Leonardo DiCaprio could also be one of the recognizable stars on the earth, however the man goes out of his solution to keep away from being seen when he is out and about. When stepping out in public, The Departed star usually hides underneath a baseball cap, sun shades or face masks. It is also been hidden for years. The rationale? Easy. The 51-year-old desires to remain out of the highlight as a lot as potential to guard his profession. (Picture: Getty Pictures)
In his TIME 2025 Entertainer of the 12 months interview, DiCaprio admitted that the wrestle has been a lifelong one (you would say it has been one wrestle after one other). “It is a stability I have been engaged on my whole grownup life,” he stated. ‘Solely exit and do one thing in case you have one thing to say or one thing to point out. In any other case you simply disappear as a lot as potential.’ The message appears fairly clear: visibility is non-compulsory. However privateness is important. (Picture: Getty Pictures)
The A-lister went on to clarify his considering, recalling a realization he had just a few years in the past: “Okay, how can I’ve an extended profession? As a result of I really like what I do,” he stated. His conclusion was blunt: “I believe one of the best ways to have an extended profession is to remain out of individuals’s faces.” For DiCaprio, this meant lowering his public footprint when the job did not require the alternative. (Picture: Getty Pictures)
After preferring totally different hats earlier than 2019, he began carrying a masks through the pandemic after which saved it as a part of his day by day wardrobe for just a few years. Add in considered one of his signature caps – with the brim pulled down low sufficient to cover most of his extremely well-known face – and the star turns into simply one other man in line at a espresso store carrying a sports activities cap. The extra coated it’s, the extra comfy it appears. (Picture: Getty Pictures)
That dedication was even on show earlier this 12 months at Jeff Bezos’ glitzy wedding ceremony in Venice. Regardless of carrying a tuxedo, he clutched his cap over his face as he left his resort. Everybody else was glowing and smiling upon arrival. DiCaprio stayed true to the artwork of being hidden. Although, to be sincere, it was nonetheless fairly apparent who he was. (Picture: Getty Pictures)
Work occasions are in fact an exception. Throughout a latest press tour in Mexico Metropolis, he ditched the disguise as a result of the job required it. And the identical goes for premieres. The trade expects him to seem with the face that made him well-known and promote movies. It delivers that on the proper time when wanted, then rapidly slips again into its stealthy mode as soon as the cameras are put away. (Picture: Getty Pictures)
His intuition to cover began just a few years in the past with the discharge of the blockbuster Titanic. In a 2016 Deadline interview, DiCaprio stated, “Earlier than Titanic, I had no thought what it meant. It was stunning.’ Folks warned him concerning the dimension of the movie. “They are saying, no, no, no, you do not get it.” However he would get it very quickly. He had simply turn into an actual megastar. (Picture: Getty Pictures)
The eye modified every little thing. “My entire life was about issues that weren’t about performing,” he stated. That change pressured him to determine methods to hold working with out dropping himself within the chaos that adopted. He recalled how he and Kate Winslet approached the movie. “Titanic was primarily an experiment for Kate Winslet and me,” he stated. “We had been making all these unbiased movies.” They by no means predicted the magnitude of the influence. “We did it and it was one thing we may by no means have anticipated.” The celebrity that adopted wasn’t one thing he ever actually anticipated. Since then he has discovered to adapt and cope. (Picture: Getty Pictures)
The aftermath of the huge reputation pressured the world’s largest film star to pause and mirror. He stated he needed to “decelerate” and await the tide round him to subside so he may get again to the work that actually drove him. It was a aware step again that formed his future selections, together with his method to public anonymity. He would quickly discover his method between performing and superstardom – thanks in no small half to a brand new working relationship with legendary author-filmmaker Martin Scorsese. (Picture: Getty Pictures)
Now, as a longtime, celebrated and Oscar-winning actor, Los Angeles-born DiCaprio has discovered a lifestyle that just about permits him to maintain his non-public and work lives considerably separate. And keep away from “getting in individuals’s faces.” It simply signifies that, off-screen, we do not get to see his angelic face as usually as we’d like. (Picture: Getty Pictures)
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