51-year-old actor, film producer and one of the most famous environmental activists Leonardo DiCaprio was recognized as the artist of the year by Time magazine. This testifies not only to the recognition of his many years of work, but also to the success of the last film with his participation — “One Battle After Another” by Paul Thomas Anderson, where he played the main role.
“DiCaprio, who is now 51 years old, has built a career that many of his peers would envy.… An Oscar-nominated actor seven times and still receiving it has the gift of making seemingly wrong choices that turn out to be completely right in the end — perhaps this is just another way to show that he has good intuition and knows when to follow it. He works with people he trusts; he invests in projects he believes in. But there are also non—material factors: he has a face that we don’t get tired of looking at,” film critic Stephanie Zacharek writes in an article about the actor.
She stressed that despite 30 years of successful career, viewers still want to see DiCaprio on the screen, even in the role of a “battered revolutionary”, as in the movie ” One Battle After Another “.
DiCaprio never aspired to become a superstar, but there is no other way: now he has become one. The actor himself admitted that he had not fully figured out how to maneuver between preserving his personal life and the status of a public figure whose life is under intense scrutiny.
“I think my simple philosophy is to go out and do something only when you have something to say or something to show. Otherwise, just disappear and don’t show up for as long as possible,” DiCaprio revealed his secret.