Leonardo Di Caprio: 'I turned down the chance to play Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars'

[AnonymityX1000]

Leo has shown he knows he exactly what he is doing as far as picking roles. That is his strongest suit even more than his acting which is god tier.

 

[CM_Burns]

The prequels were decent, imagine them with 2pac and DiCaprio

 

[Czerka]

While watching TFA i felt like the way adam driver was acting is the way they wanted anakin to be....heard so many rumors at the time of casting, like ryan phillpe (sp?) but lucas wanted an unknown according to rumor....

The 15 minutes or whatever of Adam drivers acting without the mask shyts all over Hayden's anakin

 

[CM_Burns]

While watching TFA i felt like the way adam driver was acting is the way they wanted anakin to be....heard so many rumors at the time of casting, like ryan phillpe (sp?) but lucas wanted an unknown according to rumor....

Adam Driver was funny on Girls but he was not good in star wars. He must be some kind of industry plant they want to succeed, because he was pretty goofy without the mask in this movie.

 

[CM_Burns]

Christensen had good physical acting/facial expressions, but he was really bad at delivering that dialogue. Made it sound ridiculous a lot.

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

Christensen had good physical acting/facial expressions.

no he doesn't, he looks like he is perpetually constipated

 

[Nobodyknows]

no he doesn't, he looks like he is perpetually constipated

He inspired Kristian Steward

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

I rewatched the prequels last week and I like them more than what I did. What really gets me is that its 90 percent dated CGI.
The fight scenes being more flashy than the 4-7 makes sense when you realize they had a Temple for Master Jedi to train younglings.

After Order 66, the remaining few Jedi had to go into hiding so they couldnt pass on their skills with the lightsaber.

 

[CM_Burns]

no he doesn't, he looks like he is perpetually constipated

It would take far too much effort, getting still frames and their context, to rebut this, so I'll just say I watched ep 2 and 3 in the last 2 weeks and think differently friend.

 

[Monoblock]

I remember this rumor back then. Lucas was chasing that Titanic money at the time and in very early in pre-production and development he wanted Leo. I doubt Leo would have taken it anyway as soon as he read that 1st draft called a script by Lucas.

 

[Jmare007]

you know leo was feelin himself at first like "GTFO! no way" ...................."mama we made it..."...... flexin all in the mirror like "i find your lack of faith distributing"... doin all the hand motions








reads script:

Exactly. Leo turning down a movie like this is another example of how atrocious the script was.

 

[kingdarius]

The fact that he's terrible at acting didn't help either

yall dudes always say this but i thought dude was great in life as a house.....jumper was meh and the prequels just arent good movies but i've only heard the he cant act thing on here

 

[the cool]

Did a quick imdb check, from the time he would have had to film ep 2/3 he made

Catch me if you can
Aviator
Gangs of ny
Departed
Blood diamond

He maybe would have made 2 of those 5.....but he also built his resume up in that time to be in the goat discussion today.

Thank you leo for not accepting the role.

aviator gangs of new york, and bloodiamond were all meh

 

[jackswstd]

and apparently Lucas wanted to be a Jedi Knight..
you know..
but sam eventually got it..

Nope. Pac wanted to read for a role in Episode 1 but obviously he died before it could happen.

 

[ORDER_66]

That trilogy sucked. Would've ruined his discography