Would you rather have your whole life photographed like Kim Kardashian or keep your private life private?With Leonardo DiCaprio's new movie, "Wolf of Wall Street" topping out at the box office, I'm reminded of an article I read about him in Esquire last May. They called him the world's most famous movie star. Interesting!
Especially since he's one of the celebrities who shuns the limelight.
By the way, the article started out with a little vignette about George Clooney. He was to meet the editor of Esquire a while back at the magazine's headquarters. The editor went down to meet Clooney at the door. He said when Clooney stepped out of his limo everything on the street came to a screeching halt. Clooney kept his head down and walked briskly to the door, supposedly not overly concerned. The editor, on the other hand, was kind of traumatized.
Clooney uses his celebrity to further his causes. Some others, like DiCaprio, try to stay out of the limelight except when publicizing a movie.
So what's it like to have spent most of your life constantly photographed and hounded by paparazzi? I can't imagine. Like Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio has been famous since childhood. After making "Titanic" in 1997 he became, arguably, the world's most famous movie star. But we know almost nothing about him. He doesn't seek publicity.
In a recent article about "Wolf of Wall Street," DiCaprio was quoted as saying "None of that is a part of my life. And by the way, the stuff that he (the Wall Street Wolf) did is so beyond comprehension of anything I could imagine."
But, beyond this DiCaprio never discusses his personal life in interviews.
So would I like to be super famous? Absolutely not. How about you?
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