Robert De Niro’s first impression of Leonardo DiCaprio

Veteran star Robert De Niro knew Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio was special as soon as they met. The stars first met when DiCaprio auditioned for the 1993 drama This Boy’s Life, which also starred De Niro. The 80-year-old star and DiCaprio went on to work with each other on the 1996 drama Marvin’s Room and the 2023 western crime drama Killers of the Flower Moon.

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About their Killers of the Flower Moon characters, DiCaprio recently said: “I happened to have done a film titled This Boy’s Life where I had an abusive stepfather in De Niro. So it was this insanely coincidental, full circle, sort of similar relationship. It felt like I was stepping into the same or a similar character 30 years later, grown up.”