He is one of Hollywood's most vocal climate advocates. Today, he is starring in Martin Scorsese's "Killers of the Flower Moon," presented at the Cannes Film Festival.
This is the story of Leonardo DiCaprio, who has been fighting to protect the planet for over 20 years. #Cannes2023.
This is the story of Leonardo DiCaprio, who has been fighting to protect the planet for over 20 years. #Cannes2023.
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00:00Now that you're becoming more popular, people are really kind of watching you. Does that bother you at all?
00:06Well, you know
00:08No, because of course if you're an actor and everything or anyone in the entertainment business, you're going to be watched
00:14I mean the first wrong move you do is going to be, you know, pushed all over the world
00:18And that's just something that comes along with being in the entertainment business
00:21And if you want to be entertaining, you can't complain about it, so
00:31I
00:39Always dreamed that I'd you know be an actor and be doing well, that's I mean I always had fantasies about that
00:51I grew up in this industry. I know this town so many of my friends are actors
00:55I know how hard it is to get work
00:57I know how lucky I was to be at the in the right place at the right time and had that not happened my
01:04My life would be drastically different
01:26You
01:31Thousands of climate scientists agree that global warming is not only the most threatening environmental problem
01:36But one of the greatest challenges facing all of humanity
01:41You
01:54I'm taking the role of a concerned citizen like everybody else
01:57I think like all of us do we see that there are dramatic changes happening to our planet
02:02It's it's hard not to certainly in the United States
02:06We are the ones that should set an example for the rest of the world
02:09We are the power most powerful democracy in the planet, but we're also the we're the we're the largest polluters
02:28As an actor I
02:30Pretend for a living I play fictitious characters often solving fictitious problems
02:36I believe that mankind has looked at climate change in that same way as if it were a fiction
02:43clean air and a livable climate are inalienable human rights and
02:48Solving this crisis is not a question of politics. It is a question of our own survival
03:00You
03:09If you do not believe in
03:12Climate change you do not believe in modern science or empirical truths and you will be on the wrong side of history
03:23Should not have a candidate who doesn't believe in modern science to be leading our country
03:31you
03:42There was an incredible ease and comfort getting to work alongside bad
03:47I mean we kind of grew up in the same generation got our start around the same time
03:51Leonardo is
03:54Just is is just very sincere. He's a very
03:59Sincere young man, and he
04:02He cares deeply he cares deeply about people he can he can he cares deeply about his friends
04:09and he cares deeply about what he does in the business and
04:14And about his craft
04:17There's kind of no joking around with him when it comes to the the work itself. He's as serious as he possibly can be
04:28You
04:58You