While Leonardo DiCaprio has fewer credits than some of his peers, he has consistently taken lead roles in ambitious projects that take somewhere in the vicinity of six month to shoot. When you factor in DiCaprio’s responsibilities outside of shooting—developing material, running a production company (Appian Way), preparing for roles, doing press—completing just one film per year would be a significant achievement. This is roughly the pace the actor has maintained since the success of Titanic, but he has doubled his output recently, completing six major films (Shutter Island, Inception, J. Edgar, Django Unchained, The Great Gatsby, The Wolf of Wall Street) in the last three years. “I am a bit drained,” DiCaprio told Germany’s Bild (as reported by The News International). “I’m now going to take a long, long break.”
It’s not clear what “long, long break” means exactly, but now that Martin Scorsese—DiCaprio’s most frequent collaborator—is in his ’70s, the actor will have to seize every opportunity to build on the body-of-work he has already accumulated with the legendary auteur (Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island, and The Wolf of Wall Street, which is currently in post-production). However, DiCaprio has one obsession that may trump his relationship with Scorsese: the environment. In his time away from movies, he plans to shift his focus back to this longstanding preoccupation, which he previously explored in the 2007 documentary The 11th Hour. “I would like to improve the world a bit,” he said. “I will fly around the world doing good for the environment. My roof is covered with solar panels. My car is electric. A normal person does not drive more than 50 kilometres a day. That can be done with a plug.”
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