Leonardo DiCaprio says he will not step behind the digital camera out of respect for Martin Scorsese.
The One Battle After Another actor, who has starred in six motion pictures directed by the Oscar winner, shared his disinterest in filmmaking throughout a current dialog with Scorsese for TIME.
DiCaprio, 51, mentioned that his primary remorse in working with Scorsese, 83, is that he was “so focused” on being an actor however “would have loved to be much more of a voyeur.”
“Some people have asked me if I wanted to direct,” DiCaprio mentioned in the course of the Dec. 10 occasion, seen across the 11-minute mark of the video beneath. “I’m like, ‘I would never want to direct.’ I could never do anything close to what Martin Scorsese does. Why would I do that?”
“But if I look back on anything, I would have loved to have observed that process behind the camera a lot more,” he continued.
While the Academy Award winner will not be choosing up the digital camera, he has served as an government producer, together with for the Scorsese-directed Killers of the Flower Moon. DiCaprio additionally performed protagonist Ernest Burkhart in the 2023 historic drama.
DiCaprio is reportedly set to star in Scorsese’s subsequent drama, an adaptation of e book What Happens at Nightwhich may even function Jennifer Lawrence.
The actor additionally dominated out directing in a 2016 interview with Variety.
“I’ve been so blessed to work with some great filmmakers, that I’m probably cursed to probably ever work as a director myself,” DiCaprio said at the time. “I don’t assume I’d be capable to examine to what I’ve seen. There are so many issues that come into play if you make a film. I actually don’t understand how they do it.”