How Guillaume Canet became friends with Leonardo DiCaprio (it was not easy)

Guillaume Canet is not only the director of eight feature films, he is also an actor who has worked on equal terms with Leonardo DiCaprio. This is the story of their friendship, won the hard way in 1999 by Danny Boyle on the first day of the beach shoot.

in the program Nice gestureGuillaume Canet returned to his Wolf of Wall Street rematch with The Beach, in which he played a supporting role alongside Virgin Ledoyen opposite DiCaprio’s already Titanic and Romeo + Juliet star. And their first contact was… pretty cold:

“He’s doing something rotten”

“The day before the shoot, we’re rehearsing the drama on the beach, and everyone arrives and the assistant walks up to Danny Boyle and says, ‘Watch out, DiCaprio’s coming,’ so it’s all there, ‘He’s coming, he’s going. happen’ and we are with the boys Stomp And we all do percussion tests. And it’s his turn and he does something totally rotten.

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“And everyone claps: “That’s great! This is amazing!” And I’m watching this… and in the evening, I was doing a lot of boxing at that time, and I was training with the Italian actor who played in the movie. And I saw him come down with two of his bodyguards to do weight training. Looking at me from afar, he saw that it wasn’t I like it.”

Revenge the next day

And the next day, when DiCaprio arrives on set, he teases Guillaume Canet by replicating his boxer’s gestures and gently taps him on the shoulder, before the punch suddenly hurts the French actor a little more:

And then I turn around and BAM! I put one in the shoulder, where the bone hurts a lot. And there is a kind of silence on the set. Two guards who look at me like this: “No, he’s a complete idiot” (…) and then they got up, he died of laughter, and immediately it was: “Hey, you don’t want me tonight” I don’t want to come, we’re playing with friends and at that moment We became friends.

Guillaume Canet’s American Films

After Beach, Guillaume Canet will not work with DiCaprio again, but he can be seen in another English-language film “The Day the Ponies Come Back” in front of the camera of the American director Jerry Schatzberg during the same period.

Kahn returned to the United States in 2010 to film Last Night with Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington and Eva Mendes, then in 2013 to direct Blood Ties, an American remake of Blood Ties in which he starred alongside François Clouzet.