I thought it needed a bit of a darker tone to it and he agreed, so he sort of went in that direction.
“He wanted guns for a while but then he wasn’t sure. “At the beginning when we were just starting out, he wanted to make a lot of the characters go around on rollerblades and I quickly said no,” DiCaprio revealed. RELATED: The 1 Reason Brad Pitt Thanked Leonardo DiCaprio and Not His Kids But, that didn’t fit in with DiCaprio’s vision for the film. The actor says that initially, Luhrmann wanted the characters moving around on rollerblades. He even stopped the director from making a major mistake with the tone of the film. It’s the ultimate tragedy and the ultimate love story.” Leonardo DiCaprio stopped ‘Romeo + Juliet’ director Baz Luhrmann from making a major mistakeĭiCaprio had a lot of input with Luhrmann on the set of Romeo + Juliet. “So he risks everything - his whole life, his whole family, everything - and he marries this girl, which is such an honorable thing to do if you really believe in somebody, if you believe in love like that, especially at that age, especially to risk your life. And Juliet says, ‘Alright look, if you’ve got any real balls you should marry me now and risk everything,'” DiCaprio explained. “You sort of realize that he was a hopeless romantic and then he meets Juliet. He agreed to play Romeo even though everyone sees him as “some fluffy romantic type.”īut as he did his research on the character, DiCaprio discovered that Romeo took a huge risk when he met Juliet. It may have been early in his career, but DiCaprio was already drawn to darker characters. It actually seemed more natural, more ‘meant to be’ than a traditional version.” Romeo was a ‘hopeless romantic’ when he met Juliet I have to say, the first time I knew it was working was the first day of work. I wasn’t sure then how it would all work out. “A lot of the religious themes, the cars, the guns instead of the swords and a lot of the elaborate costumes. RELATED: Leonardo DiCaprio Admitted He Was ‘Taken Aback’ By Claire Danes’ Kiss in Her Audition For ‘Romeo + Juliet’ “Then I went out to Australia to do a workshop with him and he told me about the new ideas he wanted to bring to the movie,” DiCaprio explained. But he wasn’t interested in doing a traditional version of the Shakespearean story. The future Oscar winner told Vice iD for their Desirable Issue that Luhrmann initially gave him a script. He also explained how he got involved in the project.
In a rare candid interview back in 1997, DiCaprio opened up about his experience filming Romeo + Juliet. Leonardo DiCaprio wasn’t interested in starring in ‘Romeo + Juliet’
He even stopped the director from making one major mistake on the set. Even though it was early in his career - and he was only 21 at the time - DiCaprio had a lot of input into Luhrmann’s modern retelling of the Shakespearean story. Leonardo DiCaprio starred as Romeo in Baz Luhrmann’s interpretation of Romeo + Juliet, which hit theaters 25 years ago. But although it is set in modern times, it is still the same timeless story of the "star crossed lovers".‘Romeo + Juliet’ stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes | 20th Century-Fox/Getty Images There are obstacles on the way, like Juliet's cousin, Tybalt, and Romeo's friend Mercutio, and many fights. They have to hide their love from the world because they know that their parents will not allow them to be together. The Montagues and Capulets are two feuding families, whose children meet and fall in love.
The classic story of Romeo and Juliet, set in a modern-day city of Verona Beach.
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