson has only made four films set in the present day. Save for that handful, and for a lovely detour to the United Kingdom, he has spent his career rooting around in the junk drawer of American history, exploring its madmen and prophets, its lost souls staggering through shell-shocked post-war days.  The end-of-the-world party of Boogie …

Paul Thomas Anderson has said the ideas that finally made up his new film, One Battle After Another have been rolling around his head for 20 years looking for a way to get it right. He got it right. Working in a contemporary setting for a change after such landmark period-set films like Licorice Pizza, Phantom Thread, There Will Be …

At the immigrant centre, Perfidia encounters the sinister Captain Steven Lockjaw, a character as broadly drawn as his name. Sean Penn makes him thoroughly convincing as a sexual creep who later bullies and blackmails her, and who admits that he is drawn to her because she is black. Perfidia soon goes underground, abandoning Bob and their baby, and it’s enough …

A propulsive, hilarious, and overwhelmingly tender paranoid comedy-thriller car chase blockbuster whatever, PTA’s $~150 million Leonardo DiCaprio epic is the first movie of its size to accurately crystallize how insane it feels to be alive right now. Source link

For over five centuries, Leonardo Da Vinci has been celebrated as a visionary artist, scientist, and inventor, known for his extraordinary talent and groundbreaking experiments. Today, an international collaboration known as the Leonardo DNA Project is closer than ever to uncovering the biological secrets of the greatest genius of the Renaissance. In their new book “Genìa Da Vinci. Genealogy and …

For over five centuries, Leonardo Da Vinci has been celebrated as a visionary artist, scientist, and inventor, known for his extraordinary talent and groundbreaking experiments. Today, an international collaboration known as the Leonardo DNA Project is closer than ever to uncovering the biological secrets of the greatest genius of the Renaissance. In their new book “Genìa Da Vinci. Genealogy and …

Paul Thomas Anderson’s $140M feature One Battle After Another had its world premiere at TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood tonight. Among those walking the red carpet were stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Benicio del Toro, Sean Penn, Teyana Taylor, Regina Hall and Chase Infiniti, as well as attendees such as Anthony Kedis, Dove Cameron and Scott Cooper. Warner Bros. Discovery brass was …

Leonardo DiCaprio has been waiting to work with Paul Thomas Anderson since he famously turned down the leading role in “Boogie Nights.” So even with a lifetime of filmmaking between 1997 and their collaboration on “One Battle After Another,” DiCaprio was a little nervous stepping on set for the first time. “I always get nervous first day, really,” DiCaprio told …