Leonardo DiCaprio is out on the sidewalks conducting a brand sparkling fresh interview with his One Battle After Another director Paul Thomas Anderson. It all went down for Esquire, where the uber-talented visionary actor divulged that his biggest career regret came in the form of the 1997 film Boogie Nights—a role he was offered and wanted, but couldn’t accept because he had already signed onto a then-little-known film called Titanic.
DiCaprio shared, “I’ll say it even though you’re here. My biggest regret is not doing Boogie Nights. It was a profound movie of my generation,” he continued. “I can’t imagine anyone but Mark Wahlberg in it. When I finally got to see that movie, I just thought it was a masterpiece. It’s ironic that you’re the person asking that question, but it’s true.”
For all you film connoisseurs: Boogie Nights starred Mark Wahlberg as Eddie Adams, a young, naïve, yet hungry kid who gets scouted by porn director Jack Horner (played by the one and only Burt Reynolds) and is transformed into adult film juggernaut Dirk Diggler.
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DiCaprio and Anderson may have been ships passing in the night back then, but their new project, One Battle After Another, marks their first official collaboration.
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