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Oscar-Less Actor Leonardo DiCaprio Wants to Portray Russian President Vladimir Putin
Vulture ^ | January 17, 2016 | Greg Cwik

Posted on 01/17/2016 2:37:19 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

Leonardo DiCaprio, the man who ate raw bison liver for his art (despite the several looming fires raging around him with which he could have cooked the viscous organ), picks his projects very carefully.

He has, in recent years, developed a particular affinity for portraying amoral men. Speaking with Germany's Welt am Sonntag, the Oscar-less actor said he would love to portray Vladimir Putin, the Russian president and sometimes shirtless model.

"Putin would be very, very, very interesting," DiCaprio said. "I would love to play him." They unlikely pair met at a 2010 conference on the endangered Siberian tiger, when Putin was still just a lowly Prime Minister.

"My foundation has provided financial support for several projects for the protection of these big cats," Leo said. "Putin and I talked only about the protection of these magnificent animals, not politics." Putin later declared DiCaprio, who is half Russian, a "muzhik," or "a real man," probably because he ate raw bison liver for his art.

If DiCaprio did get to play Putin, where do you think it would rank on his list of best performances? Probably somewhere around the homicidal slave trader, guiltless Wall Street swindler, and crazy, paranoid FBI director.

(Excerpt) Read more at vulture.com ...


TOPICS: Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: hollywood; putin
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If we had to pick an Anglo-American actor, I would pick Jude Law. He got that gaunt, balding look.

1 posted on 01/17/2016 2:37:19 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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Leo’s not man enough.

Apply some makeup and he’d be able to portray Barry O.


2 posted on 01/17/2016 2:42:20 PM PST by HomerBohn (Liberals and slinkies: they're good for nothing, but you smile as you shove them down the stairs.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

And, he does not have a head that looks like a pumpkin!


3 posted on 01/17/2016 2:44:23 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: MinorityRepublican

Judd Law is an Aussie. DiCaprio is a left-wing global warming candy ass. Only man that could do justice to Putin is a real man. Daniel Craig might make a good Putin.


4 posted on 01/17/2016 2:45:22 PM PST by NKP_Vet (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,stand like a rock ~ T, Jefferson)
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Daniel Craig might make a good Putin.

The obvious choice.

5 posted on 01/17/2016 2:46:00 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: HomerBohn

I think RuPaul would be a perfect Obama.


6 posted on 01/17/2016 2:46:29 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: MinorityRepublican

I see Dicaprio playing Howard Hughes I don’t see Howard Hughes, I see Dicaprio playing Howard Hughes. Same for J.Edgar Hoover.


7 posted on 01/17/2016 2:47:10 PM PST by AU72
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To: dfwgator

LOL!!!


8 posted on 01/17/2016 2:50:37 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (Cruz 2016)
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To: dfwgator; NKP_Vet
Daniel Craig might make a good Putin.

The obvious choice.

Less important who plays Putin than who plays his daughters, wife and squeeze?

9 posted on 01/17/2016 2:52:39 PM PST by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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I think RuPaul would be a perfect Obama.

You own me a keyboard....but, Yes!!!

10 posted on 01/17/2016 2:54:06 PM PST by KosmicKitty (Liberals claim to want to hear other views, but then are shocked to discover there are other views)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Did I miss the Ocsars? I usually do. I thought Leo was taking a run at it with his latest effort.


11 posted on 01/17/2016 3:01:41 PM PST by stevem
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Did Putin get screwed by a bear? I don’t think Vlad would want to be played by a pinched-up baby-face like Leo.


12 posted on 01/17/2016 3:08:42 PM PST by ozzymandus
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To: NKP_Vet

Daniel Craig and Putin may have been twins separated at birth.


13 posted on 01/17/2016 3:09:30 PM PST by ozzymandus
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To: AU72

Tommy Lee Jones made a good Howard Hughes.


14 posted on 01/17/2016 3:10:11 PM PST by ozzymandus
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To: MinorityRepublican

Exactly what would the actor portray Putin doing? Annexation of Crimea (signed treaty violation!) Attacking Georgia (nation not state) (violation of UN charter!) Covering-up destruction of civilian airliner using Russian weapons by obvious proxies?

Or the grinning Putin watching US President Obama talking about flexibility after he is re-elected in 2012?


15 posted on 01/17/2016 3:10:47 PM PST by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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And Sean Penn is leading the casting for the remake of ‘Vanished’.


16 posted on 01/17/2016 3:13:34 PM PST by AU72
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and....Bill Cosby’s gonna be honored for his work in “While you were Sleeping” (stole it!)


17 posted on 01/17/2016 3:18:45 PM PST by ronniesgal (here we go again!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Dicaprio’s head is too pumpkinlike.


18 posted on 01/17/2016 3:22:46 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: AU72

Sean may vanish himself. Maybe they’ll find his head on a turtle as in Breaking Bad.


19 posted on 01/17/2016 3:26:28 PM PST by ozzymandus
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To: MinorityRepublican

[DiCaprio Wants to Portray Russian President Vladimir Putin]

Simply put... “I want to pretend to be Vladimir Putin”


20 posted on 01/17/2016 3:34:36 PM PST by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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