Leonardo DiCaprio Reveals Biggest Regret in Movie Career

Academy Award winner Leonardo DiCaprio has shared what role from an iconic ’90s movie he regrets not taking. This comes ahead of the September 26 release of DiCaprio’s highly anticipated action thriller, One Battle After Another, which hails from acclaimed director Paul Thomas Anderson.

One Battle After Another will see DiCaprio as a former revolutionary who was part of the vigilante group called the French 75. He must now find a way to protect his daughter from the consequences of his past. The movie is written and directed by Anderson, The cast also includes Sean Penn (Milk), Regina Hall (Girls Trip, O’Dessa), Alana Haim (Licorice Pizza), Teyana Taylor (A Thousand and One), Wood Harris (Remember the Titans), Benicio del Toro (Sicario, The French Dispatch), D.W. Moffett (Traffic), Chase Infiniti (Presumed Innocent), John Hoogenakker (Dopesick), and more.

What is Leonardo DiCaprio’s biggest career regret?

During an Esquire interview between Anderson and DiCaprio, the acclaimed filmmaker asked the A-list actor if he has any regrets about his movie career. The Revenant star admitted that his “biggest regret” was not signing on for the leading role in Anderson’s 1997 movie Boogie Nights, which gave the filmmaker his first Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay.

After DiCaprio passed on the role, his Basketball Diaries co-star Mark Wahlberg eventually landed the project. This would have been DiCaprio and Anderson’s first collaboration together before the upcoming One Battle After Another movie.

“I’ll say it even though you’re here: My biggest regret is not doing Boogie Nights. It was a profound movie of my generation,” DiCaprio shared. “I can’t imagine anyone but Mark in it. When I finally got to see that movie, I just thought it was a masterpiece. It’s ironic that you’re the person asking that question, but it’s true.”

Source: Comingsoon.net