Today DiCaprio is promoting his latest film, Revolutionary Road, in which he is reunited with Kate Winslet for the first time since 1997’s Titanic.
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Today DiCaprio is promoting his latest film, Revolutionary Road, in which he is reunited with Kate Winslet for the first time since 1997’s Titanic.
Post-Titanic, his fee leapt from $1 million to $10 million but he refused every blockbuster he was offered, famously passing on Spider-Man, which turned his childhood friend Tobey Maguire into a mega-star.
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‘Look around you!’ he screams, pointing to thousands of basking seals, ‘You’re missing a scene out of National Geographic.’
Or to see barbers in Afghanistan arrested as they enraged the Taliban by offering a Leo DiCaprio-style haircut labelled The Titanic. At an airport in Paris, a teenager grabbed his leg and pressed her head into it. He tried to tell her that if she let go he’d talk to her, but she wouldn’t loosen her grip. [links]
“Someone asked about sharks, but I told them not to worry and said the sharks were quite friendly. here
“He was very cool. I had been body surfing with him a few days earlier and knew that he was confident in water and was a good swimmer,” he said. more
The actor made it through the ordeal unharmed, and filming on the movie, “The Beach,” continued, the London Sun said. more
“I jumped first,” Davies said, “and Leo was the first to follow.”
Footage taken on October 16 shows dozens of blacktip reef sharks swimming at Maya Bay, four months after the popular beach was closed to tourists. The dead shark was found there at the weekend. here
The incident happens almost four months after Thai authorities shut down the beach to halt environmental damage caused by tourists. more
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Filmed on Tuesday 16th October 2018
Tragically, it comes just weeks after environmentalists were overjoyed after seeing dozens of blacktip reef sharks swimming in the area for the first time since it was closed to the public in May this year due to the damaging environmental effects of tourism.
A baby blacktip reef shark washed up dead on a beach in Maya Bay, Koh Phi Phi Leh, an island made famous by the Leonardo DiCaprio movie The Beach.
Footage taken on October 16 shows dozens of blacktip reef sharks swimming at Maya Bay, where the baby shark was later found dead with its head stuck in an empty rice bag. here
Diving instructor Andrew Hewett found the stranded creature floating in the waters around Maya Bay on the island of Koh Phi Phi Ley, Thailand. ‘’The shark's head was poking through a tiny opening in the white canvas sack that would have once been used to sell rice. The shark drowned after getting stuck in the bag and being unable to swim,’’ he said. here
The incident happens almost four months after Thai authorities shut down the beach to halt environmental damage caused by tourists. more
Wildlife officials are now investigating how the shark died as they continue their efforts to reverse the damage ravaged upon the island by more than one million tourists visiting it each year. more