Leonardo DiCaprio's Acting Career Has Been Built On Being Vulnerable. Very Very Vulnerable

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Today, Leonardo DiCaprio is known as “one of the last movie stars.” Alongside Denzel Washington, Sandra Bullock, and Jack Black, he’s one of the few famous faces who can reliably draw audiences to their local multiplex. Why else would Warner Bros. sink $125+ million into his new movie, One Battle After Another , a Thomas Pynchon adaptation from director Paul Thomas Anderson?

There was a point, though, where it looked like his star image was on the wane. In November 2002, DiCaprio was preparing to launch his “auteur movie star” phase with the holiday season 2002 movies Gangs of New York and Catch Me If You Can . To celebrate this career pivot, The New York

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