Steve Jobs' widow pressured Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale not to star in biopic

dailymail. ^ | 7 October 2015 | Ollie Gillman

[dennisw]

A source involved in the making of the film, which hits screens on Friday, told The Hollywood Reporter that MS Jobs Powell had been 'trying to kill this movie' for years.

The source said: 'Laurene Jobs called Leo DiCaprio and said: "Don’t do it." Laurene Jobs called Christian Bale and said: "Don’t."'

She is even alleged to have called potential financial backers when the movie hit issues with funding.

The movie portrays Jobs in a different light to how he is seen by many, depicting him as 'heartless' and showing him disowning his daughter.

Laurene Jobs Powell phoned actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale Steve Jobs' widow lobbied them not to play role of her late husband in film Michael Fassbender got the role but emails revealed in the Sony hack showed he was not everybody's first choice Ms Jobs Powell also allegedly pressured financiers not to fund the movie Lack of money may have contributed to Sony Pictures pulling out, to be replaced by Universal Movie is out in New York and LA Friday and rest of the US later this month

Steve Jobs' widow was so determined to have the new movie about the late Apple boss canned that she contacted Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale to persuade them not to take the role.

Laurene Jobs Powell reportedly begged the Hollywood stars to avoid the leading role, with both of the actors believed to have been offered the part.

Eventually Michael Fassbender was cast as Jobs, but that was just the first of a multitude of dramas that saw the controversial biopic come close to never making the screen.

[DiogenesLamp]

He pretty much fell off the radar in the early 80s, while Jobs went on to bigger and greater accomplishments.

More fame and more money. Perhaps Woz was satisfied with what he's made and didn't feel compelled to push harder?

All Woz does now is sign autographs for money,

I think he's earned it. I have great empathy for a man who does something great, and then like Cincinnatus, retires to a simpler life.

Last I heard he's going to become the Wizard of Oz.

:)

Anyway, we're all Freepers as well as computer fans so that's all with my remarks, given with a smile.

Exactly. We shouldn't be carping at each other, though it's hard to not be curmudgeonly given all the bad things going on out there currently.

[DiogenesLamp]

And, yes, Steve Wozniak did a phenomenal job, with help, in designing that board and everything else. But Steve Jobs did another phenomenal job of all the rest in making it come together to get the PRODUCT made. . . and frankly, all-in-all, that was probably the harder job.

About this, I think we will have to respectfully disagree. Perhaps I will see more information in the future that will enlighten me as to the brilliance of Steve Jobs, but so far the more I learn about him, the less I like or appreciate him. I think he's earned his accolades to the same extent that Barack Obama earned his Nobel prize.

Woz I like. Jobs I don't. Tim Cook also sucks, (Literally) as does the attitude of the entire Tech Industry lately.

Fortunately, from my perspective, i'm hearing ominous rumblings coming out of Silicon Valley. Perhaps their attitudes will soon undergo a realistic correction.