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...DiCaprio is desperate to find something important to discuss. "This is T-I-M-E, dawg. This article has got to be about something bigger. It's got to be talking about the movie and its comment on society. Not to be too serious. God, that is serious," he says, his Clintonian need to be liked getting the better of him. Then he starts to worry again. "I know it's going to wind up being about the construction of what to make the article about. That's what it's going to be about: Why the hell...
...next movie is Martin Scorsese's The Gangs of New York, about the conscription riots in Manhattan in the 1860s, and DiCaprio has been forcing himself to bulk up for the part. At 5 ft. 11 in. and 175 lbs., he claims he can bench-press 205 lbs. "This is the biggest I've ever been," he says. I ask if he's been eating a lot of sushi and yogurt, and he mocks me for my unmanly choices. Then we order room service, and he gets a burger and I almost order the sea bass. "That was pretty wussy...
...make a phone call, and DiCaprio uses the opportunity to sneak environmental propaganda into the tape recorder. "I shouldn't be eating hamburgers, because the methane gas cows release is the No. 1 contributor to the destruction of the ozone layer; and the No. 1 reason they destroy the rain forest is to make grazing ground for cattle. So it's very ironic that I eat beef, being the environmentalist that I am. But then again, if I ordered the tuna sandwich, I would be promoting the fact that they have large tuna nets that capture innocent little dolphins..." This...
...DiCaprio, who was just named the Earth Day 2000 chairperson, is an Al Gore supporter and says that if not for this interview, he would have been in New Hampshire stumping for Gore. "I was going to just stand onstage and look hard core." Effective, if 14-year-old girls were allowed to vote. He's particularly concerned with global warming and extinct species. He's commissioned Eric White to paint a 3-ft. by 6-ft. abstract piece depicting extinct animals. "I'm sure this is not going to be in the article, but the Tasmanian tiger...
Waiting for his friend Ethan to come by, DiCaprio flips through the channels and passes a VH1 special on the Bee Gees, which causes him to belt out a falsetto version of Staying Alive, followed by, for some reason, Funky Town. Then he flicks by What's Eating Gilbert Grape, the movie for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. "That was the funnest character to play ever, dude. It was so fun, I was playing it off-camera a lot too. Every scene I just did whatever the hell I wanted. They didn't have much...