By Baishaly Roy
The Titanic heartthrob and Oscar winner Leonardo DiCaprio was once not even on a director’s shortlist. Yes, back in the 90s, when DiCaprio wasn’t the Hollywood king yet, a studio didn’t even consider him worth paying for.
However, Sharon Stone stood up for him and saw something that the studio clearly missed. In fact, she believed in his talent so much that she paid almost half of his salary from his own pocket.
The studio was none other than TriStar Pictures, which passed on Leonardo DiCaprio for a movie that eventually tanked at the box office in 1995. And decades later, both Leo and Stone have opened up about the story.
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Why Did Sharon Stone Pay Leonardo DiCaprio’s Salary?
When Sam Raimi was working on The Quick and the Dead back in 1995, Stone played a female gunslinger who enters a deadly duel competition against the ruthless outlaw John Herod, aka Gene Hackman. And Leonardo DiCaprio was being considered for the role of Herod’s son, Fee “The Kid” Herod.
But DiCaprio wasn’t the only one auditioning for the role. There were several teenage actors against him, and Stone, who was actively involved in the film, had a say in casting. Decades later, in her memoir The Beauty of Living, she recalled that DiCaprio stood apart from …read more
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