Leonardo DiCaprio appears to have it all. From his successful film career to his A-list
squad, DiCaprio has little to complain about. Despite all of his adoring fans, DiCaprio
has managed to make some enemies in Hollywood. Here are the celebs who can't stand Leonardo
DiCaprio.
George Clooney and Leonardo DiCaprio are both talented actors who own homes in Cabo San
Lucas, Mexico and enjoy playing basketball in their downtime, but the similarities end
there. While DiCaprio likes talking a big game, Clooney isn't open to BS.
"What kind of a meeting is this?"
Speaking with Esquire in 2013, the Ocean's Eleven star recalled bumping into DiCaprio
in Cabo where they got to talking about basketball and decided to set up a game. DiCaprio's teammates
talked a very big game, and DiCaprio himself delivered a subtle threat, telling Clooney:
"You know, we're pretty serious."
Clooney recalls the entire situation:
"The thing about playing Leo is you have all these guys talking s---. We get there, and
there's this guy...and he comes up to me and says, 'We played once at Chelsea Piers. I
kicked your a--.' I said, 'I've only played at Chelsea Piers once in my life and ran the
table. So if we played, you didn't kick anybody's a--.'"
While watching them warm up, Clooney soon realized that the team they were up against
could not back up their words. He threw some serious shade after remembering the final
score, saying:
"We're all like 50 years old and we beat them three straight: 11–0, 11–0, 11–0. The
discrepancy between their game and how they talked about their game made me think of how
important it is to have someone in your life to tell you what's what. I'm not sure if Leo
has someone like that."
One of the most talked-about tracks off Taylor Swift's seventh studio album, Lover, was "The
Man" in which she addressed the sexist double standard in work, life, and dating. She explained
to Vogue:
"[The song is] a thought experiment of sorts: if I had made all the same choices, all the
same mistakes, all the same accomplishments, how would it read?"
While aiming to illustrate how her own highly publicized love life would be perceived differently
if she were a man, Swift name-checks none other than Leonardo DiCaprio. She sings:
"And they would toast to me, oh, let the players play. I'd be just like Leo in Saint Tropez."
Publications like Teen Vogue were quick to pick up the diss and they said:
"[It's] the most blatant dig in 'The Man.'"
In addition to delivering a clear dig at the actor's penchant for vacationing in France
with his various young girlfriends, Swift also threw a few more jabs at DiCaprio in
the song's music video. While dressed up as a man, Swift not only parties on a yacht surrounded
by beautiful women, but she goes as far as to spoof DiCaprio's character in The Wolf
of Wall Street. While Swift may not have a straight-out beef with DiCaprio, it's clear
that she doesn't approve of the double standard that stems from A-list men acting the way
he does.
1995's Basketball Diaries helped Mark Wahlberg shed his Marky Mark persona and put him on
the road to becoming a legit actor, but if Leonardo DiCaprio had had his way, Wahlberg
wouldn't have landed the role, and his career may have taken a totally different trajectory.
"C'mon man, get out of here, I didn't do anything."
"No, you didn't do anything. That's the problem, you never do anything."
"Get out of here pig!"
Wahlberg recalled DiCaprio's reaction to him being considered for the role in an interview
with The Hollywood Reporter. He said:
"Leonardo was like, 'Over my dead f---ing body. Marky Mark's not going to be in this
f---ing movie.' Because we'd had a thing...I didn't even realize it, [but] I was a bit
of a d--- to him at a charity basketball game. So he was like, 'This f---ing ass---- is not
going to be in this movie.'"
While the two actors eventually agreed to read lines together and were forced to be
cordial once they were both cast in the flick, their mutual dislike wasn't easy to overcome.
However, Wahlberg spoke at the 2018 LEAP Foundation conference at UCLA, and recalled the experience
actually resulted in the two bonding a bit. He said:
"We both had to really learn how to respect each other, and we earned it."
It's hard to believe that Leonardo DiCaprio didn't win his first Oscar until 2016 when
the then-41-year-old finally took home the Best Actor award for The Revenant. While his
fans and peers were overjoyed, there was one person who wasn't thrilled to see the six-time
nominee win: Jack Black.
Speaking with TheFIX while promoting Kung Fu Panda 3, Black revealed that he had rooted
for his Panda co-star, Bryan Cranston, to win for his lead role in the film Trumbo.
When the interviewer noted that it was finally Leo's year, Black wasn't having it, and said:
"Bryan Cranston is a better actor. You heard it here: Bryan Cranston is better [at] acting
than Leo DiCap…Leo DiCap was like dying a lot, he was like wheezing and coughing blood,
that's Oscar. That's what you've got to do."
The shade didn't stop there, however. When the reporter told Black he should have gotten
his own Oscar nom for 2011's Bernie, the funnyman quipped:
"Why didn't I get an Oscar nomination for that? Oh, you know why? I think Leo DiCap
took my spot. Because that was the year he had that really bad movie that got Oscar nominated."
Black was referencing Leo's film J.Edgar. When he was told that DiCaprio didn't even
receive a nomination for the film, Black didn't let up, and continued to complain about the
actor.
"Freddy, what do you like to do?"
"I dunno. Burn stuff?"
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