According to Contactmusic Hollywood superstar Leonardo DiCaprio claims director Martin Scorsese was always on the top of his list to work with.
The 39-year-old actor said he himself “tracked down” the script of 2002’s film ‘Gangs of New York’, which also features Daniel Day Lewis and Cameron Diaz, and begged the director to work with him, as reported by Contactmusic.
“I grew up in a generation of actors that really admired the work from the 1970s, where the director's vision was paramount, and at the top of that list was Marty's work. As soon as I got the opportunity to finance a movie based on my own name, the only person on that list to be able to work with, at least only once, was Martin Scorsese. So I tracked down the only screenplay I knew had a character for me in it, and that was Gangs of New York,” Contactmusic quoted DiCaprio as saying.
DiCaprio, who has worked with the highly-acclaimed director in five films including 'The Aviator', 'The Departed', 'Shutter Island’, and most recent ‘Wolf of Wall Street’, claims the two have enjoyed working together as they both have similar interests.
"The truth of the matter is, it's really been this kind of amazing relationship since then. We found we shared similar interests and we had similar tastes in the kind of stuff we wanted to do. And the way we executed that, it's really been beyond my wildest dream to have done five films with him now," he added.
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