At just twenty years old, Leonardo Dicaprio exploits his full potential as an actor in Basketball Diaries. Heartbreaking, he then signs one of his most beautiful roles.
There are films that take the guts, that pierce the audience and offer the actors the role that will exploit their full potential. Released in 1995, The Basketball Diaries is part of this directory. And it is Leonardo DiCaprio who illustrated himself in the main role, probably one of the most beautiful of his career, unfortunately too little cited over the years.
Feline charisma, soft and lively gaze. It was in this guise that the whole world loved to see Leonardo DiCaprio charm a Kate Winslet struggling to live in Titanic in 1997. With Romeo + Juliet released a year earlier, these are, in the eyes of the general public, the performances that have earned Leonardo DiCaprio the notoriety and recognition of Hollywood. In the collective spirit, this is when his career exploded and a legend was born. Only, some of his roles are neglected in the counter discussions and it is very sad. Since in reality, it was earlier in the 1990s that the monster DiCaprio was born.
Leonardo DiCaprio et Mark Wahlberg
Jim Carroll: Finding the Perfect Performer
1994. Leonardo DiCaprio is not on his first shoot. He has just accepted to play the colorful and larger-than-life character of Jim Carroll for Scott Kalvert’s camera. The actor, barely twenty years old, is about to step into the shoes of the writer with a dark past, made up of drug addiction and degradation.
This new feature film, in preparation for years, with a far-flung budget from commercial films, is Basketball Diaries. It is inspired by the biographical novel of the same name by the real Jim Carroll, published in 1978. Considered as an initiatory story, it tells of his youth: that of a high school student who discovers the depths of depravity at all levels and gets lost in the hell of hard drugs. A divine mixture for an adaptation on the big screen.
Leonardo Dicaprio
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