In the “masterpiece” (Leonardo DiCaprio), Mark Wahlberg played the leading role and literally impressed with size.
Leonardo DiCaprio is offered many roles, most of them rejected. But a cancellation still hurts him to this day and he now described it as a mistake.
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In the 1990s he was offered the leading role in “Boogie Nights”. In it he would have played the porn star Dirk Diggler. DiCaprio canceled because he had already signed for “Titanic”. Even if the Oscar hit became a game changer in Hollywood for him, he regrets his decision in an interview with “Esquire” explained.
The wound concluded a little that the actor now appears in a film by Paul Thomas Anderson. “One Battle After Another” will come to cinemas on September 25th. Anderson has long been one of the formative American film directors, but only after “Boogie Nights” and the following “Magnolia” he had his breakthrough – and also became a director who can lead the big stars like no other in Hollywood.
Leonardo DiCaprio raves about “Boogie Nights”
“Boogie Nights”, said DiCaprio in the conversation in which Anderson also took part, is one of the “great films of my generation”. And: “I can’t imagine anyone except Mark in this role. When I finally saw the film, I just thought it was great.”
Wahlberg’s figure Eddie becomes one of the hottest porn stars in a night club in “Boogie Nights” in a night club when he is discovered by filmmaker Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds) and literally physically ahead of other actors. In other roles, Julianne Moore, Heather Graham, Don Cheadle, John C. Reilly, William H. Macy and Philip Seymour Hoffman can also be seen in the sensitive time portrait.
Wahlberg had previously worked with Leonardo DiCaprio (“Jim Carroll – in the streets of New York”, 1995) and was also at his side in “The Departed” (2007). To date, “Boogie Nights” is considered its best acting performance. Both have been friends since the 90s.
In “One Battle After Another”, DiCaprio Bob Ferguson, a former revolutionary, plays hunted by police officer Steven Lockjaw (Sean Penn). As the Oscar winner also confirmed in the interview in “Esquire”, he had wanted to work with Anderson for 20 years, but only now found the role for him.