In an industry obsessed with franchises and superheroes, critics have suggested that Leo might be the last true film star
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Is
Leonardo DiCaprio Hollywood’s last movie star? That was the thrust of a recent
Hollywood Reporter feature, suggesting he stands alone as an actor whose name is a hallmark of a movie’s quality in itself, who rarely has a flop, and who doesn’t put himself about too much – Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood is his first movie since 2015’s The Revenant. “He is arguably the only global superstar left in a film industry in which an interchangeable group of actors regularly suit up in spandex or brandish a lightsaber for the latest billion-dollar earner,” the magazine argues, comparing DiCaprio’s pre-eminence with would-be peers such as Will Smith,
Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Downey Jr.
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