Video:Leonardo DiCaprio Inception Interview
with Rebecca MurrayLeonardo DiCaprio stars in Christopher Nolan and Warner Bros Pictures' 'Inception', easily one of the most anticipated releases of 2010. At the LA premiere, DiCaprio spoke about Nolan's vision and how the film doesn't talk down to its audience.
Transcript:Leonardo DiCaprio Inception Interview
Rebecca Murray from About.com Hollywood Movies at the Los Angeles Premiere of Warner Bros Pictures' Inception.
Leonardo DiCaprio - 'Cobb' in Inception
It's not just an effects film, it's very much a character-driven film. How important was that for you?Leonardo DiCaprio: "Of the utmost importance. I've never done a film even in the science fiction genre, so for me it was kind of important to have characters that even though they go into these four different stages of the dreamscape, they're very grounded in a kind of an emotional reality. And my character has a very specific cathartic journey that he goes on in this film to come to terms with his past and the love of his wife in the dreamscape. And we worked a lot on it. We really spent three months just talking about this film."
This must be one of the hardest movies you've ever had to actually promote without giving too much away.
Leonardo DiCaprio: "It has been but I think that that has been an amazing experience, just as far as publicity is concerned because I like that this film is shrouded in a little bit of mystery. I like that there are a lot of questions about it. And I also feel it's a thinking person's film, and people will extract their own sort of logic from it and have their own interpretation of it, and those are the types of films I'd love to be a part of more often."
Would you say that Chris Nolan treats his audience like grown ups and doesn't tell the story for them?
Leonardo DiCaprio: "I think so. We were very conscious of that. We had lots of discussions about the intricacy of this plot, how he really combines so many different story structures together. And he was very specific about saying, 'I don't want to underestimate the audience. I want to challenge them and I want to encompass everything that I can spectacle-wise, special effects-wise, but emotionally and plot structure-wise it has to be everything.' This is a grand culmination of thought for him, and I think he pulled it off with flying colors. I really do."
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