Leonardo DiCaprio
Raped by a Bear in Fox Christmas Day Release
by Daniel Nussbaum 1 Dec 2015
Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s The Revenant has picked up
early Oscar buzz ahead of its Christmas Day release, but some viewers and
Academy voters could be put off by the film’s brutal violence — according to a
report from early screenings, Leonardo DiCaprio’s
character Hugh Glass gets raped and nearly mauled to death by a bear.
In an early scene in the gory survival-revenge film,
DiCaprio’s character is mauled by a bear and left for dead. According to the Drudge Report, the
bear flips DiCaprio onto his stomach and “thrusts and thrusts during the
explicit mauling.”
“He is raped – twice!” Drudge reported.
Later in the film, DiCaprio is reportedly forced to slice
open a horse and sleep inside its carcass to shelter himself from the elements.
The Drudge Report included a link
to an early audience report from the entertainment website Showbiz411, which
claimed that the bear “dry humped” DiCaprio’s character.
In an interview
with Yahoo Movies last month, DiCaprio said that filming the bear
scene was “pretty agonizing to do.”
“[Those scenes] — amongst many other sequences — were some
of the more difficult things I’ve ever had to do in my entire career,” the
41-year-old actor told Yahoo. “But the end result is going to be one
of the most immersive experiences audiences will ever have with what it would
be like to come face-to-face with an animal of that magnitude that is
incredibly primal. It is absolutely startling and shocking, and it is the
closest thing to documentary filmmaking — but in a completely stylized way that
a lot of people never experienced.”
According
to The Hollywood Reporter, several audience
members walked out of a pre-Thanksgiving Academy screening of The Revenant
due to the violence. The film’s level of brutality could affect its
award-season chances, as well as the award chances for Quentin Tarantino’s The
Hateful Eight, if viewers and Academy members are put off
by the violence.
DiCaprio will look to take home his first Best Actor Oscar
for his work in the film. He has previously been nominated three times for Best
Actor (The Aviator, Blood Diamond, The Wolf of Wall Street)
and once for Best Supporting Actor (What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?)
The Revenant is in theaters December 25.
Leonardo
DiCaprio
Leonardo DiCaprio
is a trustee at the Natural Resources
Defense Council, an actor in The
Revenant, and was a board member for Global Green USA.
Note: Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Natural Resources Defense
Council.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, Jonathan
Soros’s father, and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open
Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Roosevelt
Institute, Media Matters,
and the Sundance Institute.
Barbra
Streisand Foundation was a funder for
the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Barbra Streisand
is the founder of the Barbra Streisand
Foundation, and a William Morris
Endeavor Entertainment client.
Kathie Lee
Gifford is a William Morris Endeavor
Entertainment client, and Kylie
Jenner’s godmother.
Kylie Jenner Blasted by
Disabled Fans for Sexy Wheelchair Photo
Mikhail Gorbachev
is an advisory board member for the Wheelchair
Foundation, the founder of Green
Cross International, was the general secretary for the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and the president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
Global Green USA
is a US affiliate of Green Cross International.
Anna Eleanor
Roosevelt is an advisory board member for the Wheelchair Foundation, and and the chair for the Roosevelt Institute.
Jonathan
Soros is a senior fellow at the Roosevelt
Institute, George Soros’s son,
and was the vice chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Roosevelt Institute, the Natural
Resources Defense Council, Media Matters, and the Sundance Institute.
Leonardo DiCaprio
is a trustee at the Natural Resources
Defense Council, and was a board member for Global Green USA.
Global Green USA
is a US affiliate of Green Cross International.
Media Matters
monitors Fox News.
Fox
News is a division of the Fox
Broadcasting Company.
Peter
Liguori was the president of entertainment for the Fox Broadcasting Company, and is a director at Yahoo! Inc.
Hulu,
LLC is a content provider for the Fox
Broadcasting Company, and a content provider for the Sundance Channel.
Robert
Redford is a partner with the Sundance
Channel, the founder & president for the Sundance Institute, a trustee at the Natural Resources Defense Council, and an honorary board member for
Green Cross International.
Leonardo DiCaprio
is a trustee at the Natural Resources
Defense Council, an actor in The
Revenant, and was a board member for Global Green USA.
Global Green USA
is a US affiliate of Green Cross International.
Green Cross International
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