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...editor had an urgent message as I returned from a screening at 6:45 p.m. one Wednesday before Christmas. Leonardo DiCaprio had agreed to talk with TIME. Talk with me, to be exact. I explained that I was supposed to leave for the theater in an hour to see the Broadway "La Boh?me" directed by Baz Luhrmann, DiCaprio's once ("Romeo + Juliet") and future ("Alexander the Great") collaborator. That's OK, my editor said, Leo will be calling you in 10 minutes...
...nightmare where you walk into a classroom and a teacher you've never seen sits you down for the final exam. I am not a professional interviewer, not even a gifted amateur, and had no way of recording DiCaprio's responses to whatever questions I might think up in the next few minutes. Fortunately, Amanda Vender of the TIME News Desk found me a tape recorder and expertly hooked it up to my office phone. Luckily too, DiCaprio was agreeable and articulate, ready to discuss his two big Christmas films, Martin Scorsese's "Gangs of New York" and Steven Spielberg...
...DiCAPRIO: My experience with him was pretty amazing. He understands the journey that he wants the character to make, but he lets you go through your own process to get to the end result - which I think he's already understood. I felt I was working with a great visionary, somebody who can masterfully assemble these hidden mechanisms that people don't realize make a movie operate seamlessly, and with great dramatic force immerse you in the world he creates...
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN STARRING: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen DIRECTED BY: Steven Spielberg...
...played by Tom Hanks. He wears half-horn-rims and a dorky little hat, speaks in a grating Boston accent and tends to spend his Christmas Eves at the office eating Chinese takeout and obsessing about Abagnale. It's a delicious comic portrayal, though not more so than Leonardo DiCaprio's charming impersonation of Abagnale, which is simultaneously naive and knowing. Abagnale's life is shadowed by his failed father (played with melancholic anger by a superb Christopher Walken), who had the spirit of a con artist but none of the breed's subtle skills...