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...took him an awfully long time to choose The Beach, the first movie he decided to do since Titanic was released. After starring in the biggest movie in history, DiCaprio had his pick of scripts. He read more than 100 and optioned six, but couldn't decide which one to do. "I could tell after reading the script with him that he'd do it, but it took more than a month for a definite yes," says Beach director Danny Boyle. "He does kind of hem and haw." Once he started making the film, DiCaprio spent hours reshooting scenes...
...interview. After a year of back-and-forth, DiCaprio finally agreed to meet at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 30, during what people tell me was the best fourth quarter of any Super Bowl in history. "I don't even know who was playing today," he admits. "St. Louis and some weird other team that beat somebody else that was supposed to get in the Super Bowl." DiCaprio isn't as in touch with American culture as American culture is with him. The son of a legal secretary and a hippie underground-comic-book artist, both retired, DiCaprio still...
Although it's got to hurt deep inside, DiCaprio says he's at peace with being usurped by the Backstreet Boys. "I'll never reach that state of popularity again, and I don't expect to," he says. "It's not something I'm going to try to achieve either." Instead, he has spent his post-Titanic life avoiding interviews. "I feel so uncomfortable doing publicity," he says, and then proves it by spending the rest of the evening chewing on mint Stim-u-dent toothpicks, biting his nails, cracking his knuckles and loudly sucking in wallops of air through...
Especially me. He won't talk about his dating life. In fact, in figuring out what he wants to talk about, DiCaprio says, "I want to be as dry and drab and as boring as possible." And although always nice, he does a remarkable job at this, listing, at one point, nearly 20 endangered species. The only other thing besides his dating that I can muster any interest in is what it's like to be crazy famous. "Is winning the lottery paradise for you? Is fame your paradise? Is that going to cleanse you of all your demons...
...interested in the notion of paradise, particularly in how it relates to The Beach. He says he chose the project because Alex Garland's 1997 novel speaks to his generation. "We've never had anything to fight for, so we're constantly looking for things to believe in. Richard [DiCaprio's character] is so influenced by the media and television and especially films that he's constantly searching for an emotional event in real time," he says. "In a world where everything conforms to our comfort, the only valuable things are those that go beyond anticipation. I think that this...