The Only Actor Who Got $1 Billion For Playing In Westerns

Summary:

• Westerns are extremely popular among the audience, no matter movies or TV shows.
• Unexpectedly, the highest-earning Western actor is Leonardo DiCaprio.
• His Western box office earnings are $1.1 billion.

What is it about Westerns that make people lose their mind? Maybe the fact that they portray people so far from their own reality that it makes us lose our heads in the stories we know would never happen to us.

Or it can also be the atmosphere of “anything can happen” danger that also keeps us on the edge of our seats until we see the good guy winning, leaving the bad cowboys and criminals behind.

Whatever it is, the fact remains that for many years the genre served as the most beloved action movie and the new movies are also making everything to keep it so.

There are many actors who made their career from starring in western movies. For example, Kirk Douglas or Kevin Costner.

But here's some news that may surprise you. The highest earning actor who has starred in Westerns is not one of them, but an A-list "all-genre star" actor, Leonardo DiCaprio, who turns out to be the top earner within the Western genre, at least as far as lead actors are concerned.

He starred in four westerns, although one of them bombed. So only three iconic movies were considered: The Revenant, Django Unchained, and the new movie Killers of the Flower Moon.

These movies' box offices are just significant! 2015 The Revenant ended up being the highest grossing movie, making $533 million; then it was the success of Django Unchained that made $450 million. And then comes the third movie with $156 million, which also added to Dicaprio’s wealth.

We get that the actor doesn’t strike as a typical western actor, but it’s even for the best, because his roles were even more iconic. Remember his villainous role in Django Unchained? Many viewers then said that he played the part of this miserable gritty man brilliantly.

“It’s definitely the best performance of his career. I don’t know if it’s one of the greatest villain roles of all time though. He’s too petty and small minded a character to be one of the truly great villains,” Redditor ChazzLamborghini said.

If you want to binge watch the movies, try streaming The Revenant and Django Unchained on Netflix, and Killers of the Flower Moon is available.