The Revenant: Did Leonardo DiCaprio Really Sleep in a Horse Corpse?

With Swiss cuckoo regulars, France 3 is (re)airing The Revenant. Released in 2016 and directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, a mystical and violent adventure film acclaimed by Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy, it is pure survival, a visceral experience in the most literal sense of the term.

According to DiCaprio, it was the most difficult shoot of his career, because the range of suffering the actor endured is quite insane, between temperatures that flirt with -30°C, emerging naked from a logically icy river, bison’s liver being swallowed raw. Although he is a vegetarian…

One sequence (by the way…) from the movie might surprise you. It is located around 1h46 into the movie. The exile, as he tries to escape on horseback, is shot in the back of his mount by an arrow before he falls off a cliff with the horse.

Waking up a short distance away from his poor animal, killed instantly after a fall, he is then obliged to disembowel and disembowel himself in order to inhabit the animal’s body if he so chooses. has a chance to survive. A blizzard that will surely kill him.

Memory sequence is the ultimate survival technique that exists. It was also used by Bear Grylls in a Season 2 episode Man Vs Wildwhere the latter settled in the body of a dead camel in the middle of the Sahara desert…

During the promotion of the film, DiCaprio – logically – emphasized his participation during the filming of the film. “I can name 30 or 40 sequences that were the most difficult tasks I’ve ever had to do. he told Yahoo Movies.

Was it the corpse he took refuge in? The answer is no. The film’s famous designer, Jack Fisk, explains that it was a creation, and the animal guts that Leo removed were a mixture of latex and hair. So he pays with his own mouth, because he is the one who goes inside naked; The scene was shot when it was very cold. It was worth the Oscar for the best actor!