Leonardo DiCaprio worries film theaters may turn out to be like ‘jazz bars’: ‘Do folks nonetheless have the urge for food?’

• Leonardo DiCaprio is frightened concerning the movie business "altering at a lightning pace."
• The Titanic star wonders if "folks nonetheless have the urge for food" to see motion pictures in theaters within the streaming period.
• DiCaprio additionally fears cinemas may turn out to be "silos — like jazz bars" for a extra area of interest viewers.

Leonardo DiCaprio is frightened about the way forward for cinema.

In an period of studio mergers, streaming behemoths, and decreased field workplace returns, the Catch Me if You Can actor wonders concerning the viability of theatrical filmmaking.

"It's altering at a lightning pace," DiCaprio stated of the movie business in a brand new interview with U.Ok. outlet The Occasions. "We're an enormous transition. First, documentaries disappeared from cinemas. Now, dramas solely get finite time and folks wait to see it on streamers. I don't know."

The Wolf of Wall Road star stays hopeful that motion pictures will all the time seize the eye of devoted followers, however he fears that the medium, or a minimum of the moviegoing expertise, may turn out to be so area of interest that it slips out of mainstream tradition.

"Do folks nonetheless have the urge for food?" he requested. "Or will cinemas turn out to be silos — like jazz bars?"

DiCaprio, who has maintained his stardom showing in status dramas from auteur filmmakers like Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino, desires the business to proceed to help artistically minded administrators.

"I simply hope sufficient people who find themselves actual visionaries get alternatives to do distinctive issues sooner or later which can be seen within the cinema," the As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood star stated. "However that continues to be to be seen."

DiCaprio's newest film, One Battle After One other, is his first collaboration with Paul Thomas Anderson, who beforehand helmed acclaimed movies like Boogie Nights and There Will Be Blood. The Oscar-buzzy challenge paperwork a Latin American neighborhood coming into battle with militant authorities brokers.

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DiCaprio stated the residents of El Paso, Texas, the place the film was shot, had been comfortable to participate in a piece of resistance. "Our movie has Immigration and Customs Enforcement–like officers coming to get my daughter and we are actually in a border city the place the specter of all of that’s effervescent," he recalled to The Occasions. "We wanted extras to create a mob and go, 'Viva la revolucion!' All of them stated, 'Let's go.'"

Theactor portrays ex-revolutionary Bob Ferguson, who spends nearly all of the film looking for his lacking daughter, Willa (Chase Infiniti). Although the movie depicts political violence by leftist revolutionaries, right-wing militias, and white supremacists, DiCaprio was unconcerned with its politics when taking over the position.

"It by no means even occurred to me to not be a part of the movie due to its political undertones," the Titanic star stated. "And I don't suppose there may be any particular political agenda or ideology hooked up to it. We've had reactions from each the left and proper, which, to me, says one thing. And anyway, on the finish of the movie, Bob is only a dad who's there for his daughter."

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One Battle After One other premiered in theaters on Sept. 26, 2025. It’s streaming now on HBO Max.

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