Leonardo DiCaprio Survived Avalanche, Wild Animal Attack, and Extreme Temperatures While Filming This Movie
The Revenant was one hell of a movie to shoot, but only two of these three events really happened the way you think — the last one was more of a funny technicality.
Leonardo DiCaprio has been killing it throughout his entire career: the actor's resume is filled to the brim with lead roles in big-name movies that landed both critical and commercial success.
While being one of Hollywood's most famous and well-established actors for decades, DiCaprio was notoriously kept Oscar-less.
The fans of the actor have been rebelling, pleading, and laughing at this phenomenon for years as one of his generation's best actors continued losing every Oscar nomination time after time.
Still, the painful wait had to end someday — and it ended in 2016 when Leo DiCaprio finally got his first Oscar for The Revenant.
The Revenant is totally not the best movie in DiCaprio's career, but it's still an amazing film in its own right — and the actor performed beautifully in it.
The entire world could see why Leo deserved the Oscar for his portrayal of Hugh Glass, the man who was left to die at the frontier after being mauled by a grizzly bear.
Hugh Glass's story was real, and The Revenant did its best to show it the way it happened.
To do so, Leonardo DiCaprio had to go through a lot: he endured extreme cold, survived an actual non-CGI avalanche, slept in an animal carcass, and consumed raw bison liver which predictably led the actor to severe sickness.
But the real question that's been on everyone's minds since day one is "How did they film the grizzly bear fight scene?"
Well, the way Leo put it, it wasn't even a fight: while he initially expected himself to throw at least a few hooks, he quickly found that it was not possible. You can't really fight a pissed-off grizzly bear.
"It's not a fight at all, you're just being mauled and it's like a giant cat throwing around a ball of yarn around the forest," recalls the actor.
This description and the brutality of the end-result scene may lead you to think that there was an actual grizzly bear on the set…
Which is not true, of course. The reality was way more mundane and hilarious: the crew used a stuntman dressed in a bear costume who had to "maul" DiCaprio's character like his own cubs were under attack.
Then, with a bit of CGI and other post-production magic, the scene was enhanced to make it look like Leo's character was assaulted by a real bear, and it turned out amazing and very believable…
But learning about a guy in a furry costume is still too funny after the mystery the crew's been building about the nature of this iconic fight.
Source: TheThings