Leonardo DiCaprio almost got the chance to play the heartthrob James Dean. 😍
, he was attached to direct a biopic about the"It was a brilliant screenplay. And then it’s [the question of] who the hell could play James Dean? And I found a chap who could play James Dean, but he was too young. It was Leo," Mann recalled."We did a screen test that’s quite amazing."
DiCaprio was 19 -- only five years younger than Dean when he died at 24 in a fiery car crash in September 1955 -- but still had a boyish and youthful look -- for the most part. "From one angle, he totally had it with him. I mean, it’s brilliance. He would turn his face in one direction and we see a vision of James Dean," Mann recalled of DiCaprio's screen test."Then he’d turn his face another direction and it’s no, that’s a young kid."
Mann said he felt DiCaprio would be absolutely perfect for the project in three years' time, but Mann decided he had to move on to a different project because he couldn't imagine shooting the Dean biopic without DiCaprio.
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