At 19 years old, Leonardo DiCaprio almost had the amazing chance to play the prominent and gone-before-his-time film heart breaker James Dean. Nevertheless, the prodigy was obviously just exorbitantly young for the gig.
In another gathering with Deadline, boss Michael Mann uncovered that, before he helmed his 1995 bad behavior commendable Heat, he was joined to organize a biopic about the Rebel Without a Cause star’s short yet serious life.
“It was a marvelous screenplay. Furthermore, a short time later it’s [the question of] who on earth could play James Dean? Moreover, I found a chap who could play James Dean, yet he was unnecessarily energetic. It was Leo,” Mann explored. “We did a screen test that is exceptionally surprising.”
DiCaprio was 19 – – only five years more young than Dean when he passed on at 24 in a blasting minor collision in September 1955 – – but simultaneously had a blameless and vigorous look – – by and large.
“From one point, he totally had it with him. With everything taken into account, it’s quality. He would turn his face in one course and we see a fantasy of James Dean,” Mann evaluated of DiCaprio’s screen test. “Then, he’d turn his face another bearing and it’s no, that is a little kid.”
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Mann said he felt DiCaprio would be absolutely obviously appropriate for the endeavor in three years’ time, but Mann finished up he expected to progress forward toward a substitute assignment since he couldn’t imagine shooting the Dean biopic without DiCaprio.
“He, respectfully, fixed the James Dean bio for me,” Mann got a handle on.
While the James Dean biopic didn’t work out, DiCaprio continued to star in Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet in 1996 and transformed into a handily perceived name with his presentation in 1997’s Titanic.
DiCaprio never continued to manage any of Mann’s films later on, disregarding the way that Mann filled in as a producer on 2004’s The Aviator, which obtained DiCaprio an Oscar assignment.