Is Leonardo DiCaprio gunning for our hearts and memes? The “One Battle After One other” star definitely gave it his all Sunday on the Golden Globes.
First, there have been DiCaprio’s reactions to host Nikki Glaser joking about all of the issues he’d managed to perform professionally — earlier than his girlfriend turned 30. Vittoria Ceretti is 27, so he nonetheless has just a few extra years to shine that resume with, say, Oscar No. 2.
He smiled, he pointed, he gave a thumbs up. So good, Glaser stated, so vaping good.
Glaser additionally apologized, greater than hinting that she needed to do it as a result of the 51-year-old’s penchant for relationship fashions of their 20s was the one factor the general public knew about him personally. (Although he didn’t precisely cover the entire smoker-turned-vaping icon factor.)
“Leo, I’m sorry I made that joke. It’s low cost,” she stated. “You recognize what, I attempted to not, however like, we don’t know anything about you, man. Like, there’s nothing else. Like, open up. I’m critical. I appeared. I searched. Essentially the most in-depth interview you’ve ever given was in Teen Beat journal in 1991. Is your favourite meals nonetheless ‘pasta, pasta and extra pasta’?”
TBH, we actually would have most popular her to ask him if he nonetheless needs to check oceanography and drive a solar-powered 1982 Jaguar. (Guessing it’s a sure on the Jaguar.)
Anyway, DiCaprio acquired a bit of extra animated at that second than he was on the crimson carpet, however it took going to a business break for him to go actually meme-worthy.
“I used to be watching you with the Okay-pop factor, you had been like, ‘Who’s that, is that, oh, Okay-pop,’” DiCaprio stated to somebody off digicam, gesticulating and over-pronouncing to make himself comprehensible in what could be a very loud room. Which shouldn’t be that humorous, however it appeared like this.
The “I’m watching you” motion. The frilly hand gestures. The well mannered golf clap. Capped by amusing and smile that made him appear to be a youthful Burt Reynolds with only a contact of Jack Nicholson. Assume signal language for individuals who can hear.
Maybe as an alternative of Ben Sadfleck, we now have Leo DiCapricious? Leo Discombobulated? It was undoubtedly an entire change of public persona. When DiCaprio took the stage later within the present, after his movie “One Battle After One other” gained for finest image, comedy or musical, he was again to trying principally like he was making an attempt to maintain that little nicotine pouch from shifting round in his mouth.
DiCaprio’s philosophy on fame, by the way in which, is consistent with that: Preserve your mouth shut.
“It’s been a stability I’ve been managing my entire grownup life, and nonetheless I’m not an skilled,” he informed Time final month, after the outlet dubbed him its entertainer of the 12 months for 2025. “I believe my easy philosophy is simply get on the market and do one thing when you might have one thing to say, or you might have one thing to indicate for it. In any other case, simply disappear as a lot as you presumably can.”
After the celebrity and a spotlight he scored with “Titanic” nearly 30 years in the past, he stated, he wanted to discover a approach to have a protracted profession in Hollywood.
“I like what I do,” he informed Time, “and I really feel like the easiest way to have a protracted profession is to get out of individuals’s face.”
Out of your lips to God’s ears, Leo. We’ve acquired our eyes on you.
