Leonardo DiCaprio made sure he had protection for one gnarly sequence in his new film.
Killers of the Flower Moon cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto recently told Insider that DiCaprio, 48, wore buttock padding for a scene in which Robert De Niro’s character William K. Hale punches DiCaprio’s Ernest Burkhart.
“I don’t think it was in the first script,” Prieto said. “It’s something that’s added, and it’s shocking in the movie.”
The filmmaker added that before working on the film, he read David Grann’s 2017 nonfiction book on which the film is based – which does not mention rowing – so the scene surprised him.
“I remember doing them a few times and thinking, ‘Oh, that must hurt,'” Prieto told the paper. “There was padding on his bum. But you could tell De Niro was really hitting him.”
Flower killers Month A true story: all about the real events that inspired Martin Scorsese’s film
Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio in the movie ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’.
Paramount Pictures
The scene in question takes place around the middle Killers of the Flower Moonduration of 206 minutes. Hale escorts Ernest, his nephew, into the back room, where he chastises Ernest for foiling one of Hale’s plans to kill numerous members of the Osage Nation, the years-long assassination plot at the heart of the film’s story.
Hale then forces Ernest to bend down on his elbows on the podium and hits him with the paddle several times, physically punishing him for his failures.
“Leo is game for so much,” Prieto, who previously worked with the actor on the 2013 film. The Wolf of Wall Street, Insider added. “He’ll do anything.”
Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE’s free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.
DiCaprio, an Oscar winner for his similarly hard-hitting performance in 2015 Returneeportrays a white man who marries and has children with a wealthy Osage woman named Mollie Kyle (Lily Gladstone) in Martin Scorsese’s latest film.
The film follows the marriage of Ernest and Mollie even though Ernest is involved in a number of murders that directly target Mollie’s family, depicting an American true crime story set in Osage County, Oklahoma in the 1920s. A years-long assassination plot eventually led to an FBI investigation that led to the arrests of Ernest and Hale.
Killers of the flower moon PEOPLE review: Leonardo DiCaprio stars in Martin Scorsese’s ominous western
:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(749x0:751x2)/Leonardo-DiCaprio-Talks-Importance-of-Being-Authentic-in-Killers-of-the-Flower-Moon-100623-3-bee41d96309346e48dcf73dc4a2ba2bd.jpg)
Robert De Niro and Jesse Plemons in the movie ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’.
Apple TV+
Scorsese, 80, said he originally cast DiCaprio in the role of FBI agent Tom White, played by Jesse Plemons in the film. The director said those plans changed after reading the script, when DiCaprio approached him and suggested he play Ernest instead and focus the film’s tragedies on Ernest and Mollie’s relationship.
“In reality, it wasn’t about who did it. I wanted to show who didn’t do it,” Scorsese said recently of his decision to make it clear that Hale and Ernest — among a number of other white settlers in Osage County — committed the crimes. , instead of making the film more like a murder mystery.
Killers of the flower moon it’s in theaters now.
Categories: Trends
Source: HIS Education