Leonardo DiCaprio has spoken about his upbringing and how it’s helped him stay clean in Hollywood.
The Wolf of Wall Street actor, who first appeared on television in 1989, said that his early years in a rundown Hollywood neighbourhood prevented him from turning out like many child stars.
He told the Los Angeles Times: “There was a major prostitution ring on my street corner, crime and violence everywhere.
“It really was like Taxi Driver in a lot of ways. I grew up very poor and I got to see the other side of the spectrum.”
DiCaprio added: “I’ve never done drugs. That’s because I saw this stuff literally every day when I was 3 or 4 years old.
“So Hollywood was a walk in the park for me. I’d go to parties and it was there, and yeah, there’s that temptation.”
The actor recently opened up about his drug-taking scenes in The Wolf of Wall Street as stockbroker Jordan Belfort.
He said he was coached by the real Belfort – on whose memoirs the Martin Scorsese movie is based – on how to act after taking a “tremendous” amount of Quaaludes, a drug traditionally used to help aid sleep.
“I video taped him on the floor, rolling around, and he really articulated to me that you have every intention of going to a certain destination, but your body doesn’t go along with you,” DiCaprio explained.
“We shot it for a week, and it was a lot of chiropractic work for me because it was incredibly painful.”
Source: Digital Spy
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