‘I Was Flummoxed’: Brendan Fraser Reveals The Five Words He Once Said To A Teenaged Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor Brendan Fraser revealed the five words he once said to a teenaged Leonardo DiCaprio — back when he had just finished filming his breakout role in “School Ties” DiCaprio just finished with “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?”
Fraser — nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his most recent role in Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale” — sat down with GQ Magazine To discuss his Hollywood career, he recalls two brief meetings with the “Titanic” star.
Fraser said that this was the first meeting. “when he was I think probably all of, I don’t know, 17, 16 maybe, he did Gilbert ‘Grape.’ I saw it on the Paramount lot.”
DiCaprio earned Rave reviews for his complex portrayal of Arnie in that film, the mentally impaired younger brother to Johnny Depp’s titular character — who spends much of the film getting himself into dangerous situations — and the son of an overweight mother who refused to leave their home. He was nominated as a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominee for this role.
Fraser was just a few decades older than DiCaprio but was still a big fan of the young actor.
“I think I had just been in ‘School Ties’ or something then, and I was, like, flummoxed but I just wanted to tell him, ‘Hear, hear. That was incredible,'” Fraser explained.
They met again years later while filming Martin Scorcese’s. “Killers of the Flower Moon” — which also stars Robert De Niro and is slated for release in May of 2023 — that Fraser was reminded of that first meeting. He explained that DiCaprio remembered exactly what he had spoken all those years back and he recited it to him.
“He repeated that to me. He remembered me,” Fraser stated. “He said, ‘You were the only guy who didn’t treat me like a little kid.’ He volunteered that to me. That was meaningful.”
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